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  • In the South, among extreme chauvinists, you sometimes find a strange affinity for Nazi regalia.†   (source)
  • She immediately forgot the names of the first four: a gangly, haughty boy; a hulking brute; a disdainful runt of a man; and a sniveling, hawknosed prat who claimed he had an affinity for knives.†   (source)
  • But the public gaze of the stairway mirror as she hurried toward it revealed a woman on her way to a funeral, an austere, joyless woman moreover, whose black carapace had affinities with some form of matchbox-dwelling insect.†   (source)
  • A Patronus is a magical charm, a projection of all your most positive feelings, and takes the shape of the animal with whom you share the deepest affinity.†   (source)
  • But in spite of all that, if there was one race the People felt an affinity for it was the Irish.†   (source)
  • Even now they resist affinity like cats in a bag: two blondes—the one short and fierce, the other tall and imperious—flanked by matched brunettes like bookends, the forward twin leading hungrily while the rear one sweeps the ground in a rhythmic limp.†   (source)
  • A cup of coffee, a free meal in his restaurant, a fine black cigar—policemen valued these gestures of affinity and grace.†   (source)
  • Apollo, you have an affinity with Oracles.†   (source)
  • I have never seen such affinity between two beings.†   (source)
  • Still, she harbors a particular affinity for them because of the seeds, which are small and brown but cloaked in beauty, in these thin white tendrils of cotton.†   (source)
  • I have an affinity for ugly women.†   (source)
  • He wanted to write a letter to Dr. Juvenal Urbino, whom he considered the most honorable man he had ever known, and his soul's friend, as he liked to say, despite the fact that the only affinity between the two was their addiction to chess understood as a dialogue of reason and not as a science.†   (source)
  • They think it's some kind of a "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation.†   (source)
  • Prior to this, people had felt a strong affinity with their own folk and their own city-state.†   (source)
  • In that young and growing Ohio town whose side streets, even, were paved with concrete, which sat on the edge of a calm blue lake, which boasted an affinity with Oberlin, the underground railroad station, just thirteen miles away, this melting pot on the lip of America facing the cold but receptive Canada—What could go wrong?†   (source)
  • Moody assumed that Mahtob would have an instant affinity for Mammal.†   (source)
  • We may have an affinity for stone, but we like the open air as much as elves or humans.†   (source)
  • Old Dog seemed to have an affinity for Deets and followed him right into the water without so much as stopping to sniff.†   (source)
  • Years ago Albert used to entertain the idea of certain affinities between himself and the great Fermi.†   (source)
  • Our whole family had a natural affinity for petroleum deposits, and soon every oil company in the world had technicians chasing us around.†   (source)
  • It just shows, I have a natural affinity with Indian cookery.†   (source)
  • You seem to have an affinity for their… feelings.†   (source)
  • There are families—the Blackthorns, the Herondales, the Carstairs—for whom I have always felt a special affinity: I have watched over them from a distance, though I have learned not to interfere.†   (source)
  • Indeed it is said by our lore-masters that they have from of old this affinity with us that they are come from those same Three Houses of Men as were the Numenoreans in their beginning not from Hador the Goldenhaired, the Elf-friend, maybe, yet from such of his sons and people as went not over Sea into the West, refusing the call.†   (source)
  • Max had a special affinity for Old Tom and had dearly missed its ringing chimes these past months.†   (source)
  • I had assumed the child and I would have a ready, natural affinity, and that my colleagues and associates and neighbors, though knowing her to be adopted, would have little trouble quickly accepting our being of a single kind and blood.†   (source)
  • We may feel a certain affinity because we may have similar backgrounds, and now we're struggling in this place, but after the war it would disappear.†   (source)
  • He'd been divorced twice, primarily because of his affinity for younger women, but the good people of the First Judicial District didn't seem to mind.†   (source)
  • As for myself, the effect was to engender in me a lasting affinity for the lesser beasts of the animal kingdom.†   (source)
  • Paul Berlin, who had no desire to confront death until he was old and feeble, and who believed firmly that he could not survive a true battle in the mountains, marched up the road knowing he would not fight well, knowing it certainly, but still climbing, one step then the next, climbing, seeing each thing separately, a wildflower with white blossoms, a pebble rolling, always climbing, as if drawn along by some physical force—inertia or herd affinity or magnetic attraction.†   (source)
  • All Oedipa would remember about him at first, in fact, were his slender build and neat Armenian nose, and a certain affinity of his eyes for green neon.†   (source)
  • But I was an abandoned reader and, besides, outlandishly eclectic, with an affinity for the written word—almost any written word—that was so excitable that it verged on the erotic.†   (source)
  • Writing these stories, which eventually appeared joined together in the book called The Golden Apples, was an experience in a writer's own discovery of affinities.†   (source)
  • In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one.   (source)
    affinity = attraction
  • Fairies have an affinity for minerals, they are of the earth.†   (source)
  • They engaged a powerful affinity with their habitat and their food chain.†   (source)
  • There is also a clear affinity to be observed in some of the Indo-European myths.†   (source)
  • He had a curious affinity for eating food directly out of cans, cold.†   (source)
  • The old man's backwoods savvy, his affinity for the wilderness, left a deep impression on the boy.†   (source)
  • I didn't want her to think I was implying some affinity of effort and perspective.†   (source)
  • He wants to feel a compatriot's nearness and affinity.†   (source)
  • The best results, however, must always come where there is the strongest affinity between wizard and wand.†   (source)
  • His lifelong affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed had been shaken somehow… replaced by an unexpected emptiness that seemed to have grown over the past year.†   (source)
  • I felt a sudden affinity for the troop of Blue Book men, pictured myself walking into their bitter encampment, waving a white flag: I am your brother, I used to work in print too.†   (source)
  • We have already noted Descartes's affinity with Plato, who also observed that mathematics and numerical ratio give us more certainty than the evidence of our senses.†   (source)
  • Although she never knew, nor did anyone know, what they spoke about in their prolonged sessions shut up in the workshop, she understood that they were probably the only members of the family who seemed drawn together by some affinity.†   (source)
  • It was a snug-enough room, Max decided, but the air was mildly damp, and the smell revealed the brothers' affinity for ripe, moldy cheeses.†   (source)
  • It was a connection aside from what we had just done, what I should say I believed already to be a special correspondence between us, an affinity of being.†   (source)
  • I realized that, in my helpless state, it was natural to develop an affinity for anyone who assumed the protector role.†   (source)
  • And she didn't really like the English sculptor's work if we're going to be honest about it, whatever their affinity of ominous doubt.†   (source)
  • The recruiter and the student waited to be rescued and they talked in the meantime about courses and professors as an affinity group entered the building with cherry bombs, lengths of pipe and size D flashlight batteries, the homemade makings of a mortar attack.†   (source)
  • And affinity groups started fires here and there, or broke windows, small bands with names like the Mudville Nine, the members masked in bandannas soaked in baking soda and egg white, a folk remedy against the gas.†   (source)
  • These stories were all related (and the fact was buried in their inceptions) by the strongest ties—identities, kinships, relationships, or affinities already known or remembered or foreshadowed.†   (source)
  • So, lingering there together in the heat of our charm-bound affinity, we spent another hour or so tying up the loose ends of our conversation, both of us very much aware that we had taken this afternoon the first step of what had to be a journey together into wild and uncharted territory.†   (source)
  • Thus, the entire landscape, the whole physical background of his life, was now dappled by powerful prejudices of liking and distaste formed, God knows how, or by what intangible affinities of thought, feeling and connotation.†   (source)
  • Thus Cottard, who had affinities with it, drew Rambert's attention to the absence of the dogs that in normal times would have been seen sprawling in the shadow of the doorways, panting, trying to find a nonexistent patch of coolness.†   (source)
  • The man, the hard, just, ruthless man, merely depended on him to act in a certain way and to receive the as certain reward or punishment, just as he could depend on the man to react in a certain way to his own certain doings and misdoings: It was the woman who, with a woman's affinity and instinct for secrecy, for casting a faint taint of evil about the most trivial and innocent actions.†   (source)
  • She must have taken it almost from under her father's nose (it was a small store and he was his own clerk and from any point in it he could see any other point) with that amoral boldness, that affinity for brigandage of women, but more likely, or so I would like to think, by some subterfuge of such bald and desperate transparence concocted by innocence that its very simplicity fooled him.†   (source)
  • I followed his short stubby finger along the paragraph: '-whether the foreign prince and the famous dancer arereally affinities!†   (source)
  • They thought the picture splendid, and so they might for all I cared, but for me it ended, once and for all, any confidence, any friendship, any feeling of affinity I could have for these people.†   (source)
  • The beautiful, noble, glorious Budur, discovering her male affinity beside her, and perceiving that he had already taken her ring, unable either to rouse him or to imagine what he had done to her, and ravaged with love, assailed by the open presence of his flesh, lost all control, and attained to a climax of helpless passion.†   (source)
  • The second game had an affinity with the first, it was the same world built of the same material, but the key was different, the time changed, the motif was differently given out and the situations differently presented.†   (source)
  • …him, did not pause, his voice level, curious, a little dreamy yet still with that overtone of sullen bemusement, of smoldering outrage: so that Shreve, still too, resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be stark naked) a baroque effigy created out of colored cake dough by someone with a faintly nightmarish affinity for the perverse, watched him with thoughtful and intent curiosity.†   (source)
  • Didn't the very affinity and instinct for misfortune of a man who had spent that much time in a monastery even, let alone one who had lived that many years as you lived them, tell you better than that? didn't the dread and fear of females which you must have drawn in with the primary mammalian milk teach you better?†   (source)
  • She was a woman with white skin and a cultivated mind, but the affinity for them existed in her.†   (source)
  • You know, I'm sure, that city boasts of a special affinity for ideas of political progress.†   (source)
  • The affinities of such a character were, as a matter of course, those of like for like.†   (source)
  • Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.†   (source)
  • I could not find that he was worse than I. There seemed to be a near affinity between us.†   (source)
  • There are certain affinities between the persons we quit and those we meet afterwards.†   (source)
  • Society exists by chemical affinity, and not other-wise.†   (source)
  • One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet.†   (source)
  • In the same early morning, I discovered a singular affinity between seeds and corduroys.†   (source)
  • There one lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public women.†   (source)
  • I have no affinity to a single consort, much less to duplicates and triplicates of the class!†   (source)
  • It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!†   (source)
  • One would think that the affinities would pronounce themselves with a surer reciprocity.'†   (source)
  • I will also swear it by the head of my father, for the two things have more affinity between them.†   (source)
  • Yet it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.†   (source)
  • Was there some subtle affinity between the chemical atoms, that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas, and the soul that was within him?†   (source)
  • I found from their manner that an extraordinary affinity, or sympathy, entered into their attachment, which somehow took away all flavour of grossness.†   (source)
  • To see him thus, to divine the strange affinity between the soul of this man, become primitive, and the savage environment that had developed him, were powerful helps to Madeline Hammond in her strange desire to understand his nature.†   (source)
  • During his restless waking hours, and even when he was asleep, there seemed always in the back of his mind a growing consciousness that soon he would emerge from this trial, a changed man, ready to sacrifice his chosen lot, to give up his lonely life of selfish indulgence in lazy affinity with nature, and to go wherever his strong hands might perform some real service to people.†   (source)
  • Odd affinities she had with people she had never spoken to, some woman in the street, some man behind a counter—even trees, or barns.†   (source)
  • As noted, mutual sympathy was at work here, the kind of family affection and affinity of personality that not infrequently leaps a generation.†   (source)
  • Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth.†   (source)
  • He loved the beauty of these places, and the wildness in them had an affinity with something strange and untamed in him.†   (source)
  • And it was not, after the first moment, the horror of the idea that held her spell-bound, subdued to his will; it was rather its subtle affinity to her own inmost cravings.†   (source)
  • Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love of strange affinity?†   (source)
  • Perhaps she foresaw an opportunity; for somehow or other the eyes of the brown girl rested in his own when he had said the words, and there was a momentary flash of intelligence, a dumb announcement of affinity in posse between herself and him, which, so far as Jude Fawley was concerned, had no sort of premeditation in it.†   (source)
  • But disregarding my own personal preferences—though perhaps, strictly speaking, I needn't disregard them so entirely—I have a great deal of sympathy and affinity for the military life.†   (source)
  • But the deeper affinity was unmistakable: the two had the same prejudices and ideals, and the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them.†   (source)
  • Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.†   (source)
  • It was, moreover, the period when Rosicrucianism infiltrated the lodges—a very strange brotherhood, which, you should note, united the purely rational, sociopolitical goals of improving the world and making people happy with a curious affinity for the occult sciences of the East, for Indian and Arabic wisdom and magical knowledge of nature.†   (source)
  • It was not in Bertha's habits to be neighbourly, much less to make advances to any one outside the immediate circle of her affinities.†   (source)
  • Ned Silverton's relation to Stancy seemed, for instance, closer and less clear than any natural affinities would warrant; and both appeared united in the effort to cultivate Freddy Van Osburgh's growing taste for Mrs. Hatch.†   (source)
  • When considering it later, as a young man, he realized that the image of his grandfather was imprinted much more deeply, clearly, and significantly in his memory than that of his parents—and this may possibly have had its basis both in mutual sympathy and a special physical affinity, because the grandson did look like his grandfather, to the extent that a lad with down on his rosy cheeks can resemble a sallow and stiff septuagenarian.†   (source)
  • His other wish, however, bound up with the first, was to enjoy a freer, more active, more intense experience of the snowy mountain wilderness, for which he felt a great affinity; but as long as he remained a mere unarmed, uncharioted pedestrian, his wish could never be fulfilled; and had he attempted it, he would have found himself up over his chest in snow the moment he pressed on beyond the shoveled paths, all of which quickly came to an end.†   (source)
  • Whether or no Beatrice possessed those terrible attributes, that fatal breath, the affinity with those so beautiful and deadly flowers which were indicated by what Giovanni had witnessed, she had at least instilled a fierce and subtle poison into his system.†   (source)
  • Whereas Lydgate was always listened to, bore himself with the careless politeness of conscious superiority, and seemed to have the right clothes on by a certain natural affinity, without ever having to think about them.†   (source)
  • Since Thomasin's marriage Mrs. Yeobright had shown towards him that grim friendliness which at last arises in all such cases of undesired affinity.†   (source)
  • If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.†   (source)
  • The forces of gravitation, electricity, or chemical affinity are only distinguished from one another in that they are differently defined by reason.†   (source)
  • …native sagacity, and a nameless something more,—let us call it intuition; if he show no intrusive egotism, nor disagreeable prominent characteristics of his own; if he have the power, which must be born with him, to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient's, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought; if such revelations be received without tumult, and acknowledged not so often by an uttered sympathy as by silence, an inarticulate…†   (source)
  • Do not mistake me, I beg, for it is not color nor lineage that constitutes merit; and I know not that he who claims affinity to the proper owners of this soil has not the best right to tread these hills with the lightest conscience.†   (source)
  • 'He has just had a basin of beautiful strong broth, sir,' replied Mrs. Bedwin: drawing herself up slightly, and laying strong emphasis on the last word: to intimate that between slops, and broth will compounded, there existed no affinity or connection whatsoever.†   (source)
  • That instinctive sense of right which appeared to shield her from the commission of wrong, and even cast a mantle of moral loveliness and truth around her character, could not penetrate abstrusities, or trace the nice affinities between cause and effect, beyond their more obvious and indisputable connection, though she seldom failed to see all the latter, and to defer to all their just consequences.†   (source)
  • Some commission by which you can assert an authority to proceed, or by which you may claim an affinity and a communion with your fellow-workers in the same beneficent pursuits!†   (source)
  • When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for time began with man.†   (source)
  • At sixteen, the mind that has the strongest affinity for fact cannot escape illusion and self-flattery; and Tom, in sketching his future, had no other guide in arranging his facts than the suggestions of his own brave self-reliance.†   (source)
  • The dress of this patriarch—for such, considering his vast age, in conjunction with his affinity and influence with his people, he might very properly be termed—was rich and imposing, though strictly after the simple fashions of the tribe.†   (source)
  • Every religion is to be found in juxtaposition to a political opinion which is connected with it by affinity.†   (source)
  • 'You don't mean to say that there is any affinity between nautical matters and ecclesiastical matters?'†   (source)
  • From magnetism little by little Rodolphe had come to affinities, and while the president was citing Cincinnatus and his plough, Diocletian, planting his cabbages, and the Emperors of China inaugurating the year by the sowing of seed, the young man was explaining to the young woman that these irresistible attractions find their cause in some previous state of existence.†   (source)
  • There existed between him and the old church so profound an instinctive sympathy, so many magnetic affinities, so many material affinities, that he adhered to it somewhat as a tortoise adheres to its shell.†   (source)
  • She knew that being thrown together again under such terrible circumstances they would again fall in love with one another, and that Nicholas would then not be able to marry Princess Mary as they would be within the prohibited degrees of affinity.†   (source)
  • But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham—when she read with somewhat clearer attention a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself—her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.†   (source)
  • The former were not slow in connecting themselves with the daughters of the natives, but there was an unfortunate affinity between the Indian character and their own: instead of giving the tastes and habits of civilized life to the savages, the French too often grew passionately fond of the state of wild freedom they found them in.†   (source)
  • The young man still replied: 'Come to the pollis!' and was dragging me against the donkey in a violent manner, as if there were any affinity between that animal and a magistrate, when he changed his mind, jumped into the cart, sat upon my box, and, exclaiming that he would drive to the pollis straight, rattled away harder than ever.†   (source)
  • And as the undefinable essence of the force moving the heavenly bodies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and so on, just in the same way does the force of free will form the content of history.†   (source)
