| 1. | This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours, the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | They are antithetical to one another, these roads they directly abut on one another--and it is here, at this gateway, that they come together. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | 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. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |