The very contiguity of his enemy, beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale.
According to Hume, as ideas flow through our minds, as when we are daydreaming, they may seem random, but they are all connected together with three principles of association: resemblance, contiguity, cause and effect.
She stood by a window, holding a book in close contiguity to her nose, as if with the hope of gaining an olfactory acquaintance with its contents, since her imperfect vision made it not very easy to read them.