All 3 Uses of
conjunction
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- It is but due to her character to say, that in conjunction with her estimable husband, she had broken many and many a one.†
Chpt 9 *
- 'But old Arthur Gride and matrimony is a most anomalous conjunction of words; old Arthur Gride and dark eyes and eyelashes, and lips that to look at is to long to kiss, and clustering hair that he wants to play with, and waists that he wants to span, and little feet that don't tread upon anything—old Arthur Gride and such things as these is more monstrous still; but old Arthur Gride marrying the daughter of a ruined "dashing man" in the Rules of the Bench, is the most monstrous and…†
Chpt 47
- …to look in for at least a few minutes every Sunday, or one evening in the week, there was Mr Tim Linkinwater (who had never made half-a-dozen other acquaintances in all his life, and who took such delight in his new friends as no words can express) constantly coming and going in his evening walks, and stopping to rest; while Mr Frank Cheeryble happened, by some strange conjunction of circumstances, to be passing the door on some business or other at least three nights in the week.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(conjunction as in: "And" is a conjunction) a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words or phrases or clauses in a sentence