| Her combination of high seriousness, insight, and muddle-headedness establishes, in the earlier parts of the novel, the contiguity of inspiration and comedy. |
| Their geographical contiguity must have come to be regarded as a zone of political proximity if not a frontier or border of some kind. |
| The theological views held by the Lutheran Church to the contrary, the tombs assert the contiguity of the community of the living with the dead. |
| The first definition is of a truncated mini-state without territorial contiguity. |
| For the twins they are sometimes supposed to be, Ishmael and Ahab have only very rare moments of contiguity or overlapping. |
| The claims of contiguity, and geography more generally, would continue to make themselves felt. |
