RELATION in Classic Quotes

1  Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW

2  But, it must now be said, another portion of the community had latterly begun to take its own view of the relation betwixt Mr. Dimmesdale and the mysterious old physician.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH

3  It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION

4  Nor did his demeanour change when the withdrawal of the prison keeper left him face to face with the woman, whose absorbed notice of him, in the crowd, had intimated so close a relation between himself and her.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW

5  In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT

6  It was understood that this learned man was the physician as well as friend of the young minister, whose health had severely suffered of late by his too unreserved self-sacrifice to the labours and duties of the pastoral relation.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER