"Liaison" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the Intelligence Maintenance of War work, and constituted the axes of liaison between the ...
— The Greater Love • George T. McCarthy
... Verhaltnis as used in the arithmetic lesson means ratio, proportion. The word is in common use in Germany for a love intimacy or liaison.—Translators' Note. ...
— A Young Girl's Diary • An Anonymous Young Girl
... continually late for dinner owing to errors in judging the distances from one room to another. Our once happy family has dissolved into silent morose individuals, for we have grown strange and distant to one another. Liaison between departments has broken down, and the Staff-Captain whom I saw yesterday in the distance is suffering from ...
— Punch, Volume 156, 26 March 1919 • Various
... Whitney's view that language is arbitrary and conventional, and against the opposite view that language is instinctive, Professor Carriere quotes the happy expression of M.Renan, "La liaison du sens et du mot n'est jamais ncessaire, jamais arbitraire, toujours elle est motive." Here the nail is hit on the head. Professor Carriero highly commends Professor Whitney's lectures, and he does by no means adopt all my own views; but he felt obliged to enter a protest against ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... visits to Saint-James, a few evenings in the back of a box at some small theatre, behind the grating where forbidden, shamefaced pleasure conceals itself,—those were the only memories bequeathed to her by that liaison of two weeks, that loveless sin, wherein not even her pride had succeeded in satisfying itself by the notoriety of a scandal in high life. The fruitless, ineffaceable stain, the senseless fall into the ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... to keep the liaison a secret. There was a woman in the case, that he admitted. "And not the first either," said Ensign Spooney to Ensign Stubble. "That Osborne's a devil of a fellow. There was a judge's daughter at Demerara went almost mad about him; then there was that beautiful ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... sense in her. If she were worth her salt she would have too much pride to be intimate with a youth in your unassured position, to say no more.' (Viviette's face by this time tingled hot again.) 'She is old enough to know that a liaison with her may, and almost certainly would, be your ruin; and, on the other hand, that a marriage would be preposterous—unless she is a complete fool; and in that case there is even more reason for avoiding her than if she were in ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy
... Andrea's liaison with Elena Muti had been perfectly well known, as sooner or later every adventure and every flirtation becomes known in Roman society, or the society of any other city for the matter of that. Precautions are useless. To the ...
— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio
... L'Illustration, being wealthy and powerful, rode over M. Stock. And the amateurs of Becque have duly had the pleasure of reading "Les Polichinelles." Just as "Les Corbeaux" was the result of experiences gained in a domestic smash-up, and "La Parisienne" the result of experiences gained in a feverish liaison, so "Les Polichinelles" is the result experiences gained on the Bourse. It is in five acts. The first two are practically complete, and they are exceedingly fine—quite equal to the very best Becque. The other acts are fragmentary, but some of the fragments are admirable. I can think ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... to turn my youth and the good looks nature had bestowed upon me to some account, by establishing a liaison with some generous old dame. This was just as little to my taste, for it would necessarily have rendered ...
— Manon Lescaut • Abbe Prevost
... il faudroit expliquer comment ces bancs, d'abord horisontaux, ont pu se redresser; pourquoi ce redressement a ete si frequent, si regulier, etc. etc. Je reserve pour un autre tems la discussion de ces grandes questions; mais je ne crois pas inutile de faire apercevoir la liaison qu'ont avec la theorie des observations si minutieuses ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton |
