vis-à-visin a sentence
- Laura told me what she was doing vis-a-vis Elwood Murray; she also told Reenie.† (source)
- The water was shockingly cold at first—not a great situation vis-a-vis wearing only boxer shorts—but I got used to the temperature pretty quickly.† (source)
- First, to determine my position vis-à-vis the shoreline.† (source)
- Suppose that President Higinbotham finds as his vis-a-vis an anointed, barebacked Fiji beauty or a Dahomeyite amazon bent upon the extraordinary antics of the cannibal dance, is he to join in and imitate her or risk his head in an effort to restrain her?† (source)
- Some Girders take it very seriously, of course, and we love it when people want to participate, but the rank is really just a fun way to see how your participation manifests itself vis-a-vis the overall Circle community.† (source)
- This rather stubborn attitude vis-à-vis the district court was one of the reasons why they had got along so well.† (source)
- She endured my unjust complaints better than I endured what I felt to be the injustice in my situation vis-a-vis all that mob of ghosts.† (source)
- Have you any figures readily available as to the percentage that fails, vis-a-vis that which prevails?† (source)
- "Which makes me wonder if the wights have been tinkering with nature," said Millard, "vis-à-vis the transference of peculiar souls."† (source)
- Then she threw off her exigent vis-à-vis with a polite but clipped parting that she had just learned from Dick, and went over to join him.† (source)
- The afternoon sunlight still lingered upon the bright lawns and shrubberies, and up and down Bellevue Avenue rolled a double line of victorias, dog-carts, landaus and "vis-a-vis," carrying well-dressed ladies and gentlemen away from the Beaufort garden-party, or homeward from their daily afternoon turn along the Ocean Drive.† (source)
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- He, Naphta, regretted having to disappoint his vis-a-vis, for he found the humanist fear of the very word "illiteracy" merely amusing.† (source)
- He did not notice the strange smile on the face of his fair VIS-A-VIS, so intent was he on the work of destruction; perhaps, had he done so, the look of relief would have faded from his face.† (source)
- Moved to address his vis-a-vis, he simulated interest in his book for a moment, and then exclaimed aloud as if involuntarily: "Ha!† (source)
- These owners of the two most appreciative throats in the neighbourhood, within the pale of respectability, were now sitting face to face over a three-legged circular table, having an iron rim to keep cups and pots from being accidentally elbowed off; they might have been said to resemble the setting sun and the full moon shining vis-a-vis across the globe.† (source)
- All of a sudden I saw a little girl of thirteen, nicely dressed, dancing with a specialist in that line, with another one vis-a-vis.† (source)
- But as she was dancing the last quadrille with one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with Vronsky and Anna.† (source)
- MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS.† (source)
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