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  • We tried mentioning our proximity to Afghanistan or Iraq, but it was no use.†   (source)
  • At such proximity the Count could see that she was even more beautiful than he had suspected; and haughtier too.†   (source)
  • Middletown is one of the older incorporated towns in Ohio, built during the 1800s thanks to its proximity to the Miami River, which empties directly into the Ohio.†   (source)
  • Lale sways, unbalanced by her proximity.†   (source)
  • Our close proximity to GSS eliminates any possibility of system lag.†   (source)
  • A biologically sound zoo enclosure— whether cage, pit, moated island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium—is just another territory, peculiar only in its size and in its proximity to human territory.†   (source)
  • I'll add a proximity parameter and remove the title weighting.†   (source)
  • Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.†   (source)
  • As ever when he found himself in close proximity to Muggles going about their daily business, Mr Weasley was hard put to contain his enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • It's the fact that when you spend all day in proximity to someone, there is no escape from their moods.†   (source)
  • He chose his home for two reasons: (1) its proximity to the high school (he wanted to be near kids; he had none of his own) and (2) "Senor Saguaro."†   (source)
  • They lived in such close proximity and moved in so many of the same circles that they felt obliged to remain on cordial terms.†   (source)
  • I guess she thought the very proximity of a Jew brought bad luck.†   (source)
  • MY FATHER HAD LIKED CAL ERICSON, but he disapproved of him, and I am often astonished when I look back and realize how our proximity to the Ericsons shaped all of my opinions and expectations.†   (source)
  • Hester's roommates were back, however; if Owen stayed at Hester's, there was no question regarding the bed in which he spent the night—whether he and Hester "did it" or not, they were at least familiar with the intimate proximity that Hester's queen-size mattress forced upon them.†   (source)
  • Both Alyss and Redd may have been strengthened by their proximity to the Heart Crystal, but Alyss could see that she was the stronger of the two.†   (source)
  • What about the proximity radar?†   (source)
  • It reminds him of Ruth, of the way they, too, had once lived in such close proximity as strangers.†   (source)
  • This presented a serious problem for Tita: she wanted to get away from the ranch—and the proximity of Pedro—as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • One second later, the Ground Proximity Warning System called out in its electronic voice: "Five hundred [feet]."†   (source)
  • The proximity of his mouth to mine weathers his patience.†   (source)
  • We hear ROM's voice from off—he's clearly in close proximity.†   (source)
  • Then the proximity alarm flashed red.†   (source)
  • We researched it—even got as far as filing the papers to get me posted at Fort Bragg for airborne training—but when I spoke to the doctor again, I was told that my proximity wouldn't do much to help my dad and that I should consider placing him in an extended care facility.†   (source)
  • The proximity of his body to mine made voicing the thousands of emotions raging inside of me impossible.†   (source)
  • Yet because of their proximity, it was inevitable that they learned about each other.†   (source)
  • Without hesitation and showing no regard for his own life, he threw himself onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates who were lying in close proximity.†   (source)
  • Her bluish face creased with a pressure closing in, the near proximity of the other-than-life that crowds down around the edges of living.†   (source)
  • He reached across to open my door for me, and his sudden proximity sent my heart into frenzied palpitations.†   (source)
  • They had absolutely nothing in common with my parents, except proximity, which had led to eighteen years of being neighbors and our best family friends.†   (source)
  • His hair had turned gray, his mustache nearly white, but his eyes were as blue as ever, bluer at this instant by proximity to the sea.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare is very much a product of his time in suggesting that one's proximity to or distance from God is manifested in external signs.†   (source)
  • The company had so much going on, so much humanity and good feeling, and was pioneering on all fronts, that she knew she was being improved just by being in the Circlers' proximity.†   (source)
  • At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.†   (source)
  • I learned to make do with your proximity.†   (source)
  • With a street-fighter's unerring instincts, Comrade Pillai knew that his straitened circumstances (his small, hot house, his grunting mother, his obvious proximity to the toiling masses) gave him a power over Chacko that in those revolutionary times no amount of Oxford education could match.†   (source)
  • My father, appreciating his employer's position, volunteered immediately to take the General, and thus was obliged to suffer intimate proximity for four days with the man he detested.†   (source)
  • Imre also benefited by its proximity to the University.†   (source)
  • To me, it was heady enough to be in the Elliotts' proximity, to skim across the Atlantic and return to a plushly restored home built in 1822 by a whaling captain, and there to prepare and eat meals of organic, healthful foods whose names I didn't know how to pronounce.†   (source)
  • Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life he was actually heeling, or at least attempting a close proximity of it.†   (source)
  • They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love's illusion.†   (source)
  • Mention of their love had made Saeed and Nadia a bit uncomfortable, for they had not been very romantic of late, each still perceiving the grating of their presence on the other, and they put this down to being too long in too close proximity, a state of unnatural nearness in which any relationship would suffer.†   (source)
  • Bailey persisted in calling her Mother Dear until the circumstance of proximity softened the phrase's formality to "Muh Dear," and finally to "M'Deah."†   (source)
  • At this proximity, Dan could finally make out the details of the man's face.†   (source)
  • We increased each other's magic just by being in proximity.†   (source)
  • It seemed she could play six degrees of separation with any of the injured-when she had seen them last; when they had crossed her path; where they had been in proximity to her when they had been shot.†   (source)
  • The train, as though protesting its heavier burden, as though protesting the proximity of white buttock to black knee, groaned, lurched, the wheels seemed to scrape the track, making a tearing sound.†   (source)
  • But after initially allowing Sobukwe and me a certain proximity, the authorities took pains to keep us apart.†   (source)
  • I remain awake, every fiber of my body aware of her proximity.†   (source)
  • Later Leigh climbed into my bed, moved very close to me, her proximity strangely unsettling.†   (source)
  • The apartment complexes were within walking distance of the main shopping center, which was now drooping and tired, with a porn shop across the parking lot from a day-care center, but its proximity to the complexes meant that residents could get their food without hitching a ride or taking a train or bus.†   (source)
  • He had dismissed them as idle office gossip, annoying but natural when a man and single woman worked in such close proximity, day after day.†   (source)
  • I leaned in, not understanding, and somehow hoping a closer proximity would clear up his accent.†   (source)
  • I tried not to squirm at his proximity and his assumption that I would be fine with it.†   (source)
  • The discovery of the galleon, an indication of the proximity of the sea, broke Jose Arcadio Buendia's drive.†   (source)
  • It would be well for your government to consider that having so many of your ships and our ships, your aircraft and our aircraft in close proximity is an inherently dangerous situation.†   (source)
  • The prisoners continued their climb, moving in grim proximity to each other.†   (source)
  • Proximity did not equal protection, and any slip could mean disaster for the entire family.†   (source)
  • Desperate folks sometimes do desperate things, especially when they're in close proximity to each other."†   (source)
  • Or, in that same proximity, it could be a woman or a child or an old man.†   (source)
  • Mortenson made the best of their proximity and quizzed Mouzafer on the Balti words for all they saw.†   (source)
  • Guitar had placed himself willingly and eagerly in a life cause that would always provide him with a proximity to knife-cold terror.†   (source)
  • Within, noblemen in my proximity would beg me to dance.†   (source)
  • Compared with my sister's proximity to my parents, Syracuse was far away from home.†   (source)
  • Second (and, to me, most important), once a fledgling entered the House of Night, he or she must stay in close proximity with adult vamps.†   (source)
  • And Jack acted as if whatever danger or inconvenience he had to endure would be worth the trouble, as long as he could remain in close proximity to Aven.†   (source)
  • They had known each other for more than fifteen years, and had spent their summers in proximity, but in all that time they had exchanged only a handful of sentences.†   (source)
  • I flinched, rattled from the proximity of live ammo.†   (source)
  • All during the assembly, they crane their necks to glimpse the crews, to gauge proximity.†   (source)
  • Bringing himself back down, he kept kissing Meredith until the sound of her heartbeat and her warm proximity became too much to bear.†   (source)
  • It had only been a week, but it felt like ages since we'd been in this kind of proximity.†   (source)
  • It was worse when they were at his and he had to explain that come midnight he would have to drive them home because he was an insomniac and found it impossible to fall asleep in close proximity to another person.†   (source)
  • We outgrew that intimacy, but I still long for it, for the proximity of his skull.†   (source)
  • She could hear Jace and Alec talking up ahead on the path, their voices faintly blurred despite their proximity.†   (source)
  • Seeing the best of the Horde in such close proximity, Thomas was reminded why his people had such an aversion to Scabs.†   (source)
  • My bodies sweated under my uniform jackets, and, bored, I opened three of my mouths, all in close proximity to each other on the temple plaza, and sang with those three voices, "My heart is a fish, hiding in the watergrass …."†   (source)
  • Close proximity was also required, as the light was so dim and so cluttered with shadows that the attorney might not get a good look at the priest. a prosecution's witness with an objectionable inquiry and then shouting "I withdraw the question," leaving the prosecutor speechless.†   (source)
  • At no point on the American continent could so many human beings be seen in such close proximity or in such variety.†   (source)
  • Those who are still in health to do it should not be asked to risk such proximity with the dead.†   (source)
  • "A woman whose striking appearance corrupts our young gentlemen by mere proximity?" the hare said disapprovingly.†   (source)
  • Now Baughman's agents scan the crowd, nervous about the close proximity of the vast audience.†   (source)
  • Even the struggle of resisting his proximity had been a link to him, a price to pay, a victory achieved in his name.†   (source)
  • DEC. 17—Elizabeth, long fearful because of its proximity to Newark Airport, gained a permanent listing in the annals of aviation tragedy at 3:09 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a two-engined non-scheduled airliner plummeted in flames into the east bank of the Elizabeth River, only seven minutes after its takeoff.†   (source)
  • Deep lessons are learned in proximity to illness and death, when the value of life is felt more keenly; Alzheimer's, for example, often occasions an examination of the fundamental nature of personality and belief.†   (source)
  • I have only known proximity.†   (source)
  • They had been spared proximity to the executions, very few of which were carried out in the city itself, the seat of government, where agitation was unwanted.†   (source)
  • Or maybe that's just because of Luke's proximity.†   (source)
  • Proximity to Bryn Shander was second only to the quantity of fish hooked in determining the success and size of the fishing towns.†   (source)
  • I was still so conscious of Sofia's proximity, still lured by the fragrance of her blood.†   (source)
  • Other parts of the textile South have never recovered from these two blows, but upstate South Carolina—thanks to its proximity to I-85, and to foresighted actions by community leaders—attracted manufacturers of products far more complicated than shirts and textiles.†   (source)
  • The proximity of the villages to such a vital road had left her dubious about the prospects of a two-state solution.†   (source)
  • He always appeared to be startled; but this may have been assumed emotion, for in most cases his sense of smell must have warned him of her proximity.†   (source)
  • Now that the other children were older and there was so much going on in the kitchen, I had to get close to the actual radio set in order to concentrate my hearing, and in that intent proximity to the dial I grew familiar with the names of foreign stations, with Leipzig and Oslo and Stuttgart and Warsaw and, of course, with Stockholm.†   (source)
  • The three female names had stirred my intense interest, especially Astrid Weinstein, who was in fascinating proximity across the hall.†   (source)
  • Without moving my arms (I couldn't) I thumbed the switch for a proximity reading and read it when it flashed on in the instrument reflector inside my helmet in front of my forehead.†   (source)
  • My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires — all for eighty dollars a month.   (source)
    proximity = characteristic of being close
  • It was often like this, multiple jobs in close proximity.†   (source)
  • Her whisper was almost impossible to hear, even at such close proximity.†   (source)
  • I am unable to mask us from proximity detectors.†   (source)
  • He has no interest in moving to Brooklyn, not in such proximity to Donald and Astrid, anyway.†   (source)
  • It was like Patrick somehow felt I owed him something, given my constant physical proximity to Will.†   (source)
  • The sound swells, as if alerted by our quiet words to the proximity of live flesh.†   (source)
  • Turning his attention back to the radar, he radioed, "Negative contact on proximity radar."†   (source)
  • GROUND PROXIMITY WARNING SYSTEM (GPWS): One hundred.†   (source)
  • The screams have stopped, and in their absence my name has rebounded, startling in its proximity.†   (source)
  • 'Fully aware that you were in close proximity to a Muggle at the time?†   (source)
  • Her proximity to them had made it possible.†   (source)
  • An unfixed knife requires proximity to a human body's electrical field to prevent disintegration.†   (source)
  • Who you end up with, it's really just an accident of proximity.†   (source)
  • There must be some reason why they felt safe despite their proximity to the monster….†   (source)
  • There was no sense of comfort in that closeness; both of them seemed to cringe from the proximity.†   (source)
  • It's hard when he's in such close proximity, but I do my best to focus and process his confession.†   (source)
  • I nodded, heart hiccuping at his proximity.†   (source)
  • The proximity gave Bourne the opportunity to see exactly what he needed to see.†   (source)
  • There must be some kind of mechanism …. a pressure plate, a proximity alarm.†   (source)
  • Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.†   (source)
  • Much longer in such close proximity and Meredith would be in very real danger.†   (source)
  • I can locate it by proximity to the-- They didn't.†   (source)
  • So much we knew; proximity to the ill begat illness.†   (source)
  • In truth, the assembly's numbers and proximity made Max more than a little nervous.†   (source)
  • Putting Charlie in constant danger through my proximity.†   (source)
  • It seemed they hadn't, but how could that be, with them in such close proximity?†   (source)
  • Her proximity to him, her encroachment of sacred bawana space, rattled him, distracted him.†   (source)
  • " My eyes snap open at the voice's proximity.†   (source)
  • As for Ghosh, proximity to Hema was his drug.†   (source)
  • Something that had the Cullens and the wolves both in the woods, moving in hazardous proximity to each other.†   (source)
  • A shiver goes through me when I think of the proximity of my mother and sister to this man who despises me.†   (source)
  • You must think too of your future wife and children, who ought not to be placed in such close proximity to a pack of dangerous madmen.†   (source)
  • He now stressed, however, that for the first half of the summit day he wanted everybody to climb in close proximity.†   (source)
  • I jump at the proximity of the sound.†   (source)
  • Holmes did not kill face to face, as Jack the Ripper had done, gorging himself on warmth and viscera, but he did like proximity.†   (source)
  • That meant that despite the proximity to Imre and the University, Trebon was truly a backwater community.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was his proximity to the furnace, or the exertion of carrying the stack of dossiers down two flights of stairs, but the Bishop had begun to sweat in a manner that was distinctly out of character.†   (source)
  • In fact, one could see that Mr Lewis' almost constant proximity to M. Dupont was proving a serious inconvenience to Lord Darlington, who was naturally keen to make close personal contact with this distinguished gentleman before the discussions began.†   (source)
  • Sixty years, seventy years — it would seem like a very, very short time to me…… But then it proved much too dangerous for her to live in such close proximity with my world.†   (source)
  • But that may be beside the point, because from an emotional standpoint, and quite apart from the religious significance of the events for Christians, both holidays derive much of their power from their proximity in the calendar year to moments on which we humans place great emphasis.†   (source)
  • They reasoned that eastern Poland, closer to the Soviets, would be safer than the west, with its proximity to Germany.†   (source)
  • My proximity to the Careers' camp sharpens my senses, and the closer I get to them, the more guarded I am, pausing frequently to listen for unnatural sounds, an arrow already fitted into the string of my bow.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because of the daily confinement and the close proximity to each other, we argued often in those days, Suleiman and I. We argued the way married couples do, stubbornly, heatedly, and over trivial things.†   (source)
  • Condemned inmates have limited opportunity for exercise or visitation and are held in disturbingly close proximity to the electric chair.†   (source)
