The attack was, however, anticipated by the Makashef, who took the offensive, and attacked the detached post of Abut on the 31st December.
Abdel Kader Pasha gave orders for four companies at Sennaar and the garrison of irregulars at Abut (immediately north of Sibel) to make a combined attack on the last-mentioned place.
After these are all correctly interlaced, pull the ropes tightly together, so that the cores abut against one another.
Such growths, provided they are pedunculated and do not abut on the tympanic membrane, can sometimes also be removed by the same method; much depends on their shape and situation.
They frequently abut on the tympanic membrane, so that their removal without injuring it may be well-nigh impossible.
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.
All these enclosures abutupon the river at one end, and on a house at the other.
The basaltic strata of Prosperous Hill project only a little above the level of the gently-sloping, feldspathic streams, which wind round and abut against their upturned edges.
The Oversley woods abut very closely upon Cotterill, approaching which place there is scenery not inferior in its modest and singular sweetness to that of the vicinity of Castle Mill.
The ramifications of the primary branches are, as might be expected, in their upper part concealed among the mountains, but those near their termination abut upon the main valley, in a series of ridges separated by little streamlets.
This is the more objectionable if it happens that cross-girder ends abut against opposite sides of the web of an intermediate main girder, and are secured by the same rivets passing through.
Trough floors may be expected to show loose rivets near the ends, with a probability of excessive leakage where they abut against the webs of supporting girders.
There are in this neighbourhood some other and lower plains, but they do not abut one at the foot of the other, in the manner hereafter to be described, so characteristic of Patagonia.
In these instances no rear wall was built; the partition walls, radiating at irregular angles, abutagainst the rock itself.
In both cases the steps have been added long after the rooms against which theyabut were built.
The construction of these inclosures is frail, and the danger of pushing the stakes over by pressure from within is guarded against by employing forked braces that abut against horizontal pieces tied on 4 or 5 feet from the ground.
The way must now go either over the steep declivities of the Ngoma mountains, or around their jagged edges, where they abut on the roaring Congo.
The mountains of Regiaf abut on the White Nile, about fifty or sixty miles above Gondokoro.
Make haste, it is my master Dumali ca, cay guipa-abut ca man waiting you.
These platesabut in one part on the skin, in another, on the mean vertical plane of the fish.
The buccal orifice is at the outer extremity of the radius; but the intestinal terminations abut on the common cavity, which occupies the centre of the wheel.
She talked abut herself, and he knew that she did this not because of egoism, but because delicately she wished to give him a full opportunity for recovery.
You were telling your sister abutthe Greek divers who come to Portofino to find coral under the sea.
Coarse red sandstones with conglomeratic phase abutsharply and with moderate inclination against almost vertical sandstones and limestones of Carboniferous age.
It also brought about the partial filling by stream aggradation of the middle portion of the valley, causing the valley fill to abut sharply against the steep valley walls.
No angle is present as the ending ridge does not abut upon the curving ridge which envelopes it.
The two loops may be connected by an appending ridge provided that it does not abut at right angles between the shoulders of the loop formation.
The history of this marked departure from the norm is that the buildings of the Great Court were planned to abut upon the Chapel here, so as to block the lower half of the window, for which, accordingly, no glass was provided.
If the resistance to be exerted at a joint is always perpendicular to the surfaces which abut at and form that joint, there is no tendency of the pieces to be displaced by sliding.
The relative displacement of the two pieces which abut against each other at a joint may take place either by turning or by sliding.
Indians pointed to a village which was situated abut 2 miles from the river behid a pond lying parallel with it on the N.
The black and white duck are small abut the size of the blue-winged teal, or reather larger.
Towards the edge, where the gravel would abut against the marl, it is cut off by a trough filled with brick-earth 36 feet thick, with a few seams of small angular flints.
Or if the knife be moved with its back foremost, the current will be from N to P in every possible position and direction, provided the intersected curves abuton the same surfaces as before.
