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  • The doors abutted one another so closely that the rooms behind them could not have been more than ten feet wide.†   (source)
  • In the broad, covered corridor—the colonnaded kuthambalam abutting the heart of the temple where the Blue God lived with his flute, the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, their colors turning slowly in the night.†   (source)
  • Horan and Murray are still convinced Nathaniel is close to trading his tunnel for an apartment, so much so that they're holding on to one that has just become available in a residential complex that abuts the back side of the Lamp property.†   (source)
  • The prize should preferably be a book abut philosophy for young people.†   (source)
  • The orange sun was a handsbreadth above the horizon when Saphira sailed through the mouth of the valley and out over the flat, empty grasslands that abutted the Beor Mountains.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Patrick walked into the abutting shower room and glanced out the window.†   (source)
  • The master bedroom abutted a smaller apartment that stretched back, away from the street.†   (source)
  • " Munawar's home abutted a lot in Amman where young men played soccer in the afternoons.†   (source)
  • I looked at the little structure, barely as big as my bathroom, abutted against an identical box.†   (source)
  • The Hardwick mill to which they now came consisted of a number of large, red brick buildings, joined by covered passage-ways, abutting on one of those sullen pools Johnnie had noted the night before, the yard enclosed by a tight board fence, so high that the operatives in the first-and second-floor rooms could not see the street.†   (source)
  • At the far end was a lone standing structure, a derelict tenement with an exposed wall where another building had once abutted.†   (source)
  • Apo, himself a refugee whose ancestral home, Dras, abuts the Gultori, on the Indian side of the border, wandered from tent to tent, taking orders for urgently needed supplies.†   (source)
  • By pushing on the belly he could establish whether a tumor was fixed to the bowel or abutted on the spleen.†   (source)
  • Its wood had barely weathered, nor that of the new gate and fence abutting.†   (source)
  • How can there be abut?†   (source)
  • Not on the morrow, nor the day after … abut soon, whenever Melisandre needs to wake a dragon or raise a wind or work some other spell requiring king's blood.†   (source)
  • Kartik yanks me up, and we hobble to the stern, where the boat abuts another, smaller vessel behind it.†   (source)
  • This careful attention to property rights was perhaps made necessary by the presence of two other wolf families whose lands abutted on ours, although I never discovered any evidence of bickering or disagreements between the owners of the various adjoining estates.†   (source)
  • Far ahead of them, the plain abutted a tall range of hills.†   (source)
  • He was heading toward the training track, which abutted the main track's clubhouse turn.†   (source)
  • What could possibly follow all this fire that starts with abut?†   (source)
  • The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop.†   (source)
  • And through the mist of centuries the broken boy could only watch as the man's feet drummed against the earth … abut as his life flowed out of him in a red tide, Brandon Stark could taste the blood.†   (source)
  • There it was: a small southern town, cut through by railroad tracks and abutting the river of concrete that was I-285.†   (source)
  • I FOUND HEMA, hands crossed in front of her, gazing out of the window at the lights of the Battleship housing project that abutted our house-staff quarters, and the distant outline of the bridge beyond.†   (source)
  • After a thirty-minute ride, the caseworker pulled into the Willow Ridge apartment complex, an assemblage of two-story buildings that sits atop a hill and abuts the roaring interstate highway they had just exited.†   (source)
  • They walked across town, talking weightily of politics, across the Square, down Hatton Avenue, south into Church, and southwesterly along the bending road that ended in the schoolhouse on the abutting hill.†   (source)
  • On one side, as far as eye could reach, was a row of terraces, the most remote of which abutted on a dark, rugged mass that they recognized as the hill nearest the town.†   (source)
  • The cottage that abutted on the churchyard was empty, and no other house stood near.†   (source)
  • All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and on a house at the other.†   (source)
  • 'From the shadow of this wall, I think,' said I, as we emerged upon a road on which a wall abutted.†   (source)
  • The villa and its grounds were made out of a row of peasant dwellings that abutted on the cliff—five small houses had been combined to make the house and four destroyed to make the garden.†   (source)
  • The window, the narrow end of the desk abutting it, had been covered with a black cloth, in front of which had been hung a cream-colored, open lacework curtain.†   (source)
  • I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I had solved my problem.†   (source)
  • He vanished behind a laburnum, and appeared again clambering over a fence that abutted on the open down.†   (source)
  • The sun was so near the ground, and the sward so flat, that the shadows of Clare and Tess would stretch a quarter of a mile ahead of them, like two long fingers pointing afar to where the green alluvial reaches abutted against the sloping sides of the vale.†   (source)
  • The flower-scented breeze and the rumbling of the river persisted long after the valley lay behind and above, but these failed at length in the close air of the huge abutting walls.†   (source)
  • This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours, the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quitted.†   (source)
  • To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to-shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuel-house.†   (source)
  • It was not, in appearance, so desirable a habitation as his old quarters: being a mean and badly-furnished apartment, of very limited size; lighted only by one small window in the shelving roof, and abutting on a close and dirty lane.†   (source)
  • The paddock abutted on this end of the building, and in the paddock she could just discern by the uncertain gray a moving figure approaching the horse that was feeding there.†   (source)
  • After the meal, Georgy was lolling in the cushions of the old window, a large window, with three sides of glass abutting from the gable, and commanding on one side the market-place, where the Elephant is, his mother being busy hard by, when he remarked symptoms of movement at the Major's house on the other side of the street.†   (source)
  • This scroll, majestic in its severe simplicity, illuminated a little slip of front garden abutting on the thirsty high-road, where a few of the dustiest of leaves hung their dismal heads and led a life of choking.†   (source)
  • It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud when the tide was out, and literally overrun with rats.†   (source)
  • What right had the unclean and stupid farmer, whose farm abutted on this sky water, whose shores he has ruthlessly laid bare, to give his name to it?†   (source)
  • In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land.†   (source)
  • Hence to-night the wheat-fields abutting on the two sides of the square formed by Casterbridge town were animated by the gathering hands.†   (source)
  • There is no rawness nor imperfection in its edge there, as where the axe has cleared a part, or a cultivated field abuts on it.†   (source)
  • The neighbouring Market House and Town Hall abutted against its next neighbour the Church except in the lower storey, where an arched thoroughfare gave admittance to a large square called Bull Stake.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER L THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe abuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on the river blackest with the dust of colliers and the smoke of close-built low-roofed houses, there exists the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London, wholly unknown, even by name, to the great mass of its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • None of the best rooms abutted on the road; and the narrow, heavily-framed old-fashioned windows, never cheerful under any circumstances, looked very dismal, close shut, and with their blinds always drawn down.†   (source)
  • This wall did not abut directly on the Street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur.†   (source)
  • …his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these are bouquets."†   (source)
  • The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the garden was separated from it by a hedge.†   (source)
  • At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was suppressed later on.†   (source)
  • The wall above which he saw the linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, and spend the remainder of the night.†   (source)
  • The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the requirements of their parishes brought to D—— The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into a kitchen and cellar.†   (source)
  • …to the commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Elysees, above the outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead…†   (source)
  • He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he heard voices talking very close by.†   (source)
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