Example Sentences

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"Dat suttinly am a most inconsequential mannah in which to project a transmigatory object in contiguousness to mah predistination."

From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy

In all these cases, the contiguousness of similar, or dissimilar growths, is not stated.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

They were bound together by the contiguousness of their back yards and front porches, and by a community of interest in taxes and water-rates and the high cost of living.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

To some extent, however, their contiguousness to the aristocratic class has now the effect of materializing them, as it does the class of newly enriched people.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage