He swept her questionings away with the wave of the arm of one who sweeps his surroundings clear of rubbish, and the most that could be extracted from him was a general observation as to the small amount of good to be obtained from proximities.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
The table-it was a flimsy card-table covered with a cheap traycloth stiff with starch-accounted for all awkwardnesses and proximities; again she found it secretly delicious to murmur a demure apology for its smallness.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
There he was, going into that small, uncomfortable room every night, that room whose proximities had been Lotty's only misgiving, and coming out of it in the morning, and Lotty coming out of it too, both of them as unclouded and as nice to each other as when they went in.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim