Both Uses of
alliance
in
The Wanderers
- Turning her head, looking out of the one bright window through which came the cries of the little MacLains playing in the yard, she knew another moment of alliance.†
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- Except in a form too rarefied for her, it lacked future as well as past; but she knew when even a rarefied thing had become a matter of loyalty and alliance.†
Definition:
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(alliance) an association formed to support common interests