Which preposition to use with adjacent
A small yard is built on the bank of a stream adjacent to a deep place.
They had been there but a short time when Hanford recognized a voice from the stall adjacent as belonging to the representative of the Atlantic Bridge Company.
Among reptiles, the two become adjacent for the first time, and among birds one part occupies the meshes of the other.
Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused, the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed.