Neighboring

Examples

• The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Even at this day the ignorant denizens of the neighboring country prefer not to sleep in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was spoken as Legree was getting on his horse, to go to the neighboring town. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The energy finally given becomes too slight to affect neighboring balls, and the system comes to rest. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Why should the plants and animals of the islands resemble those of the mainland, or the inhabitants of one island differ from those of a neighboring i sland? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This exhibited merely the prevailing price of gold; but as its quotations changed from instant to instant, it was in a most literal sense the cynosure of neighboring eyes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He told Master Hans about this, and the optician fixed two lenses in a tube, and looking at the weathercock on a neighboring steeple saw that it seemed much nearer and to be upside down. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighboring streets; but he was gone. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Then the different makes of reapers would show how many acres of grain they could cut in an afternoon before an audience of the neighboring farmers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The South, prior to the rebellion, kept bloodhounds to pursue runaway slaves who took refuge in the neighboring swamps, and also to hunt convicts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Placing themselves under cover from the shots of the enemy, the men would watch to detect a head above the sand-bags on the neighboring houses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Early and some of his officers escaped by finding refuge in the neighboring houses or in the woods. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was accustomed to visit with his students the factories of that place as well as those of neighboring French and Belgian cities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This they lick with their tongues, which makes their mouths sore, and they not only shun this locality, but appear to tell all the neighboring rats about it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighboring clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It being market morning at a neighboring town some ten miles off, Mr. Pumblechook was not at home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Thousands of gallons of water were brought in tanks from neighboring cities, and were emptied into the empty reservoir from whence it trickled slowly through the city mains. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was now near evening, Legree had been absent, on a ride to a neighboring farm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The she lls in the stratum were recent, that is, corresponded to those still to be found on the neighboring coast. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Edited by Bradley