"Neighbourly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very neighbourly and kind in your mother, and I'll come, with many thanks. Stay, Mary, has your mother got any nettles for spring drink? If she hasn't, ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... There were thunderbolts in the clouds and thunderbolts on earth. Those on earth meant war and invasion. He warned those who threatened the Fatherland, that there were a million of swords ready to spring forth from a million of scabbards. It was well enough to be neighbourly when those who lived in your vicinity were benevolently inclined. But when they showed a disposition to be offensive, then it was necessary to sharpen your swords and keep your power dry. They had already conquered France, and were not afraid of Russia. Besides, the Army contained ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892 • Various
... seat of intelligence; the foot or the finger cries out when it suffers, and the whole body suffers with it. So, in a small community, every one, rich and poor, is more or less cognizant of the sufferings of the community. In a large town, where people have ceased to be neighbourly, there is only a congested mass of population settled down on a certain small area without any human ties connecting them together. Here, it is perfectly possible, and it frequently happens, that men actually die of starvation ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... I'll neither trust to provost nor bailier" said the postmistress,"but I wad aye be obliging and neighbourly, and I'm no again your looking at the outside of a letter neitherSee, the seal has an anchor on'the's done't wi' ane ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... Antoine Sebastian," replied the verger, indicating with a nod of his head the house on the left-hand side of the Frauengasse where Sebastian lived. There was a wealth of meaning in the nod. For Peter Koch lived round the corner in the Kleine Schmiedegasse, and of course—well, it is only neighbourly to take an interest in those who drink milk from the same cow and buy wood from the ...
— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman
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