Adjoining

Examples

• A private sitting-room having been engaged, bedrooms inspected, and dinner ordered, the party walked out to view the city and adjoining neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But he himself was in a little room adjoining, at work with his turning apparatus, and he called to the baronet to join him there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They slept in adjoining rooms, and Mrs. King had rushed in to Saunders. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• What has become of Mr. Brownlow, who used to live in the adjoining house, do you know? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Somerset, Lord Berwick and Lord Worcester, with your humble servant, in two private boxes adjoining each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When I first went on deck I entered the captain's room adjoining the pilot-house, and threw myself on a sofa. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He led her into an adjoining room, leaving Mrs. Yeobright by the fire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He led the way to the adjoining cell, which, as the reader is apprised, was occupied by Gurth the swineherd. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The bottle was found next morning in a hay-field adjoining the path Davy had taken. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The ringing of the bell had caused the adjoining bed-chamber to be lighted. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• With this hundred pounds I ventured to take the house adjoining mine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We found an immense crowd of men and boys there and in the adjoining streets--a perfect jam. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Wildeve at once withdrew; but before he had been half a minute in the adjoining apartment Eustacia came after him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And she ran into her adjoining bedchamber, tied on her bonnet in a flutter, came out with her shawl on her arm, and ordered Dobbin to follow. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Lady Jane had heard of the Colonel's arrival, and was waiting for her husband in the adjoining dining-room, with female instinct, auguring evil. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The aunt and niece seemed both escaping into the adjoining room. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He had several cots placed in the adjoining building, and he and a few of his most strenuous assistants worked day and night, leaving the work only for hurried meals and a snatch of sleep. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The reddleman left the house and loitered on the hill adjoining. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A labourer was at work in an adjoining field who must have witnessed all that had passed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Xodar was brought from the adjoining room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• When they reached the lofty ridge which divided the valley of Blooms-End from the adjoining valley they stood still and looked round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Watson, who helped him construct the two armatures, or vibrating discs, at the end of an electrified wire that stretched from the workshop to an adjoining room. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the time of the ballroom's being built, suppers had not been in question; and a small card-room adjoining, was the only addition. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Closing the front door and turning the key, as before, she threw open the door of the adjoining room and asked him to walk in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr Dorrit will excuse me if I remind him that Miss Dorrit is in the adjoining room, and is visible to myself while I utter her name. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Adjoining my sleeping apartment were baths, dressing rooms, and other sleeping and living apartments, in all some ten rooms on this floor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• In the morning we rode in the adjoining country, or wandered through the palaces, in search of pictures or antiquities. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As in the cells of the hive-bee, so here, the three plane surfaces in any one cell necessarily enter into the construction of three adjoining cells. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Miss Pross and he divided the night into two watches, and observed him at intervals from the adjoining room. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Editor: Zeke