Neighbouring

Examples

• Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighbouring yeomen, the listener said, Ah, Clym Yeobright--what is he doing now? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It makes him so much higher in his neighbouring collier's eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Israel wars with Judah and the neighbouring states; forms alliances first with one and then with the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He then took himself to a neighbouring hospice and gave himself up to scourgings and austerities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miles long, and of breadth losing itself in vagueness, for all the neighbouring country crowds to see. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He rose, and I followed him through the rain to a neighbouring church-yard --he threw himself on the wet earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If he is not Tom Gradgrind's colleague before long, I believe we shall at least hear of him in connexion with one of our neighbouring towns. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• We met with no Indians, but we found the places on the neighbouring hills where they had lain to watch our proceedings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When you get to the top, there's a view of the neighbouring premises, not to be surpassed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The neighbouring streets being narrow and ill-paved, it is a little inconvenient to walk there two abreast and arm in arm. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Don't any of the neighbouring children--? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, in order to profit by the produce of the water, they must have a habitation upon the neighbouring land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Around the exterior wall was a deep moat, supplied with water from a neighbouring rivulet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He had picked up the captain at a neighbouring race-course. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Several of the girls, the majority, indeed, had brothers or cousins at the neighbouring college. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The wealth of neighbouring nations, however, though dangerous in war and politics, is certainly advantageous in trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A deep fosse, or ditch, was drawn round the whole building, and filled with water from a neighbouring stream. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Since then, 125,000 oil wells have been drilled in that and neighbouring localities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Our little town of Windsor, in which the survivors from the neighbouring counties were chiefly assembled, wore a melancholy aspect. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sir Pitt went about tippling at his tenants' houses; and drank rum-and-water with the farmers at Mudbury and the neighbouring places on market-days. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is likely to fall, if ever the neighbouring lands are completely inclosed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He ordered every horse and mule in Persia to be shorn, and pulled down the battlements of the neighbouring cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A large grey cat leaped from some neighbouring shelf on his shoulder and startled us all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Lady Southdown, from her neighbouring house, reigned over the whole family--Pitt, Lady Jane, Miss Crawley, Briggs, Bowls, Firkin, and all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She cannot endure their restraint and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His wife represented to him how absolutely necessary such an attention would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to Netherfield. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• At last she kissed her hand to some one in a neighbouring box. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The servants were gone to a neighbouring fair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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