Synonyms

1. connection

Sentence Examples

1. The connexion of the two events had about it so much of the palpable, that the true wonder would have been a failure of the populace to appreciate and to seize it.
2. Miss Woodhouse appeared more than once, and never without a something of pleasing connexion, either a compliment to her taste, or a remembrance of what she had said and in the very last time of its meeting her eye, unadorned as it was by any such broad wreath of gallantry, she yet could discern the effect of her influence and acknowledge the greatest compliment perhaps of all conveyed.
3. But the question is not, whether it would be a bad connexion for him, but whether he wishes it and I think he does.
4. He seemed by this connexion between the families, quite to belong to her.
5. As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy persuaded, that after all his own vaunted claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing.
6. My only scruple in advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him.
7. This is a connexion which offers nothing but good.
8. And all the grandeur of the connexion seemed dependent on the elder sister, who was very well married, to a gentleman in a great way, near Bristol, who kept two carriages!
9. Captain Weston was a general favourite and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
10. It was an unsuitable connexion, and did not produce much happiness.