Yesterday I was studying the beginning of John Ball's novel, In the Heat of the Night.
The word "against" appears in three consecutive sentences.
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A few unshaded street lamps in the main business area pushed hard shadows against the closed stores, the surviving movie theater, and the silent gas stations.
At the corner where the through highway crossed at right angles, the automatic air-conditioner in the Simon Pharmacy was on, its steady throb purring against the silence of the night.
Across the street the one patrol car that the Wells police department kept out all night was pulled up against the curb.
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I think the author did this purposely, setting up tension in his description.
Against, against, against. The seemingly quiet small town has interior pressures....
---------------- The novel had a movie based on it (1967) and a TV series, also, which ran from 1988-1995.
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