Both Uses of
adjacent
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- The violence of his fall precipitated Mrs Squeers completely over an adjacent form; and Squeers striking his head against it in his descent, lay at his full length on the ground, stunned and motionless.†
Chpt 13 *
- For the purpose of carrying this object into instant execution, the manager at once repaired to a small dressing-room, adjacent, where Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(adjacent) very near -- often directly beside