Her right-hand neighbour was Sir Jasper Paulet, who had been allotted to the pompous wife of a court physician, a lady who had begun her married life in the outer darkness of Guildford Street, Bloomsbury, with a household consisting of a maid-of-all-work and a boy in buttons, with an occasional interregnum of charwoman; and for whom all the length and breadth of Harley Street was now much too small.

One day, to his horror, Boxtel discovered that his next-door neighbour, the wealthy Mynheer van Baerle, was also a tulip-grower.

The Little Giant's Neighbours.= A charming nature story of a "little giant" whose neighbours were the creatures of the field and garden.

It's an outrage to insinuate, as you do, that these kind neighbours are common thieves.

His neighbour is an honest simpleton, who, stopping in admiration before the doorway of Notre Dame in Paris in order to admire the statues of Pepin, Charlemagne, and their successors, has his pocket picked of his purse.

'Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter' (Sir R. Chambers), ii. 268, n. 2. DISTANCE.

Our next-door neighbour at my father's house had been a carpenter.

On the N. it is washed by the Bristol Channel; on the N.E. the Avon, like a silver streak, divides it from Gloucestershire; it is bordered on the E. by Wiltshire; its S.E. neighbour is Dorset; and on the S.W. it touches Devon.

Our neighbours were very pleasant people, kindly and simple.

'Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter' (Sir R. Chambers), ii. 268, n. 2. DISTANCE.

The Serbs, who had no permanent or well-defined frontier in the east, where their neighbours were the Bulgars, or in the south, where they were the Greeks and Albanians, were protected on the north by the river Save and on the west by the Adriatic.

this scowling neighbour of mine is GérardinGérardin of the Commune!

They will recall how I said before my house, that my neighbour could not have been doubly a mother, unless she had first been doubly a wife.

Neighbour, now be bold: [Exeunt Watermen.

Neighbours, at the best, are an impertinent encroachment on one's privacy, and, at the worst, an unnatural hindrance to our development.

To the south there was nothing for miles but farms and hamlets, while the only near neighbour in the east was a hunting squire, who thought Father Payne kept a sort of boarding-house, and ignored him entirely.

The hardy old pioneer has realized a very comfortable independence, and he told me his only neighbours were a band of his countrymen at the back of the hill, who speak Gaelic exclusively and scarce know a word of English.

But our next door neighbours were maiden ladies, who had been younger, and, to use a common term of commiseration, had seen better daysby which, I mean the days of bloom, natural hair, partners, and the probability of husbands.

"If it was here where all the neighbours 'ud be lookin' at it, it 'ud be somethin'-like.

Bruce's neighbour at dinner was the delicate, battered-looking actress, in a Royal fringe and a tight bodice with short sleeves, who had once been a celebrity, though no-one remembered for what.

My neighbours, the Kandolkars, are a peasant family and during the rains they take to farming their own fields.

Our next-door neighbour was a beautiful Greek girl, a veritable Helen, for the sake of whose beauty one might give up all things.

The most important neighbour of the Empire in this quarter was the Bulgarian kingdom, which covered all the Balkan hinterland from the Danube and the Black Sea to the barrier-fortresses of Adrianople and Salonika.