Adjacent

Examples

• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The forms of furnaces and means for lining and cooling the hearth and adjacent parts have received great attention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The mole should be surrounded by a little cell or ring of wax, so that the acid can be applied direct without fear of disorganizing the adjacent skin. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The women and non-combatants were carried to Salamis and various adjacent islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mouthpiece A had adjacent to the cylinder a flexible diaphragm carrying a little point or stylus which bore against the tin foil on the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He secured possession of a port, Amphipolis, and certain gold mines adjacent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When the wireless operator wishes to send a message to another station he listens in, as it is called, by connecting his receiving apparatus with the adjacent antenna and the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He takes Mrs. Snagsby by the hand and leads her aside to an adjacent cask. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The service for which this car is intended is primarily to guard railroads and depots adjacent to railroads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On an adjacent island lived a kind of semi-pirate called Alcibiades, who was, and is, a thorough blackguard. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Marlborough Mills and the adjacent dwelling were held under a long lease; they must, if possible, be relet. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The air pressure served to overcome the momentum and to close the chamber and at the same time forced the water received into the air chamber up an adjacent pipe. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors of the adjacent zoological garden. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what a heater is in an urn, and keeps them simmering all night. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Monsieur Isidor disappeared into his master's adjacent bedroom, bearing off the flowered dressing-gown. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Watson, who was at the receiver in an adjacent room. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In this practice one or more artificial teeth are firmly held in the place of missing teeth by a strong bridge-piece of metal, which at its ends is anchored to the adjacent natural teeth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is thus attracted toward an adjacent electromagnet when cold and is uninfluenced when hot, and as the result motion is produced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The driving engine and shafting are compactly placed at one end or side of the room, with boilers and kettles conveniently adjacent. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Menai tubular railway bridge, adjacent to the suspension bridge of Telford across the same strait, and already described, was the first example of this type of bridge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Preceptor Albert waited impatiently in an adjacent chamber the return of Bois-Guilbert. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Two fine examples of this type are found, one in a bridge across the Niagara adjacent to the suspension bridge above described and one across the river Forth at Queens Ferry in Scotland. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was the custom of Adrian and myself to go out each day in our skiff to forage in the adjacent country. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Finding ourselves now posted securely, and having a place to retreat to on occasion, we ventured out in parties to scour the adjacent country. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When the waters of rivers adjacent to towns and cities thus began to be pumped for drinking purposes, _strainers_ and _filters_ of various kinds were invented of necessity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But this was found to be attended with great inconvenience, for the pitch cracked, and electric communication was established between the adjacent wires. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Adjacent to these rooms are several others devoted to physical and mechanical experiments, together with a draughting-room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The next man adjacent was John Kruesi, afterward engineer of the great General Electric Works at Schenectady. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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