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  • After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried abut the terrible number of things they didn't know about.†  (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)
  • 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)
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  • I looked at the little structure, barely as big as my bathroom, abutted against an identical box.†  (source)
  • I run along the edge of the road near the woods abutting the west side.†  (source)
  • What could possibly follow all this fire that starts with abut?†  (source)
  • On the afternoon of May 15, when the blizzard finally abated, I returned to the southeast face and climbed to the top of a slender ridge that abuts the upper peak like a flying buttress on a Gothic cathedral.†  (source)
  • For loaded B-24s, which needed well over four thousand feet for takeoff, the cropped island runways, often abutted by towering palm trees, were a challenge.†  (source)
  • Its wood had barely weathered, nor that of the new gate and fence abutting.†  (source)
  • All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and on a house at the other.†  (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 master bedroom abutted a smaller apartment that stretched back, away from the street.†  (source)
  • On our way there, we passed damp stone buildings abutting the road, the facades black with last night's rain.†  (source)
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