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The degree of systematic relationship is thus the degree of genealogical affinity.
There exists a deep affinity between extreme elevation and extreme debasement.
Civilian blood tingled in office and shop, claiming affinity with Drake's.
Their language is peculiar, but by no means without miscellaneous affinities.
These affinities lead me to think that it is a South American insect.
Newman has no marked affinities with English writers of his day.
Here, as everywhere, the incalculable law of affinities appears and escapes.
As for chemical affinities and their unvarying expressions, they are universal.
Not closely connected with any other, but with miscellaneous affinities.
Our affinities are ourselves, in whatever ground they may live and ripen.
She gratifies her own tastes, and cherishes her natural affinities.
Young Indian elephants are hairy, thus showing affinity with the mammoth.
As already mentioned, chloroform has an affinity for the red blood-corpuscles.
They rent them according to the degrees of affinity and parentage.
The epithet has probably been chosen from its affinity to Light.
It is a touchstone of affinities, and guardian of the laws of intermarriage.
He seems suddenly relegated, as by some natural affinity, to the mother.
This is called congenial, and an overly congenial person is an "affinity."
On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species.
I feel an affinity with the azure skies of Paradise within my soul.
Let us now look to the mutual affinities of extinct and living species.
By natural affinity the social eccentrics commonly sympathized with political eccentricity.
They have too many miscellaneous affinities to allow them to stand wholly alone.
"Elective affinities," remarked Anna, elevating her eyebrows, and went on crocheting.
Otherwise, there is little intellectual affinity, and still less temperamental sympathy.
There is great affinity between the inflections of the voice and gesture.
In the drawing-room natural affinities reassert themselves: intimates gather into little groups.
Nor has it any evident affinities with any group of African tongues.
Call it divination, second sight, clairvoyance, magnetic affinity, or what you will.
The animal having an affinity with white was quite naturally the ermine.
The systematic position of these intermediate species is determined by their obvious affinities.
Now there are, in etymology, two ways of determining the affinity of ideas.
And, indeed, taken simply as inclination, it possesses some degree of affinity therewith.
To the true lynx this imaginary one has no affinity but in name.
The gadget is set to have an affinity for dark corners, at least.
Great difficulties attend an attempt to define the ethnographic affinities of the Turks.
It is the fatality of blood, stronger than political affinities or geographical alliances.
To put it in a very hackneyed way, we were not each other's affinities.
Race affinity is a potent force, why be in a hurry to dissipate it?
Making back-wall has affinities with stoking, only it's hotter while it lasts.
Nothing is needed but the requisite heat to quicken the chemical affinities into action.
Affinity is a liking evinced between two objects, contact not being necessary.
It has numberless affinities, but no adhesion; it does not even adhere to itself.
Let us see then what botanists tell us of its character and affinities.
It expands bodies, weakens cohesive attraction, and quickens the chemical affinities into activity.
Now each Catalytic has peculiarities and affinities that distinguish it from all others.
The fourth column is intended to represent the Affinities of the Vitriolic Acid.
The attractive qualities of their affinities are Candor, Coolness, Cynicism, Cleverness, and Cash.
Potts brought the circle round to Sir Basil, a neat gradation of affinities.
And shall we join in affinity,' they ask, 'with a people of these abominations?
To deny the affinity of this with religion would be fatuous and also futile.
"A man with your tongue would be an affinity for a cackling old woman!"
It is problematical whether this proceeded from a real elective affinity, or was mechanical.
Certain other forms of doubtful affinities have also been referred provisionally to this section.
I cannot see that literary tastes and dissipated habits have any natural affinity.
Society is born of the desire to multiply affinities through mutual interchange of good offices.
Sympathies bud and blossom with miraculous quickness in this tropical atmosphere of affinity.
To him, affinity and kinship with the other animals is a repugnant thing.
In those excessively low temperatures at which Professor Dewar experiments chemical affinities languish.
It is a very interesting species, indicative of the Indian affinities of the New Guinea fauna.
Those principles beget affinities which escape your knowledge, and which are linked to centers.
He was not a democrat as implying one that had affinities with the people.
Organisms may be arranged on a tree which symbolizes their structural affinities and divergences.
We must obey our spiritual affinities, or our great and glorious mission will be unfulfilled.
Incidentally, perhaps, it will reveal to us unsuspected affinities between ourselves and our remote ancestor.
Few writings of this compass afford more copious evidence of date in their literary affinities.
Roman tragedy shows its affinity to oratory in its grave and didactic tone.
All the affinities of the American native point toward the more eastern parts of Asia.
Powerful bases; possessing a strong affinity for water, and form with it hydrates.
Between them and her was an affinity which his imagination could not sever.
This peculiarity is owing to the affinity between molten iron or steel and carbon.
In the same early morning, I discovered a singular affinity between seeds and corduroys.
Naturalists cannot avoid these terms of relation and affinity though they use them metaphorically.
He requires also spiritual affinity and oneness with the being that he couples with.
These examples demonstrate that resemblance in conformation is functional, and no proof of affinity.
When they from affinity cohere, the image is rapidly built up on this superstructure.
Chlorine acts as a bleaching agent by reason of its strong affinity for hydrogen.
The close affinities of fresh-water animals and plants have been noticed by many naturalists.
Let us leave to chemistry its affinity; to physics, its elasticity and its gravity.
Still more remarkable, because less superficially evident, is the affinity between Ovid and Milton.
Plato is the great exponent of dialectic, or the reciprocal affinities and necessities of ideas.
His fine, clear-cut features, however, had no affinity to those of that celebrated race.
Next to manganese, it has the strongest affinity for oxygen of all the metals.
Still he indicates some important general and miscellaneous affinities; and Prichard does the same.
There is never going to be any communism of mountain herbage, their affinities are too sure.
He appears to us in Protean shapes, indeed, but not without an affinity between them.
Friends grouped together by the unerring law of elective affinities loitered in galleries and churches.
The American affinities, however, are not always of the character that we might have expected.
The scattered affinities grope for each other and vainly seek to reconstitute a normal pudding.
The Southern mountaineers have little affinity, socially or politically, with the people of the settlements.
They show for what sort of anecdotes his familiarly known personality had an affinity.
Time had not loosed the bonds wherein the marquis was held by his affinity.
A few of his tribes are natural, but many are valueless as an expression of affinities.
The Inflammable, as being the reduced acid, must have the strongest affinity for oxygen.
Much less will it acknowledge any affinity with or subjection to it as a mere threat.
The lines of cleavage which had hitherto determined his interests and affinities were being obliterated.
The island contains twenty-five species of bats, mostly of African, but some of Indian, affinities.
Each has miscellaneous affinities with all the other tongues both of North and South America.
The Southern planters were supposed to be gentlemen with whom they had more natural affinity.
Linguistic, broaching the immense and important questions as to the diversity and affinities of languages.