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Sentences starting with intimacy

Intimacy with domains was new to him, and he began to experience an involuntary feeling of restraint which was new to him likewise, and made him chafe in spite of himself. [9]

Sentences ending with intimacy

Why, then she will certainly take them in hand personally, or I don't know her as well as I ought to, after all these years of intimacy. [5]
Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or undertow, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy. [9]
On coming to town, he found his country-acquaintance in a social position which seemed to discourage his continued intimacy. [6]
There were at the utmost, I think, not more than half a dozen with whom I was on terms of intimacy. [10]
They were fond of him, grateful to him, treating him with a frank camaraderie that had in it not the slightest touch of condescension, but Ditmar would have been the first to recognize that there were limits to the intimacy. [9]
Mr. Cooke was not a person who made any great distinction between the three degrees, acquaintance, friendship, and intimacy. [9]
It is an illustration of the warping effect of friendship upon the critical faculty that his opinion of Moore at this time was totally changed by subsequent intimacy. [4]
I didn't know, I didn't care to define it,--a renewal of her friendship, of our intimacy. [9]
It went through her mind that they must have told Miss Vance they knew her; and perhaps they had boasted of her intimacy. [8]
From trifling details he had succeeded in forming a more accurate idea of Pulcheria than the leech himself had gained in years of intimacy. [10]

Short sentences using intimacy

The rector modestly disclaimed intimacy. [9]

Sentences containing intimacy two or more times

The nature of his intimacy with the banker, if intimacy it might be called, might have surprised his other parishioners if they could have been hidden spectators of one of these dinners. [9]
This was the beginning of a new intimacy with Nancy, resembling the old intimacy yet differing from it. [9]

