Connections
[kə'nektʃənz]
Examples
- One has no more connections here. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Bringing these connections or implications to consciousness enhances the meaning of the experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Because I am bound, in the harmless character of a single man, to relieve my married connections of all their own troubles. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The feeder connections were all at the front of the building, and the general voltage control apparatus was on the floor above. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But it does not lead to new perceptions of bearings and connections; it limits rather than widens the meaning-horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So far from having high connections I have no connections at all, and I come of the scum of the earth. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- By certain changes they made in the thread carrier and connections, they were enabled to make a double looped stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to--she is lost for ever. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The important thing is that the fact be grasped in its social connections--its function in life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A maximum reading can then be made by manipulating the flexible connections, and this will show whether the two circuits are in accord. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We may approach it, so to speak, from any one of the angles provided by its connections. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What a character for anybody with decent connections to show himself in! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The outer masonry walls are built around the skeleton frame, as seen in Fig. 236, and the details of connections for the floor members appear in Fig. 237. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In other words, what he learns are connections. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She was spending the winter in the city with connections, the family of Colonel John O'Fallon, well known in St. Louis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Whatever my connections may be, said Elizabeth, if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to _you_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Besides, I am resolved I will have a home and connections. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The vessel then moves forward slowly until it is in the entrance chamber, when lines are thrown out on the other side and connections are made with towing locomotives on the side wall. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Generally speaking we do not suppose them specifically different; but only attribute to them different relations, connections and durations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An activity which brings education or instruction with it makes one aware of some of the connections which had been imperceptible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He may, in effect, have repudiated his connections, proudly, impatiently, sarcastically (I make the concession of both words); but he has them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A truly general aim broadens the outlook; it stimulates one to take more consequences (connections) into account. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I came to tell him that her connections made her not an object for the school, and that she must not attend any more. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- With these conductors and pipes must also be furnished manholes, junction-boxes, connections, and a host of varied paraphernalia insuring perfect general distribution. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers' names and connections. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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