  • Poetical affinity.†   (source)
  • It would be more true to say they separate as oil from water, as children from old people, without love or hatred in the matter, each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.†   (source)
  • There is a far greater affinity between this class of individuals and the executive power than there is between them and the people; just as there is a greater natural affinity between the nobles and the monarch than between the nobles and the people, although the higher orders of society have occasionally resisted the prerogative of the Crown in concert with the lower classes.†   (source)
  • The animal you describe is in truth a species of the bos ferus, (or bos sylvestris, as he has been happily called by the poets,) but, though of close affinity, it is altogether distinct from the common bubulus.†   (source)
  • I should be greatly ignorant not to have often dwelt with delight on so beautiful a theory, and one which so triumphantly establishes two positions, which I have often maintained are unanswerable, even without such living testimony in their favour—viz. that this continent can claim a more remote affinity with civilisation than the time of Columbus, and that colour is the fruit of climate and condition, and not a regulation of nature.†   (source)
  • Money is not essential, but this wide affinity is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste, and makes itself felt by men of all classes.†   (source)
  • The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion, for that affinity they find in it.†   (source)
  • The rulers of society must be up to the work of the world, and equal to their versatile office: men of the right Caesarian pattern,[384] who have great range of affinity.†   (source)
  • By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather, not I, but the Deity in me and in them, both deride and cancel the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex and circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.†   (source)
  • I know not, but I fear it not; for my relation to them is so pure, that we hold by simple affinity, and the Genius[286] of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women, wherever I may be.†   (source)
  • POLARITY,[97] or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole[98] of the heart; in the undulations of fluids, and of sound; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.†   (source)
  • There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.†   (source)
  • [447] She was a solvent powerful to reconcile all heterogeneous persons into one society; like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities, that it combines readily with a thousand substances.†   (source)
  • Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement, namely that like draws to like, and that the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?†   (source)
  • We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them Sisters: but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition?†   (source)
  • And so when the king was come with the queen and many knights of the Round Table, then the queen was put there in the Constable's ward, and a great fire made about an iron stake, that an Sir Mador de la Porte had the better, she should be burnt: such custom was used in those days, that neither for favour, neither for love nor affinity, there should be none other but righteous judgment, as well upon a king as upon a knight, and as well upon a queen as upon another poor lady.†   (source)
  • The stichic form of English verse that is closest to the hexameter in length and in its affinity for long narratives is the medieval "fourteener," a predominantly iambic ( v - ) line broken into phrases of four and three stresses.†   (source)
  • If it be affirmed that rhyme and metrical arrangement of themselves constitute a distinction which overturns what I have been saying on the strict affinity of metrical language with that of prose, and paves the way for other artificial distinctions which the mind voluntarily admits, I answer that the language of such Poetry as I am recommending is, as far as is possible, a selection of the language really spoken by men; that this selection, wherever it is made with true taste and…†   (source)
  • Scholars who can compare early Greek poetry with the epic traditions of ancient India have found affinities in theme and phraseology with the stories of noble warriors, wife-stealing, and dynastic struggle with the gods that are told in the Ramayana and Mahabharata.†   (source)
  • Zoey, you have never before manifested an affinity for prophecy or visions.   (source)
    affinity = a natural interest, attraction, and ability
  • Neferet thought I might have an affinity for cats!   (source)
  • his voice ... that breathed an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted,   (source)
    affinity = a natural attraction
  • the Moor replies that he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus and great affinity   (source)
    affinity = has a natural attraction
  • I cannot emphasize this enough: Dad has a strong affinity for Cat Stevens (the cat).†   (source)
  • So it was true, I did have some kind of affinity with all five of the elements.†   (source)
  • And then my affinity for the five elements helped me to overcome the block and remember?†   (source)
  • We think Stevie Rae might have developed an earth affinity:' Shaunee blinked.†   (source)
  • Only a High Priestess with a major affinity for the elements would—†   (source)
  • Zoey, maybe you have yet another affinity.†   (source)
