1840 examples of adjoin in sentences

These animals are found throughout the plains, living together in a sort of society; their numberless burrows in their "towns" adjoin each other, so that great care is necessary in riding through these places, as the ground is so undermined as often to fall in under the weight of a horse.

The vast reception-rooms, worthy of the name of state-rooms, adjoin the small stone-built apartments of the fortress which Paul's ancestors held against the Tartars.

These districts adjoin Mogador, the city belonging to Hhaha.

These garrets, which adjoin each other, all open on the same corridor, a narrow passage, which runs the length of the main building.

This room appeared to adjoin a shop.

Day and Sunday schools adjoin the Church.

The schools which adjoin are attended, during week days, by upwards of 220 scholars; and on Sundays the attendance, including the various classes, with their teachers, &c., will be about 450.

Bathrooms reserved for the patients adjoin the infirmary, and there is a kitchen service for preparing special diet.

V. be near &c adj.; adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn. touch &c 199; bring near, draw near &c 286; converge &c 290; crowd &c 72; place side by side &c adv..

V. be contiguous &c adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c 46.

The Open Town and the Black Town {226} adjoin the fortified portions, and are considerably larger.

Almost on a level with us lies the upper city, the aristocratic Fez Eldjid of painted palaces and gardens, then, as the houses close in and descend more abruptly, terraces, minarets, domes, and long reed-thatched roofs of the bazaars, all gather around the green-tiled tomb of Moulay Idriss and the tower of the Almohad mosque of El Kairouiyin, which adjoin each other in the depths of Fez, and form its central sanctuary.

In connection with the two churches which adjoin each other so closely, tradition tells the well-known story of the two quarrelsome sisters who could not agree on the building of a church and therefore each built one.

The three parishes of Hatherop, Quenington, and Coln-St.-Aldwyns practically adjoin each other.

A large one posteriorly running up behind the second phalanx to nearly adjoin the sesamoidean bursæ, and a small one, a prolongation of the synovial membrane between the antero-lateral and postero-lateral ligaments of the same side.

When these two (friendship and confidence) conjoin themselves with the first love of marriage, there is effected conjugial love, which opens the bosoms, and inspires the sweets of that love; and this more and more thoroughly, in proportion as those two principles adjoin themselves to the primitive love, and that love enters into them, and vice versa.

From these considerations it is evident, that to adjoin a concubine to a wife, and to make each a partner of the bed, is filthy polygamy.

The soul and mind adjoin themselves closely to the flesh of the body, to operate and produce their effects, 178.

What vapour did not escape in this manner, found its way through between the sterns of the trees which adjoin these buildings, and through the palace windows.

Seemingly close about us are the various land masses which adjoin the summit: it looks as though we might have difficulties in the last narrows.

Your slave territory will still adjoin territory inhabited by free men who are inimical to your institution; but these men will no longer be bound by any of the restrictions which have obtained under the Constitution.

Council Bluffs Station is four miles from Omaha Station, but the towns adjoin.

Of these four considerations the most important is whether the neighbourhood bears a bad reputation: for there are many farms which are fit for cultivation but not expedient to undertake on account of the brigandage in the neighbourhood, as in Sardinia those farms which adjoin Oelium, and in Spain those on the borders of Lusitania.

CASSITER`IDES, islands in the Atlantic, which the Phoenician sailors visited to procure tin; presumed to have been the Scilly Islands or Cornwall, which they adjoin.

His estates adjoined hers; family interests were concerned in their union; and the parents on both sides arranged matters.

1840 examples of  adjoin  in sentences