36 Metaphors for neighbor

Keep off your filching hands, lads, and elsewhere ply your theft: Our neighbor is a miser, his Scare-Crow gets no gifts, His apples are not guardedthe path is on your left.

Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing.

The silence came from the suspicion that one's next neighbor might be a spy planted there to catch him in some unwary statement.

A good neighbor is John Stubbins, and the only man just in our neighborhood who can read the newspaper.

My right-hand neighbor was Mr. Davey, an urbane and unreserved American, who informed me in a breath that he was a dentist, a graduate of Harvard University, seventy-two years old, and had been in Tahiti forty-two years.

All the neighbors were a long ways off and by the time they reched the house it had fallen in.

"Our neighbors are all fishermen, and we are friends.

One never knows whether one's neighbor is an ornament to the Almanac de Gotha, or a disgrace to a degenerate colony of refugees.

At the end of the act I noticed that my neighbor on the left was a young girl.

Our neighbors on the south, were a company of Irish people, who owned the township, and on the west side were a township of Welshmen, a hardy, industrious and enterprising people.

These Dalriadan Irish were Christian at least in name, but their neighbors in the Pictish Highlands were still pagans.

Its nearest neighbor was a tiny tree, so small it was scarcely ever noticed; yet it was a very beautiful little tree, and the Vines and Ferns and Mosses loved it very dearly.

[Illustration: "JACK ATE TILL HIS PAUNCH LOOKED LIKE A RUBBER BALLOON"] Lan's nearest neighbor was Lou Bonamy, an ex-cowboy and sheep-herder, now a prospecting miner.

His neighbor, old, Mr. Holt, is a lodger in the same house with us at L; and as I thought you would like to hear, I made particular inquiries about the baronet."

The immediate neighbors of the Tzendals were the Mixes and Zoques, the former resident in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the latter rather in the lowlands and toward the eastern coast.

His next-door neighbor is an iron workshop, and is forging an armor of proof for a vessel of war, from which the mightiest balls shall bound as lightly as the arrows from an old-time breastplate.

His neighbor was Corporal Armstrong, of the same Company.

My only neighbors are de remittance men, who iss more mischiefing as wicked.

That neighbor was young Mr. ShawRandolph Shaw, heir to the Randolph fortune.

This neighbor of mine, who tore the boy away from his poor mother, and thus broke her heart, was a member of the Presbyterian church.

Zara's neighbor was a great, big, fierce-looking creature from some wild quarter of the South, and was perhaps also just a little drunk.

All my French friends are there, all my neighbors, and any number of English friends will soon be, among them the brother of the sculptor you met at my house last winter and liked so much.

My nearest neighbors were a very agreeable, intelligent family of sons and daughters.

My neighbors are deep divers!

Besides, it was long before the roving and predatory instinct of the barbarian was moderated; and his weaker neighbor was the natural prey of the more powerful landholder, an example not unfrequently set by the king himself.

36 Metaphors for  neighbor