More example sentences with the word intimacy in them

Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
That this intimacy would have resulted in marriage, or an offer of marriage, if the lady's affections had not been preoccupied, the Fosters seem to have believed. [4]
Emerson's long intimacy with him taught him to give an outline to many natural objects which would have been poetic nebulae to him but for this companionship. [6]
Margaret's growing intimacy with Carmen was one of the sources of her uneasiness. [4]
I know very well that Count Nicholas is too young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. [2]
For the story was, that he was paying his court to the young lady whenever he got an opportunity, and that he was cultivating an intimacy with Miss Cynthia Badlam. [6]
And yet I was sure that I loved Maude; in a surprisingly short period I had become accustomed to her, dependent on her ministrations and the normal, cosy intimacy of our companionship. [9]
Miss Victoria Flint was sated beside Mr. Meader's bed, and qualified friendship had evidently been replaced by intimacy since Austen's last visit, for Mr. Meader was laughing, too. [9]
For Mr. Varney was right,--one could feel enthusiasm for Theodore Watling; and my growing intimacy with him, the sense that I was having a part in his career, a share in his success, became for the moment the passion of my life. [9]
Hearing that Bezukhov was in Orel, Willarski, though they had never been intimate, came to him with the professions of friendship and intimacy that people who meet in a desert generally express for one another. [2]
Not that she was formal,--or I: our intercourse seemed eloquent of an intimacy in a tantalizing state of suspense. [9]
One thing he was certain Jasmine did not know--the intimacy between Fellowes and Al'mah. [11]
The lines are unaffected and very touching, full of that deep affection which united the brothers in the closest intimacy, and of the tenderest love for the mother whom he was leaving to see no more. [6]
He says: "If Turner carried off his wife to Devonshire he brought her back and Shelley was staying with her and her mother on terms of cordial intimacy in March, 1814. [5]
To tell the truth, they had looked with little favour upon the intimacy which had sprung up between him and those tyrannical potentates, Messrs. Botcher and Bascom, and many who had the courage of their convictions expressed then very frankly. [9]
I came presently to the conclusion that this renewed intimacy did not trouble her--which was what I wished to believe. [9]
Restraint fell upon them, brought about by the memory of the intimacy of their former meeting, further complicated on Hodder's part by his new attitude toward her father, and his finding her in the company, of all persons, of Mr. Bentley. [9]
Her tone bespoke the subtle intimacy that always sprang up between them, despite bars and conventions. [9]
In spite of the intimacy which I knew existed between them, in my presence at least Mr. Gorse's manner was little different with Mr. Watling than it was with other men. [9]
Their cards preserve the intimacy and keep the acquaintanceship intact. [5]
The intimacy among the different members of the society was so close that, beyond a courtesy of manner that never failed, the tendency was to resist the approach of any stranger as a 'gene'. [6]
It is true that everything in his intimacy with Susan Posey, so far, might come under the general head of friendship; but he was conscious that something more was in both their thoughts. [6]
I am not sure that he ever visited Mount Vernon, but after Washington's death Debree's intimacy with our first President became a more and more important part of his life and conversation. [4]
You walked to study life and to reflect and to enjoy your intimacy with nature, but also to see our friend Zoe and her home. [11]
Afternoon tea was still rather a new custom with us, more of a ceremony than a meal; and as Nancy handed me my cup and the thinnest of slices of bread and butter I found the intimacy of the situation a little disquieting. [9]
He had contrived somehow to give her a sense of intimacy with the people who lived thereabout--his own friends. [9]
Apparently their intercourse, so long as it should continue, was destined to be on the basis of intimacy in which it had begun. [9]
Her intimacy with Selby was open gossip, and there were winks and thrustings of the tongue in any group of men when she passed by. [5]
He himself carefully scanned each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. [2]
You see the same thing in trees whose bark is cut, and in melons that have had only one summer's intimacy with squashes. [4]
It could be said that for her own reputation the situation required this consummation of the intimacy of the season. [4]
So bridle your restive Alexandrian tongues, and let me tell you that my colleague from Rome is in the closest intimacy with Hadrian. [10]
Nothing but the profound intimacy which exists between myself and the individual reader whose eyes are on this page would induce me to reveal what I was told of this conversation. [6]
It was nature's own school wherein was to be gained the fullest intimacy with her spirit. [4]
They were again on that plane of mutual understanding and intimacy for which neither could account. [9]
Indeed they were on terms of intimacy, for the soldier was a leader amid the nobles who had conspired to dethrone Pharaoh. [10]
In the course of your intimacy he must have made you feel what we now feel for him. [5]
The unwonted intimacy of the moment, invoking as it did an endless reflection of other similar moments in their future life together, was in its effect overwhelming, bringing with it at last a conviction not to be denied. [9]
In the intimacy of the little room I felt as if I had known her always, and again, that she was as distant from me and my life as the court from which she had come. [9]
I have no occasion in these pages to mention my intimacy with the sons and daughters of those good friends of the Carvels', Colonel Lloyd and Mr. Bordley. [9]
To submit was not only to lose her liberty, to become a dependent, but also and inevitably, she thought, to lose Ditmar's love.... No experience, however, is emotionally continuous, nor was their intimacy by any means wholly on this plane of conflict. [9]
If there was not an instinct for all three of them in that meeting, an unreasoning tendency toward a closer intimacy, then Jane Withersteen believed she had been subject to a queer fancy. [13]
Mr. Bixby could never disabuse his mind of a certain interpretation which he put on the storekeeper's intimacy with Jethro. [9]
The intimacy of mother and daughter was complete, except on a single point. [6]
They had many moments of intimacy during that fort night, though none in which the plumb of their conversation descended to such a depth. [9]
It was this material use to which she was so largely assigned, almost involuntarily but none the less truly, that had destroyed all of the finer, dearer, more delicate intimacy invading his mind sometimes, more or less vaguely, where Faith was concerned. [11]
In 1837 they married sisters, and this cemented their intimacy, which continued to Stackpole's death in 1847. [6]
And now for many months I have been living in daily relations of intimacy with one who seems nearer to me since he has left us than while he was here in living form and feature. [6]
But the young man is exceptionally fortunate who enjoys the intimacy of such a teacher. [3]
It was not long before Cyprian perceived that he could never pass a certain boundary of intimacy with Myrtle. [6]
