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The Bronx abutting Westchester they're getting power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2003] Reference
We left it by a very narrow lane abutting at right angles. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
I was once crossing a series of undulating ranges abutting on Mount. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Only one other location was left, the abutting shelf of some canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Bessarabia abutting upon the embouchures of the Danube, an International. From Wordnik.com. [Roumania Past and Present] Reference
There's even a Reitman street or square abutting the place, and rightly so. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 6: Hello, Lapland!] Reference
So he puts his house close to the highway, in many cases even abutting upon it. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
"Just at the back of the house and abutting on the side of the road," I explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
The lower half was intended to have a building (which was in part begun) abutting on it. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Account of King's College Chapel] Reference
These shorter sides only have large windows, the others abutting directly upon the roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
This large mansion hath been built abutting the high ramparts of the arsenal without any outlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Lacking concrete, he'd constructed a roofless stone hut abutting the barn to serve as his manure shed. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
Endodermis the innermost layer of the cortex abutting on and forming a sheathing layer round the stele, 32. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The aisles are not decreased by this central enlargement, as they deflect through the four abutting towers. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
The laws of the state forbid that walls abutting on public property should be more than a foot and a half thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
A sole wing, that following the Seine and abutting at right angles against the Pavilion de l'Horloge, had resulted. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
In this position the machine was still traveling along with great force when it struck a thick abutting ledge of rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
The window marked by Vertue belonged to a small building abutting from the north side of the present Banqueting House. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850] Reference
It was Silverstein who built the 47th floor office tower on the last open parcel of land abutting the Trade Center site. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2002] Reference
Dilapidated re-purposed school buses, now civilian blue, ferried us from the city into a compound abutting a state prison. From Wordnik.com. [Homeless] Reference
The Doctor argued the street car line would not only pay handsome dividends but greatly enhance the value of abutting property. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
And at last I found that I had crossed a bridge over another court-yard, and gotten into another house, abutting on another street. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Ground zero for the turnaround is Bajaur, a northern tribal district abutting Afghanistan and, until recently, a Taliban stronghold. From Wordnik.com. [Where Pakistan is Winning] Reference
But with portions of the "World Report" now abutting pieces by CNN correspondents abroad, where does "perspective" end and blur begin?. From Wordnik.com. [Ted's Global Village] Reference
The road to this ferry is so steep as to be almost precipitous, and the cottages abutting on its side are embowered in fragrant bloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The position of nearest approximation is limited by the abutting of the hook at the end of the lever, M, against the side of the filter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
By attacking Muslim enclaves like Cerska, Konjevic Polje and Srebrenica, they have sought to cleanse areas abutting Serbia's western border. From Wordnik.com. [The Strategy: Accept Defeat] Reference
Murat Zyazikov, the governor of Ingushetia, so distrusts residents of the restive region abutting Chechnya that he sleeps at a local military airport in a neighboring republic. From Wordnik.com. [RUSSIAN GOVERNORS: ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN] Reference
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