All 4 Uses of
adjacent
in
1776, by McCullough
- By noon a fully equipped army of 15,000 men and forty pieces of artillery had landed and rapidly, smoothly assembled in perfect formation on the adjacent plain.†
p. 157.4 *adjacent = nearby
- It all made a picturesque scene, wrote Ambrose Serle15,000 troops upon a fine beach ...[then] forming upon the adjacent plain....Ships and vessels with their sails spread open to dry, the sun shining clear upon them, the green hills and meadows after the rain....Add to all this, the vast importance of the business ...and the mind feels itself wonderfully engaged.†
p. 157.7
- "This and the parts adjacent is the most beautiful and fertile spot I have yet seen in America," recorded Ambrose Serle, who was disturbed only by the reek of the unburied dead still strewn about in the fields.†
p. 192.5
- Such ferocity as the Americans had shown appears to have stunned Howe, leading him to conclude that, with stone walls lining every road and adjacent field, more deadly fire could be waiting at any turn.†
p. 232.9
Definition:
very near -- often directly beside