And now--as he listened to her voice, with its exquisite low tones and modulations, as he sat there in this sacred intimacy, perchance to be the last in his life, he became dazed. [9]
And he resented it, and was "huffy" when he was with her, and ran her errands, and brought her gossip, and bragged of his intimacy with the lovely creature among the fellows at Newspaper Row. [5]
He had been invited to their home, intimacy had grown, and afterwards, stricken with a severe illness, he had been taken into the household and kept there till he was well again. [11]
Whether this incipient intimacy were ominous or propitious, whether there were involved in it a germ (engendered by a radical difference of temperament) capable of developing into future conflict, he could not now decide. [9]
After days of intimacy one wonders to see that it is still in about as strong force as ever. [5]
If she was inaccessible to others, she had the air of being peculiarly inaccessible to me--the more so because some of the superficial relics of our intimacy remained, or rather had been restored. [9]
And to Austen, in the twilight in front of Jabe Jenney's, the affair might well have assumed the proportions of an intimacy of long standing rather than that of the chance acquaintance of an hour. [9]
There we lived in the closest intimacy, sharing meals and outdoor exercise. [6]
Abundant circumstantial evidence I obtained: Wilkinson's intimacy with Miro was well known, and I likewise learned that a cipher existed between them. [9]
He wanted to hurt, because Mazarine had only a short time before dispensed with his services as a lawyer, and had blocked the way to that intimacy which he had hoped to establish with Tralee and its mistress. [11]
But I was his intimate; and I took care to make the intimacy grow. [5]
They evidently regarded his growing intimacy with the banker with approval, as in some sort a supreme qualification for a rector of St. John's, and a proof of unusual abilities. [9]
She had cleared her skirts of any possible implication of intimacy with the late Mrs. Randolph, and done so with a master touch. [9]
Captain Daniel would have me omit nothing,--my intimacy with Mr. Fox, the speech at Brooks's Club, and the riding-match at Hyde Park. [9]
Nor would she have done so now, notwithstanding the intimacy established at Newport, if Carmen had not happened in that day, when Margaret was still hurt and excited, and skillfully and most sympathetically extracted from her the cause of the mood she found her in. [4]
She saw no harm in having a man as a friend on a basis of intimacy which drew the line at any possibility of divorce-court proceedings. [11]
In Vilna she had formed an intimacy with a young foreign prince. [2]
Of late he had exhibited a new trait that tormented Princess Mary more than anything else; this was his ever-increasing intimacy with Mademoiselle Bourienne. [2]
While my Uncle Grafton was in the house I had opportunity of marking the intimacy which existed between him and the rector of St. Anne's. [9]
All antipathy had gone; there was a strange eager intimacy between the jurymen and himself. [11]
The only way for them is to keep up an unbroken intimacy with the wolf; then they can manage him somehow. [8]
They had time for a great deal of joking at the office during the season of leisure which penetrates in August to the very heart of business, and they all got on terms of greater intimacy if not greater friendliness than before. [8]
He felt her fingers touch his breast as they did that night the iron seared him; and out of this first intimacy of his soul he wrote: "What is the token? [11]
These visits greatly extended his acquaintance with the leading men of the country; his political leanings did not prevent an intimacy with the President's family, and Mrs. Madison and he were sworn friends. [4]
All the more exasperating, therefore, was a propinquity creating an intimacy without substance, or without the substance he craved for she had magically become for him a sort of enveloping, protecting atmosphere. [9]
Would that intimacy ever be renewed? [9]
Nobody knows New England who is not on terms of intimacy with one of its elms. [6]
Before, in those delicious moments with her, seemingly pilfered from the angry gods, the sense of intimacy had been deep; deep, because robbing the gods together, they had shared the feeling of guilt, had known that retribution would coma. [9]
Is there any danger of one or the other growing tired of the intimacy, and becoming willing to get rid of it, like a garment which has shrunk and grown too tight? [6]
What is the condition of things in the growing intimacy of Number Five and the Tutor? [6]
Helene was faced by a new problem--how to preserve her intimacy with both without offending either. [2]
They asked Mrs. Brice if she knew this and that person of consequence in Boston, with whom they claimed relationship or intimacy. [9]
Soon the acquaintance became an intimacy, and their lives a series of visits to each other. [9]
In 1802 he became a law clerk in the office of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, and began that enduring intimacy with the refined and charming Hoffman family which was so deeply to influence all his life. [4]
He could never be away from her long, day or evening; and in a short time their intimacy was the town talk. [5]
The second season at Wildbad, thanks to the increased intimacy with the friends whose acquaintance we had made there, was even more enjoyable than the first. [10]
Henry Brierly was at the Dilworthy's constantly and on such terms of intimacy that he came and went without question. [5]
Her colour deepened as the sound of his voice brought back the lapsed memories of the old intimacy. [9]
A strange feeling, as of secret intimacy, never felt before where Kitty was concerned, passed through him now, and he was suddenly conscious that things were not as they had ever been; that the old impersonal comradeship had vanished. [11]
Yes, there is another, and a very obvious supposition--namely, that Shakespeare was himself a lawyer, well versed in his trade, versed in all the ways of the courts, and living in close intimacy with judges and members of the Inns of Court. [5]
For the nobleman and the courtier an intimacy with Greek, Latin, and Italian was essential to "good form. [4]
She did this and that for him, and she was no doubt on such terms of intimacy with him that they were really part of each other's life in a scheme of domesticity unlike any boarding-house organization she had ever known. [11]
And Number Five and her young friend the Tutor,--have they kept on in their dangerous intimacy? [6]
Their intimacy was accepted as an established fact, and nothing but the difference in their ages prevented the conclusion that it was love, and not mere friendship, which brought them together. [6]
There was still a marked separation between the Dutch and the English residents, though the Irvings seem to have been on terms of intimacy with the best of both nationalities. [4]
If there was a little talk about Jack's intimacy elsewhere, was there anything uncommon in that? [4]
Cyprian was himself a little shy, and rather held to Myrtle through his sister than by any true intimacy directly with herself. [6]
Shorter came in, a lady with whom Honora's intimacy had been of steady growth. [9]
Although Driscoll was a freethinker and Howard a strong and determined Presbyterian, their warm intimacy suffered no impairment in consequence. [5]
He had formed a deep and tender passion for Matilda Hoffman, the second daughter of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, in whose family he had long been on a footing of the most perfect intimacy, and his ardent love was fully reciprocated. [4]

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