Such an officer wins golden opinions from the people, and his departure from the neighbourhood is usually signalised by the presentation of the much-coveted testimonial umbrella.
Large firms, which supply carts to travellers between given points, are also often in the habit of contracting with the brigands of the neighbourhood for the safe passage of their customers.
Truth to tell, the unexplained horror of that diabolical face was strong upon the cousins, and each was anxious to be gone from its neighbourhood at all risks.
The Zulus were to patrol the neighbourhood from dusk until moonrise, and give notice of any hostile approach, when the trains would be fired and the beacons lighted, to enable the besieged to shoot accurately.
It was Saturday afternoon, labour was passed for the week, and the street and neighbourhood presented an appearance most creditable to the operatives who are here congregated in a lovely neighbourhood.
He does not directly mention Horncastle, but shews acquaintance with the neighbourhood by celebrating the burial of King Ethelred at Bardney.
The family name of Thimelby still survives in the neighbourhood of Spilsby.
Parton, at five centres; and they also visited various farmyards in the neighbourhood to give practical advice; these lessons were well attended.
Earl and Countess Stanhope, and other distinguished persons on the platform, and a vast crowd from the neighbourhood filling the entire Market Place.
On coming to Horncastle he immediately made his mark in cricket as a round-hand bowler; and the leading young men of the neighbourhoodbecame his pupils.
All the gentlemen of the neighbourhood are unanimous in admiration of mademoiselle's beauty.
Through the desertion of most of the castles here in the neighbourhood by their legitimate proprietors, the entry to all of them is open to us; and now everything is taken out of them that is worth taking at all.
Fritz had barely dropped to sleep on the evening of the 17th, when, towards midnight, he was aroused by the wild music of military trumpets, blown apparently from every bivouac in his neighbourhood for miles round.
See now--I've been down in theneighbourhood to make sure.
They have a nice place, though damp, somewhere in the neighbourhood of your borough, and I dined there once or twice before I left Bubbleton.
The narrative suggests that the castle referred to was in the immediate neighbourhood of Cruggleton (p.
A nobleman lived in the neighbourhood of the monastery of Bangor, whose wife was sick nigh unto death.
Not only in the neighbourhood of the province of Yamato, in which the emperors of old time used to have their residence, but also in several distant provinces new miyake were organised.
He wants to carry it around and show it to his friends, just as a child wants to race through theneighbourhood and display his new toy.
Most of the pleasure seekers that we encountered in the neighbourhood of the Pyramids seemed to be quite elderly--some of the more sprightly as young as sixty, and from that going up to where it would be better to stop guessing.
The rest of the party found shelter, under guidance of the robbers, in some of the many caves with which the rocks in the neighbourhood were honeycombed.
Huldah, with the children, was wandering one day among the gardens in the neighbourhood of the city.
As they came in their rambling into the neighbourhood of the Temple, they found their way blocked by a dense crowd, which seemed eagerly pressing forward to see some spectacle of surpassing interest.
Twemlow desired fervently to do his duty, and moreover the estrangement from his son increased his satisfaction in dealing handsomely with his daughter; the son would doubtless learn from the daughter how much he had lost by his impiety.
Sleep, and her fundamental good-nature, had modified her mood, and for the moment she meant to play the rôle of dutiful daughter as well as she could.
She had played in that house as a child, and as a woman had watched, from its windows, the years go by like a procession.
No more carrying-on with Fred Ryley--or any one else.
It was after midnight as I drew near the neighbourhood of the house in which I had left Dumps so hurriedly that morning.
The British Cavalry Corps was posted in the neighbourhoodof St. Pol and Bailleul-les-Pernes, in readiness to co-operate with the French Cavalry in pushing home any success which might be attained by the combined offensive.
All over this neighbourhood you see the names of Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, Grenadiers, etc.
In the spring-time the whole neighbourhood is musical with the song of birds, and one is often thrilled by the rich haunting note of the cuckoo.
Very interesting to meet one of the "dim millions" from one's own neighbourhood in this fashion, n'est ce pas?
The wholeneighbourhood was agitated by the preparations for this solemnity.
There was no distinct authority for this, but the whole neighbourhood became gradually aware of it.
There are numerous very handsome houses in the town, mostly roofed with red-brick tiles, while the higher spots in the neighbourhood are chiefly occupied by the villas of the European merchants and other principal residents.
The town of Queensferry lies farther west, and the neighbourhood of the inn looked pretty lonely at that time of day, for the boat had just gone north with passengers.
He only begged me to procure him a disguise of a common sort, so that he might immediately embark from the neighbourhood of Gainville or Bordeaux, and make for England or Spain; every moment was precious.
He had just built, at great expense, in the neighbourhood of Melun, a castle of such superb and elegant proportions that the fame of it had even reached foreign parts.
One day I was returning from the neighbourhood of Etampes with only my son, his tutor, and my physician in the carriage.
The interest of my position had led me once to assure myself of the neighbourhood of the King by certain little measures, not of curiosity but of surveillance.
The aged Count had demonstrated that a petroleum motor could be used in the neighbourhood of gas without danger.
When he arrived in London the innocent-looking Quaker was arrested, much to his amazement and dismay, on the charge of having committed a foul murder in the neighbourhood of Slough.
Santos Dumont, a wealthy and plucky young Brazilian, had, previously to this offer, made several successful journeys in motor balloons in the neighbourhood of the Eiffel Tower.
During these three days we all remained very much in the neighbourhood of our camp.
We had left all our blankets in the wagon, and the air was fast becoming cold, which is always the case in the neighbourhood of snowy mountains.
As for herself, she was no favourite in the neighbourhood at any time.
The chandlers and the keepers of cook-shops knew their neighbourhood too well to leave articles unguarded.
Here were these pestilent outsiders, the Ropers, assailing the reputation of the neighbourhood by complaining of being robbed.
The neighbourhood of Regnier de Montigny and Colin de Cayeux was probably more influential on his after life than the contempt of Catherine.
In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig.
He finds that in Shadwell and the neighbourhood the young man's fancy turns more definitely to love in the dark evenings than in the spring.
They related to the Crawford property in the neighbourhood of the South London Canal.
Mrs. Grainger knows the history of the whole neighbourhood from the time of Adam.
In the darkness of night and the strangeness of a new house and the loneliness of this deserted neighbourhood it had seemed as though Crawford was insane--might, in fact at any moment develop into a dangerous maniac.
She almost invariably wore a smile on her expansive countenance, and was well known in the neighbourhood for her good nature and good temper.
I care to be known in this neighbourhood as little as possible.
It is quite certain that nobody came, and that Tom stood looking at the knocker; wondering whereabouts in the neighbourhood a certain gentleman resided, who was roaring out to somebody 'Come in!
A broker's man in a poor neighbourhood wouldn't be bad perhaps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighbourhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
