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The Devil in the White City
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- A middle-aged man in knife-edge whites took his message up three decks to the Marconi room adjacent to the officer's promenade.†
p. 4.6 *adjacent = nearby
- Now he climbed the steps of the adjacent Union Trust Company Bank.†
p. 31.2
- Of special concern was the fact that the buildings would be sited adjacent to newly dug canals and lagoons.†
p. 129.4
- As any engineer knew, soil under pressure tended to shift to fill adjacent excavations.†
p. 129.5
- Undeterred, Cody secured rights to a large parcel of land adjacent to the park.†
p. 133.7
- Within just a couple of blocks of Sixty-third rose huge, elaborate houses of many colors and textures, and down the street stood the Timmerman Opera House and the adjacent New Julien Hotel, whose owners had spent heavily on fine materials and expert craftsmen.†
p. 166.4
- Pangalos had secured choice ground at the middle of the Midway, adjacent to the Ferris Wheel, in a Muslim diaspora that included a Persian concession, a Moorish palace, and Sol Bloom's Algerian Village, where Bloom had converted the Algerians' premature arrival into a financial windfall.†
p. 208.2
- Distractedly, he asked Anna if she would mind going into the adjacent room, the walk-in vault, to retrieve for him a document he had left inside.†
p. 294.4
- The riders watched as the wind gripped the adjacent captive balloon and tore it from the men holding it down and briefly yanked Manager Morgan into the sky.†
p. 300.9
- From railings in front of the boxes hung triangles of silk embroidered with gold arabesques, all glowing with the light of adjacent incandescent bulbs.†
p. 313.3
- Chamberlin told Holmes to wait in an adjacent room.†
p. 325.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(adjacent) very near -- often directly beside
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)