Sentence Examples with the word Adjacent

Richardson, is built in the Romanesque style of southern France; it is a Latin cross surmounted by a massive central tower, with smaller towers and an adjacent chapel reached by open cloisters that distribute the balance (see Architecture, Plate XVI.

But on the other hand the adjacent island of Ceylon has been administratively severed and placed under the Colonial Office.

The noble buildings, contrasting strangely with the wharves adjacent and opposite to it, make a striking picture, standing on the low river-bank with a background formed by the wooded elevation of Greenwich Park.

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In the year 1867 the United States government had purchased from Russia all her territorial rights in Alaska and the adjacent islands.

In length and of varying width, and, reckoning in the adjacent island of Vivara, is made up of four extinct craters, parts of the margins of all of which have been destroyed by the sea.

She started towards the forest hedging the road adjacent to the condo community.

SODOR AND MAN, the name of the bishopric of the Church of England which includes the Isle of Man and adjacent islets.

The walls of the calices and coenenchymal tubes are formed of flat plates of calcite, which are so disposed that the walls of one tube enter into the composition of the walls of adjacent tubes, and the walls of the calices are formed by the walls of adjacent coenenchymal tubes.

The great difference in character, however, between the Silurian strata at Pomeroy in county Tyrone and the adjacent metamorphic series makes it highly probable that the latter masses are truly Archean.

There was a cemetery adjacent to the village in which both unburnt and cremated interments occurred, the former predominating.