Connexion

Examples

• For though there appear no manner of connexion betwixt motion or thought, the case is the same with all other causes and effects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The necessary connexion betwixt causes and effects is the foundation of our inference from one to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This is a connexion which offers nothing but good. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was an unsuitable connexion, and did not produce much happiness. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Love and hatred might have been unattended with any such desires, or their particular connexion might have been entirely reversed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Where they remark the resemblance, it operates after the manner of a relation, by producing a connexion of ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Laying a marked emphasis on most unfortunate as if the words were rather descriptive of his connexion with Mr. Vholes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On my pointing out the great impropriety of the word, especially in connexion with his parent (for he added sulkily By her! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• With an air of not minding Eugene at all, he feels that the subject is not altogether a safe one in that connexion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Crawford's steadiness was honoured, and Fanny was praised, and the connexion was still the most desirable in the world. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Consider what a connexion it is likely to be. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If he is not Tom Gradgrind's colleague before long, I believe we shall at least hear of him in connexion with one of our neighbouring towns. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But I have so much to think of, in connexion with Borrioboola-Gha and it is so necessary I should concentrate myself that there is my remedy, you see. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This quality depends on several different circumstances, which have little connexion with each other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He was a tearful boy, and broke into such deplorable lamentations, when a cessation of our connexion was hinted at, that we were obliged to keep him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I understand you--and a very proper plan it is for a person at your time of life, with such limited means and indifferent connexions. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• There is not a better girl in the world, and you do not want for fortune; and as to her connexions, they are more than good. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I speak of affording some clue to his connexions, or to where he came from, or to anything concerning him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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