contiguous

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In addition, certain families allied to the Nurses by blood or friendship, and whose farms were contiguous with the Nurse farm or close to it, combined to break away from the Salem town authority and set up Topsfield, a new and independent entity whose existence was resented by old Salemites.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick ... contiguous to absolutely nothing.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

A single contiguous continent covered the surface.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

But if you put the remaining areas up on the board, I think you'll find that the eight percent is topologically unified, meaning that those areas are contiguous.†  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Crops of unusual diversity grew in profusion and contiguity, with not an inch of ground untended.†  (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

Every story, when we were children, revealed a lesson—"work hard" (the pioneers had no machines to dig their drainage lines or plant their crops), or "respect your elders" (an old man had no heirs, and left the farm to the neighbor kid who had cheerfully and obediently worked for him), or "don't tell your neighbors your business," or "luck is something you make for yourself " The story of how my father and his father came to possess a thousand contiguous acres taught us all these lessons, and though we didn't hear it often, we remembered it perfectly.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

In the civilized life of to-day the contact of men and their relations to each other fall in a few main lines of action and communication: there is, first, the physical proximity of home and dwelling-places, the way in which neighborhoods group themselves, and the contiguity of neighborhoods.†  (source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

Urine is conducted through a primitive urethra terminating in a small chamber contiguous with the anus-a sort of crude cloaca.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The latter was the eternal, living principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no longer an integral.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

This district is the largest contiguous planned community in the United States, and if you're black or Jewish, you weren't allowed to live there until 1948.†  (source) John Corey Whaley, Nogin, 2014

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.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

The truth is that Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

Nature has placed them in contiguity, and has furnished the former with every means of knowing and appreciating those demands, of establishing a permanent connection with those States, and of gradually filling their markets.†  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835