Family affection needs propinquity and service to develop it.
He enjoyed the opera, the color and music, the propinquity of Kitty.
The propinquity of a pretty girl and a lonely young man has founded more than one story.
Something told him that his morning was over, his morning filled with the happiness of propinquity and stolen looks, with the happiness that is half spiritual and half gloating.
The same notion of the similarity and propinquity of the heavenly field is illustrated by the story of the Etruscan priest, who by his charms brought down to earth a bit of heaven whereon to build his temple.
It was in his mind that Curtis cultivated Sarah because of Sarah's propinquity of a certain paper which the man had reason to believe was in Bob Allen's safe.
Propinquity is a tremendous force in the life of humanity.
Whereof the first conteyneth the discourse of a civill lawyer, how and in what manner propinquity of blood is to be preferred.
But he pinned his whole faith on youth and propinquity to arrange matters before then, and dismissed it from his mind.
To be related to Mrs. Bertram was to be of kin to the lands of Singleside, and was a propinquity of which each relative present at that moment was particularly jealous.
As this precedence is supposed to be regulated by propinquity to the defunct, the undertaker, however skilful a master of these lugubrious ceremonies, did not escape giving some offence.
By the word propinquity is indicated an influence exerted by Purusha on Prakriti, and this, where material objects are concerned, would be brought about by their propinquity.
So that, in that balanced equilibrium of Prakriti, a change has taken place by the mere propinquity of, or presence of, the Purusha.
The propinquity of the magnet makes the soft iron a magnet; the qualities of the magnet are produced in it, it manifests poles, it attracts steel, it attracts or repels the end of an electric needle.
So close to the Samkhyan is his exposition, that another idea would make it purely Samkhyan; he has not yet supplied that propinquity of consciousness which the Samkhya postulates in its ultimate duality.
An internal change has occurred in both cases from the propinquity of another object.
When Purusha is in propinquity to Matter, then there is a change in Matter--not outside, but in it.
In such ways Brooklyn attested the advantages of its propinquity to New York, while remaining, as regards Ronald's duty to his father, as remote and inaccessible as Wingfield.
For he was adventurously happy in his propinquityto that simple and sincere creature.
To those who have never seen it the very fact, perhaps, of its propinquity to the industrial districts, and the familiarity of its name, might suggest a scene if not actually overrated at any rate so overrun as to impair its charms.
The Egyptians were right about there being a woman in the cat and a cat in a woman, for the two creatures need to feel real within the propinquity of touch.
But then the stranger had died immediately afterwards, under mysterious circumstances, and had this not befallen why then he, John Seward Mervyn would never have become aware of the existence or propinquity of his niece.
This directed the attention of the Committee to the effect on morality of the propinquity of the sexes in schools.
The evidence that the propinquity of boys and girls at co-educational schools contributed to sexual delinquency was not convincing.
Living in immediate propinquity to the happy lovers would of course be intolerable.
There was no talk at all for a long time; the pleasure of sheer propinquity was too great.
Trotwood sat in the same row as Harry, two or three seats away from him--the acquaintance was not even of the type that alphabetical propinquity is responsible for.
If the conditions under which Wales came into partnership were different and the date earlier, that, again, was partly due to its propinquity to the heart of England.
Julius made these meals as long as he dared, so yearning he was for the news of the dear home life below, so tantalized by its propinquity and yet its remoteness.
But to those of us to whom life is pretty much of a compromise anyway, there is something in mere propinquity to wealth that is like smelling into a tumbler with its sides still wet from some rare old chartreuse.
He evidently thought that her propinquity was enough for the present, let the future bring what it might.
Ellis had been lonely, strictly speaking, for propinquity to others was certain when they were in the same room with him.
Mary began to ask herself the cause of her sudden interest in this stranger, but she soon concluded that it must be solely due to his propinquity to Ralph during the latter's illness.