  • …intermittent optimism that refused entirely to die in Marin, perhaps because Marin was less violent than most of the places its residents had fled, or because of the view, its position on the edge of a continent, overlooking the world's widest ocean, or because of the mix of its people, or its proximity to that realm of giddy technology that stretched down the bay like a bent thumb, ever poised to meet the curved finger of Marin in a slightly squashed gesture that all would be okay.†   (source)
  • 21 Nels Gudmundsson stood at a distance from the witness stand when it was his turn to question Susan Marie Heine: he did not want to appear lecherous by placing himself in close proximity to a woman of such tragic, sensual beauty.†   (source)
  • There were at least two always visible, their handlers sure to parade them past the cages in close proximity.†   (source)
  • In the rear of the nave, rendered even more insignificant than usual by his proximity to the giant painting of "The Call of the Twelve," pudgy Harold Crosby sat diminished by the depiction of Jesus appointing his disciples; all eyes rarely feasted on fat Harold Crosby, who was not grotesque enough to be teased—or even noticed—but who was enough of a slob to be rejected whenever he caused the slightest attention to be drawn to himself.†   (source)
  • And loneliness was a big part of it: his proximity to the house and the knowledge that Almondine was gone had swept a desolation through him like he'd never known.†   (source)
  • "The coroner testified that, after examining Chase's body, there was no evidence that Miss Clark was in close proximity to him that night.†   (source)
  • Search for: KNIGHT, LONDON, POPE, TOMB Within 100 word proximity of: GRAIL, ROSE, SANGREAL, CHALICE "How long will this take?"†   (source)
  • I told myself that all of this was okay with me, that a life could be made of this proximity, that maybe that was the only possible life to make, since the other paths, which my imagination had instantaneously traveled, were all equally impossible.†   (source)
  • For while the proximity of the hotel to the Bolshoi made it a natural choice for young ballerinas who wished to slip away at the end of rehearsal, the same proximity also made it a favored spot of Gorsky's whenever he wished to discuss matters of art with his prima ballerina.†   (source)
  • I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting, with the general proximity of nature, and in particular the example of the geese close at hand, would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing.†   (source)
  • It was not only the prospect of breaking into Umbridge's office and using her fire to speak to Sirius that was making him feel nervous, though that was certainly bad enough; today also happened to be the first time Harry would be in close proximity to Snape since Snape had thrown him out of his office.†   (source)
  • Mr. Brinker-Smith, who was a biologist, also fancied 'himself an inventor; he invented a double-seater high chair, a double-seater stroller, a double-seater swing—the latter hung in a doorway, where the twins could dangle like monkeys on a vine, in close enough proximity to each other to pull each other's hair.†   (source)
  • One second later, the Ground Proximity Warning System calls out in its toneless electronic voice, "Five hundred [feet]."†   (source)
  • HEY HAD MEASURED THEIR LIVES BY PROXIMITY TO THAT silent, inward creature, that dark-haired, sky-eyed boy who smoothed his hands along their flanks and legs and withers and muzzles, a boy they'd watched since the moment of their birth, a boy who appeared each morning carrying water and food and, every afternoon, a brush.†   (source)
  • Though Mae seemed sure that the shark couldn't be their predator—after all, Stenton had found them all in close proximity—they were hiding from it as if they knew it, and its plans, quite well.†   (source)
  • So although I looked childish—although I seemed to the cabin staff (as I declined to talk to Will, to look at him, to feed him) as if I were the most heartless of women—I knew that pretending he was not there was about the only way I could cope with these hours of enforced proximity.†   (source)
  • Proximity to the condemned, to people unfairly judged; that was what guided me back to something that felt like home.†   (source)
  • Events and people captured his attention the way moving objects caught the notice of an amphibian: first a machinelike registration of proximity, next a calculation of worth, and last a decision to act or remain motionless.†   (source)
  • Certainly, war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity.†   (source)
  • …great difficulty moved out in the first place, and become quite attached to her small flat, to the life, albeit often lonely, that she had built there, and also finding the idea of living as a chaste half lover, half sister to Saeed in close proximity to his parents rather bizarre, and she might have waited much longer had Saeed's mother not been killed, a stray heavy-caliber round passing through the windshield of her family's car and taking with it a quarter of Saeed's mother's head,…†   (source)
  • Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.†   (source)
  • On the aborted landing, the plane's Ground Proximity Warning System went off no fewer than fifteen times, telling the captain that he was bringing in the plane too low.†   (source)
  • He wanted proximity.†   (source)
  • Paul glanced at the proximity detector on the floor, studying the dials illuminated in the blackness by phosphor tubes.†   (source)
  • Nadia experienced the environment of the house as a bit like that of a university dormitory at the start of classes, with complete strangers living in close proximity, many of them on their best behavior, trying to add warmth to conversations and strike poses of friendship, hoping these gestures would become more natural over time.†   (source)
  • Many people in the region insisted on a racialized hierarchy that required symbols, markers, and constant reinforcement, in part because of the area's proximity to the North.†   (source)
  • This ship's proximity masked," he said.†   (source)
  • While Eragon was grateful that he and Saphira were able to talk, albeit in a roundabout fashion, he found the spoken word a poor substitute for the free exchange of thoughts and emotions they enjoyed when in close proximity.†   (source)
  • For the better part of a half hour, the patient enumerated reasons for and against each of the two dates: previous engagements, proximity to other engagements, possible meteorological conditions, virtually anything that one could think about concerning a simple date.†   (source)
  • I would never act like Kaeleigh, craving his proximity, his touch, yet pretending not to notice the cut of his silk trousers, the way his biceps fill his tailored shirtsleeves.†   (source)
  • The models moved away, uncertain, as if by proximity they could catch whatever she had, as if sorrow was infectious.†   (source)
  • The only thing that kept it from being perfect was its close proximity to Esther, Leah, and Maggie and all their various dramatics.†   (source)
  • "Felix merely meant to point out the proximity of the sun," the other shadow said in a soothing tone.†   (source)
  • If they occurred at midnight, for instance, and he saw no passing cars, he could then survey the area, noting the location of occupied houses with lamps blazing in the window, the proximity of the highway, or possibly even river traffic.†   (source)
  • But there was something about our daily proximity that had made me relax, or at least not jump every time he looked my way.†   (source)
  • She stood her ground, though, only inches from her namesake, and this proximity revealed a remarkable fact: Their profiles were almost identical.†   (source)
  • Lissa had it all planned out, how they'd go to freshman orientation together, live in dorms that were in close proximity, share a couple of classes.†   (source)
  • Though Lewis Powell checked out of his hotel room hours earlier, the four men meet outside the Herndon House because of its close proximity to Ford's.†   (source)
  • Captain Keith Johnson approached him from the cockpit looking like something out of a comic book with all of his camouflaged equipment: a helmet with a communications rig that allowed him to view the proximity of each of four team leaders through a visor that hovered over his right eye.†   (source)
  • As he answered, she looked around, amazed at how remote it felt despite its proximity to the highway.†   (source)
  • Proximity overpowered similarity.†   (source)
  • Once, this would have seemed impossible, considering our very proximity'not to mention how often we crossed paths, intentionally or otherwise.†   (source)
  • The major could not help himself; the proximity of the accident so close to his official vehicle forced him to move forward, obviously to ascertain whether or not his men were involved.†   (source)
  • For hours, the only sounds were of pages turning as all escaped into a different world, albeit in proximity to one another.†   (source)
  • But their increased proximity revealed nothing new and only served to reinforce Roran's impression that the city was nigh on impregnable.†   (source)
  • Something in my chest was hurting to have him so near–to have him hating me in such close proximity.†   (source)
  • The first section of country he crossed was the kind of steep, treed hillside that one sees from trains, and that, despite its proximity to a railway track, is wild and alluring.†   (source)
  • Although it was obvious that neither group liked nor trusted the other-an attitude he shared, for he regarded the Urgals with the same degree of suspicion and distaste as would any man who had been raised in proximity to the Spine-they had succeeded in working together during the past three days with nary a raised voice.†   (source)
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