Neighbourhood

Examples

• But, mamma, you have been in this neighbourhood before. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Different benevolent-minded ladies and gentlemen in this neighbourhood and in London. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• First, This equality can take place only in those employments which are well known, and have been long established in the neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No nurse fit to wait on her being at hand in the neighbourhood, her ladyship the Countess and myself undertook the duty, relieving each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The neighbourhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest. Jane Austen. Emma.
• So, as I told you, the son found our neighbourhood the surest place he could choose to set things right secretly in his own interests. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It proved to be a well-known and respected widow of the neighbourhood, of a standing which can only be expressed by the word genteel. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Into _one_ house in this neighbourhood they shall never have admittance. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Have you lately come to settle in this neighbourhood, or do you own to another neighbourhood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Numerous offences had been committed in the neighbourhood; the perpetrators remained undiscovered, and their boldness increased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Had they a large neighbourhood? Jane Austen. Emma.

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