  • Besides my affinity for our lovely felines and my abilities as a healer, I am also an intuitive.†   (source)
  • No one has ever had an affinity for each of the five elements.†   (source)
  • And she does have a powerful affinity, which has to mean that Nyx has special plans for her.†   (source)
  • It would be fantastic if Stevie Rae had an earth affinity.†   (source)
  • My main affinity is for cats; I have a connection with them that is unusual, even for a vampyre.†   (source)
  • You know that Aphrodite's Goddess-given affinity was to be able to foresee disastrous events?†   (source)
  • She saved the life of a young man and tapped into a Goddess-given affinity for the elements.†   (source)
  • My affinity, or power, given to me by Nyx was the ability to materialize the five elements.†   (source)
  • They are already the 'in' group, and Aphrodite has been leader of the Dark Daughters since her affinity became obvious during her fifth former year.†   (source)
  • I had an affinity for the five elements, which meant that I had been gifted with incredible powers by an ancient goddess.†   (source)
  • Or the affinity can be for something in the physical realm, like a special connection to one of the four elements, or to animals.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't you if you just found out you were the only fledgling in known history to have an affinity for all five elements?†   (source)
  • Air was definitely a female affinity, and it would be nothing short of incredible for Nyx to gift Damien with an air affinity.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae has an affinity for earth!†   (source)
  • Every High Priestess is given an affinity—what you would probably think of as special powers—by the Goddess.†   (source)
  • I'd cast one circle with my friends a month ago as a little experiment to see if I really had an affinity for the elements, or if I'd been delusional.†   (source)
  • I don't think there's a record of any High Priestess who has had an affinity with all five elements:' Damien's voice got more excited as he spoke.†   (source)
  • What if I tell Neferet and she makes me take some kind of weird affinity test (in this school, who knew?†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae has an affinity for earth!†   (source)
  • Using my affinity for the elements, I managed to banish the ghosts back to wherever it is they live (or unlive?†   (source)
  • There hasn't been a priestess with an affinity for all four of the elements for hundreds of years:' "Five," I said miserably.†   (source)
  • And I ask that earth be with this very special fledgling, Stevie Rae Johnson, who has been so newly gifted with an affinity for the element.†   (source)
  • Plus, if you really do have an affinity for the five elements, I'll bet we'll be able to sense it when you cast your own circle.†   (source)
  • Do you know how embarrassed I'd be if I told people 'hey, I'm the only fledgling ever to have an affinity for all the elements' and it turned out to be nerves?†   (source)
  • She died in my arms, Grandma, just minutes after Nyx gifted her with an affinity for the element earth?'†   (source)
  • In Soc class I'd learned that it was unusual for a gift as strong as an affinity for an element to be given to a male.†   (source)
  • Technically, that was the conclusion of the Cherokee prayer my grandma had taught me, but I felt the need to add: "And Nyx, I don't understand why you Marked me and why you have given me the gift of an affinity for the elements.†   (source)
  • What's her affinity?†   (source)
  • After a while I said, "I didn't think it could happen to a fledgling who had been given an affinity by Nyx.†   (source)
  • Having an elemental affinity was a powerful gift from Nyx, and I would definitely love it if my best friend had been blessed like that from our Goddess.†   (source)
  • The affinities can be unusual cognitive skills, like reading minds or having visions and being able to predict the future.†   (source)
  • You're the only third former ever to have been made leader of the Dark Daughters and the only fledgling or vampyre in history who has shown an affinity for all five of the elements?†   (source)
  • Zoey's quick thinking and bravery made sure no one got hurt, and at the same time she connected with a special affinity she has been given to draw energy from the five elements?'†   (source)
  • She had been a famous vampyre High Priestess whose Goddess-given gift was an affinity, or a special connection, for the earth, which is probably where the "turn to stone" myth came from.†   (source)
  • "I have no affinity for these things, but I do care about what happens to Zoey, and she has been gifted with an affinity for all five elements," Erik said.†   (source)
  • You're the first fledgling to have a colored-in, expanded Mark, as well as the only vamp, fledgling or adult, to have an affinity for all five of the elements.†   (source)
  • I have an affinity for fire!†   (source)
  • Water is my affinity!†   (source)
  • I wasn't exactly the boss of them, but my friends respected that I was in training to someday be their High Priestess, so they obediently walked to the place in the circle that I had assigned to each of them weeks ago when it had only been the five of us, and I was casting a circle to try to figure out if I really had a Goddess-given affinity, or if I just had very little sense and an overactive imagination.†   (source)
  • Nyx gifted men with exceptional strength, and their affinities usually had to do with the physical, like Dragon, our fencing instructor, had been gifted with exceptional quickness and visual accuracy.†   (source)
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