We advanced swiftly along the ridges, but these finally abutted against the mountain, and we were compelled to cross from ridge to ridge.
From the point on which we planted our first flagstaff a hacked and extremely acute ridge ran, and abutted against the final precipice.
South of the clump of trees it abutted another wall of different construction which ran continuously in the same direction for 28 feet.
The latter abutted it in line with an interior foundation wall which bisected the structure into two room areas, designated X and Y.
As described above, this cross wall was found to be tied into the brick pavement that abutted it on the south side.
Then we turned our horses, and I shaped our course so as to strike the top of the long lane that abutted on the down.
The outbuilding we were lodged in abutted on a road, and was outside the proper enceinte of the house.
A number of sandy ridges, similar to that on which we stood, abutted upon, and terminated in this plain like so many head lands projecting into the sea.
As to the eastward, so here the ridges we had just crossed abutted upon it, and as many of them were lower than the line of the horizon, they looked like sea dunes, backed by storm clouds, from the dusky colour of the plain.
Nevertheless, the houses in Guildford Place were near; and their back premises abutted against the outer side of the wall along which he was now proceeding.
I walked round the corner, saw that the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I had solved my problem.
It was difficult to realize, as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises, that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quitted.
The press abutted against the row of piles nearest to the ship, which were connected by wooden struts to the piles behind them.
Modern plans seem sometimes to imply that the 'insulae' which abutted on the walls were also abnormally large.
The rock surface was coated in places with a thin wash of clay, doubtless to correspond with the other walls of the rooms, but this coating was necessarily omitted where the partition walls and roofs and floors abutted on the rock.
It shows bare rock at the points where the floors abutted against it.
Back of the rooms west of the tower there are some old pictographs on the cliff wall at the place where the roof abutted on it.
And it had no frontier which abutted upon friendly country nearer than the Caucasus, an almost hopeless journey to attempt.
At the end of the square, where it abutted upon the street, there was an arched gateway, something like a Roman triumphal arch, and in the room above it there resided an arch-villain.
One actually abutted on it, although there was no communication whatever, as far as I could discover, between the interior of the two buildings; the other was about 100 feet to the east.
The bluffs, which had for many miles closely abutted the stream, at last gradually swept away to the north and south, to become part of the great wall which forms the eastern bulwark of the Upper Mississippi.
Seeking a willow island which abutted on the channel, we made a tent of the sail and stood the brief storm quite comfortably.
We finally examined a grand old moraine produced by a Mer de Glace of other ages, when the ice quite crossed the valley of Chamouni and abutted against the opposite mountain-wall.
The end of a ridge of iceabutted against it, which was split and bent by the pressure so as to form a kind of arch.
At present there is a considerable space between the ends of the wall and the palace mound; but anciently it is provable that they either abutted on the mound, or were separated from it merely by gateways.
It is loftier, and its sides are more precipitous, than Koyunjik, especially on the west, where it abutted upon the wall of the city.
The other two sides, one of which abutted on and was concealed by the palace mound, while the other faced towards the city, were perfectly plain.
Sometimes the courts were surrounded with buildings; sometimes they abutted upon the edge of the platform: in this latter case they were protected by a stone parapet, which (at least in places) was six feet high.
When those who resisted him were slain or driven off, he directed his troops to seize the royal palace, which abutted on the southern wall, and through it make their entrance into the town.
The most remarkable of the Tyrian buildings were the royal palace, which abutted on the southern wall of the town, and the temples dedicated to Baal, Melkarth, Agenor, and Astarte or Ashtoreth.
Haward walked on to the grape arbor, and found there a black girl, who pointed to an open door, pertaining not to the small white house, but to that portion of the theatre which abutted upon the garden.
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.
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.
In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land.
As she spoke, Dorothy jumped lightly on to the seat of the cosy corner that abutted on the fireplace, and reached upwards to drop her whistle inside the ornament.
Ulyth, and began swarming up the bole of a huge old oak-tree that abutted on the wall.
In order to shew how the building was arranged when it was first built, before other structures abutted against it, I have prepared a second plan (fig.
The rooms for the Librarian and his assistants were in a small building which abutted on the Library at its S.
It abutted against the south-east angle of the south transept, from which it could be entered.
Lord Grimthorpe cut four windows in the western bays of the aisle, in which no windows had originally existed, as domestic buildings abuttedagainst the church here.
The figure moved rapidly along the west wall of the Inn almost the entire length of the building, until it arrived at the entrance of the bowling-alley which abutted from the old northern wing.
He opened a window on to the roof of the gallery, climbed out, and crawled along on his belly till his head just abutted over the eaves.
Varbarriere knew that the butler's room exactly underlay that dingy library that abutted on Sir Jekyl's bedchamber, and on that account had placed his sentinel to watch there.
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