"Neighbourly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I call being really neighbourly!" declared Mrs. Hilyard. "I'd love the cup of tea. But I can't put you to the trouble of driving me back afterwards. There must be a limit to Good ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... monstrous news," he said weightily. "It is well you should know, for we may need your neighbourly help again. John Ozanne's ship was sunk by the French, privateer, Main Rouge, and John Ozanne himself and such of his men as tried to save themselves were shot in the water as they swam for their lives, and that was cold-blooded ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... Miss Godfrey's affair, and presenting to me the pretty Miss Goodwin, at the dairy-house. Our appearance at church; the favour of the gentry in the neighbourhood, who, knowing your ladyship had not disdained to look upon me, and to be favourable to me, came the more readily into a neighbourly intimacy with me, and still so much the more readily, as the continued kindness of my dear benefactor, and his condescending deportment to me before them (as if I had been worthy of the honour done me), did credit to his ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... Messieurs," said Hippolyte dramatically to his departing visitors. "It must not be said that Hippolyte Lariviere lacks in neighbourly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 18th, 1920 • Various
... but when an hour had slipped by and still they came, always strange, always different, a sense of littleness and loneliness seized her, that amounted almost to panic. She longed to get away from this great myriad-footed monster of a city, back to something small and familiar and quiet; to neighbourly greetings and friendly faces. The loneliness caused by the strange crowds depressed her. It was ...
— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston
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