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contiguous
1. They were amassing a large contiguous plot of land about twenty miles into the chaparral
2. There was another faction who felt that it was acceptable to do daily business with the locals but retain their own culture with no more 'political boundary' than land ownership, and a third group who wanted to remain in voluntary association like the core of any other ethnic group, but not be required to join one contiguous territory
3. His own property was almost three miles in length while that of the 'boundaryists' or 'nationalists' was almost three by five miles of almost contiguous ranchland just a little farther south of him
4. Geographers all agree that the contiguous urban area that has grown from that campsite is now over a hundred million people
5. This was another reminder that humans made up one half the weight of macrofauna in and on the contiguous building called Zhlindu
6. “There’s no way this is Earth technology,” said Chris, “We can make stuff that’s pretty resistant, but to take on a diamond tipped drill and remain unscratched? And how would you make a large, contiguous block of such material?”
7. Ground which forms the key to three contiguous states, so that he who occupies it first has most of the Empire at his command, is a ground of intersecting highways
8. The “Coquín” was, and still is, a mass of meadows within the confines of Fuentesnuevas, contiguous to
9. Thomas is contiguous to the Atlantic Ocean to the north, while its beaches to the south breathe the air of the Caribbean Sea
10. Very close to there, in one of the contiguous rooms, Americus also was thinking about Leonardo
11. A handful of the bravest – ten or twenty – continued on to North America, where the Bering Strait was frozen over forming a contiguous connection between Russia and what would one day be Alaska
12. An ‘All Points Bulletin’, or ‘APB’, would be issued in all the contiguous states, for a military
13. The empire he presided over would grow to be the largest non-colonial, the largest contiguous, and the second largerst empire by area the world has ever known
14. ” then the many other faces of her populated the contiguous stream of one self to another
15. contiguous verbs, the second ofwhich is subordinate to the first,
16. contiguous vowels as onesyllable or more than one
17. In terms of transpersonal psychology there appeared some contiguous
18. The spinal column and its contiguous muscles, ligaments and tendons are all designed to move, and limitations in this motion can accentuate pain and make one more susceptible to re-injury
19. lovingly contiguous: yet such as they were, this great beef-eater seemed
20. It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit, that whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time and walked an immense distance, it perceptibly came from a closely contiguous wall
21. The summit of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States, was closer still, a short detour off the PCT
22. The baroness returned to the hotel with as much caution as Eugenie used in leaving it; she ran lightly up-stairs, and with an aching heart entered her apartment, contiguous, as we know, to that of Eugenie
23. At Stephen's suggestion, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first Bloom's, then Stephen's, elevated to the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow
24. heard approaching along a contiguous street
25. I followed him up the green marble pathway through a contiguous line of pyramidal teak pavilions to the entrance of what Hal called “the main
26. Protected by a nearly contiguous chain of islands beginning with Nearpalm in the north and anchored by Crab Shell Island at the extreme southern end, it offered scores of protected anchorages, most of them with deep-water access
27. But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids when he wished to contemplate contiguous womankind
28. The brilliant sunrise made her unusually brisk; she decided to open the contiguous mansion immediately, and to air it thoroughly on such a day
29. Kinnakee is almost in the middle of Kansas, not so far from the Nebraska border, and it once claimed to be the geographic center of the forty-eight contiguous United States
30. Summarized in the shaded boxes below are the 2013 federal poverty guidelines for households of one to four people for the 48 contiguous states
31. The domains in a tree share a contiguous name space
32. Sharing a contiguous name space means that if the first domain in a tree is given the name mycorp
33. HDDs work best with files that have been written with contiguous blocks, like most internal drives do today
34. And so without particularly analyzing all the contiguous sections of a cone and of the ranks of an army, or the ranks and positions in any administrative or public business whatever from the lowest to the highest, we see a law by which men, to take associated action, combine in such relations that the more directly they participate in performing the action the less they can command and the participation in the action itself, the more they command and the fewer of them there are; rising in this way from the lowest ranks to the man at the top, who takes the least direct share in the action and directs his activity chiefly to commanding
35. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery
36. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with corn-flowers
37. He was acquainted with thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own
38. The truth is that Juvenal Urbino’s suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love
39. A model farm! where the house stands like a fungus in a muckheap, chambers for men, horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and uncleansed, all contiguous to one another! Stocked with men! A great grease-spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk! Under a high state of cultivation, being manured with the hearts and brains of men! As if you were to raise your potatoes in the churchyard! Such is a model farm
40. And so without particularly analyzing all the contiguous sections of a cone and of the ranks of an army, or the ranks and positions in any administrative or public business whatever from the lowest to the highest, we see a law by which men, to take associated action, combine in such relations that the more directly they participate in performing the action the less they can command and the more numerous they are, while the less their direct participation in the action itself, the more they command and the fewer of them there are; rising in this way from the lowest ranks to the man at the top, who takes the least direct share in the action and directs his activity chiefly to commanding
41. The courts of justice shut in one of the Southern States; executions suspended in a State contiguous to this; and Maryland reduced to the same necessity, from the circumstance of there being no market for our produce
42. In a manner, not easily understood, the whole quantity of powder under the large glass instantly exploded with an astounding report; but the glass was not exploded—it was merely thrown up a little; in its fall it was shattered, and broke a glass which it hit, but no fragment was projected, and none of the other contiguous tubes and glasses were even overset, nor were any of a large audience, and some of them very near, even scratched; but the plank, one and a half inch thick, on which the powder lay, had a hole blown quite through, almost as large as the palm of one's hand
43. The shells occur in three places as you cross it, and again, on two contiguous hills to the east of it, at the distance of four miles
