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Her bedroom was adjoining, and across a small passage were the dining room and kitchen.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Her bedroom was adjoining, and across a small passage were the dining-room and kitchen.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Lot Gordon got up, moving by inches, with infinite care and pains, dressed himself, crawled out of his bedroom into his library, which was adjoining, and sat down at his desk.

From Madelon A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Her room was adjoining this lady’s, who told me she heard the mother crying: “O God, give me strength for the hour; help me now.”

From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman

A blazing fire of pine wood soon gave cheerfulness to the vast and somewhat desolate apartment into which our friends had been ushered; their sleeping-room was adjoining, but separated.

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield