English vocabulary examples in context: abut
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 1.
This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours, the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 2.
This wall did not abut directly on the Street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 3.
The wall above which he saw the linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, and spend the remainder of the night.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 4.
In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 5.
All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and on a house at the other.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 6.
The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the garden was separated from it by a hedge.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 7.
At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was suppressed later on.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 8.
The broad external staircase, of tinted bricks, abutted on the square.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 9.
The kind of hole acting as a door, which the sheet of iron had just revealed, and on which the stairs abutted, was formed in the vault, so that the eye looked down from it as into a well.
Vocabulary in context: abut -- Example 10.
Gwynplaine, after having searched every yard of ground, left the green, struck into the crooked streets abutting on the site called East Point, and directed his steps towards the Thames.
