In time, these gave place to rows of abutting stone buildings with tiled roofs.

Save in the bustling business segment, abutting the four corners, where the old United States road bore off westward to Bucephalo and the lakes, the few score houses were set far back from the highway in a wilderness of shrubbery, secluded by hedges and shaded by an almost primeval growth of elms or maples.

A good road may be the making of a town, and it increases the value of all abutting property.

It seems that, some time agoI can't say when exactly, but it was before I came down herethis unnatural son introduced to the parental abode (which I think is either No. 5 or No. 6 in a row of young chestnuts abutting on the high road) a rook of more than dubious reputation, whom he persuaded his unsuspecting sire to put up for the night.

He now made swiftly for some small tents abutting the performers' tent.

Years ago Duke Philip built a house for him abutting the walls of Peronne Castle.

The Hardwick mill to which they now came consisted of a number of large, red brick buildings, joined by covered passage-ways, abutting on one of those sullen pools Johnnie had noted the night before, the yard enclosed by a tight board fence, so high that the operatives in the first-and second-floor rooms could not see the street.