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.
The parts of a line bear a relative position to each other, for each lies somewhere, and it would be possible to distinguish each, and to state the position of each on the plane and to explain to what sort of part among the rest each was
contiguous.
Sir William Howe and his guests stood at the doors of the
contiguous apartments, watching the progress of this singular pageant, with various emotions of anger, contempt, or half-acknowledged fear, but still with an anxious curiosity.
From afar he looked down upon the chateau of Porthos, situated on the shores of a small lake, and
contiguous to a magnificent forest.
The party was divided and disposed of on two
contiguous benches: Anne was among those on the foremost, and Mr Elliot had manoeuvred so well, with the assistance of his friend Colonel Wallis, as to have a seat by her.
When he opened them the room, the other
contiguous rooms, extraordinarily, seemed lighter - so light, almost, that at first he took the change for day.
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.
However, there was nothing else to consider than an attempt to scale the trees
contiguous to the cliff in an effort to reach the caves above.
As to temples for public worship, and the hall for the public tables of the chief magistrates, they ought to be built in proper places, and
contiguous to each other, except those temples which the law or the oracle orders to be separate from all other buildings; and let these be in such a conspicuous eminence, that they may have every advantage of situation, and in the neighbourhood of that part of the city which is best fortified.
Four almost
contiguous Hôtels, Jouy, Sens, Barbeau, the house of the Queen, mirrored their slate peaks, broken with slender turrets, in the Seine.
The door he built of pieces of the packing-boxes which had held their belongings, nailing one piece upon another, the grain of
contiguous layers running transversely, until he had a solid body some three inches thick and of such great strength that they were both moved to laughter as they gazed upon it.
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.
