“Surely, too, it would be a waste of an agent, for after several hours of propinquity, I could scarcely fail to recognize him in the future.”

“She loved Emma Jane, but it was a friendship born of propinquity and circumstance, not of true affinity.”

“There have historically been five criteria for marriage: gender, age, number, propinquity, and species.”

“Decent people out there. Russ wants to believe they are still assembled in some recognizable manner, the kindred unit at the radio, old lines and ties and propinquities.”