The neighbours implored him to give up his evil ways, for he was a wicked fellow, and took delight in mocking at religion, and always, above every other, chose a Sunday or fete day for his hunting excursions.
When theneighbours ran to assist, they saw a gigantic demon fly out of the smoking flaming ruins, holding the rich peasant by the neck, and dragging him, body and soul, to perdition.
His servant reluctantly obeyed his commands, and his neighbours kind-heartedly warned him that it was a crime to make hay on the day of the Saint who was so universally revered.
Indeed, I suspect that this visitor is Lady Noble herself, and that the Fairchilds themselves are neighbours of this family.
There was a Lady Aimwell, wife to Sir George; but this lady was a piece of still life, of whom the neighbours knew nothing, and for whom her husband cared nothing.
Their only fear was lest the Spaniards, worse neighbours than even the Caribs, should follow them thither.
I always passed for his eldest son, my name being told to the neighbours as Ralph Rattlin Brandon.
He was told by the neighbours that, a year back, they had all emigrated to Canada.
But as groups of federated democracies they are the best neighbours in the world.
This the girls thought very fine, and the neighbours joked about the suspicious colour of the pitcher.
On seasonable Sunday afternoons the burghers of Cordelia Street usually sat out on their front "stoops," and talked to their neighbours on the next stoop, or called to those across the street in neighbourly fashion.
Could you go round to your old neighboursand crack up our goods, and book their orders and that sort of thing?
Such were the new next-door neighbours of the Crudens when at last they arrived, sadly, and with the new world before them, at Number 6, Dull Street.
They would be pleased to see their poor neighbours helped on in the world, as you or I would, you know.
My neighbours will tell you hereabouts that Anne Valery is the universal confidante, and the greatest marriage-maker (not match-maker) in all Dorset.
That would not keep me from feeling thoroughly out of place and having hardly an idea in common with my neighbours in their plush-trimmed gowns and fur-lined mantles.
He had, it is true, a knack of scraping and continuing acquaintance with neighbours and fellow residents entirely out of his own station.
III If ever a man carried out in practice the precept: “To know yourself is wisdom; not to know your neighbours is genius,” that man was Edward Whymper.
The ways in which men and women can help their neighbours are innumerable.
The neighbours said it was all through killing the robin.
It would be difficult to mention any other man who, having himself so little scruple about breaking faith, was so slow to believe that his neighbours could break faith with him.
Indeed he would have been as ready as any of his Protestant neighbours to gird on his sword, and to put pistols in his holsters, for the defence of his native land against an invasion of French or Irish Papists.
Never offer to "assist" your neighbours to this or that dish.
May the faults of our neighbours be dim and their virtues glaring.
There are some persons who think to overpower their neighbours by the splendour of their attire.
You will remove that notice from the door as soon as our neighbours have started for evening church--or chapel.
The laughter of his neighbours somewhat jarred his sensitive spirit.
Only two of the more intelligent neighbours stopped in the cottage and inspected the Duke’s household goods.
Insall and her Silliston neighbours were wont, indeed, gently to rally her on her enthusiasms, while understanding and sympathizing with this need in her.
Guillaume Morin, who was apparently making the best of his last chance of a good meal before Lent, had gone to feast with some neighbours on Shrove Tuesday, and when they had finished the beef, he threw the bone out of the window.
As none of these can be reached without transhipment in foreign territory, the cost of transport is increased, and her neighbours are enabled to exclude Bolivia from direct commercial intercourse with other nations.
The possession of a seaboard enabled them to maintain fleets and build relatively large towns such as Stettin and Kolberg, whilst they ravaged at will the territories of their southern neighbours the Poles.
It is quite a subject of interest with our neighbours to find themselves fellow-passengers with the young ladies, in their black skirts and their more dressy style of bodice concealed beneath tweed capes.
There is a distinct air of mystery over any and every one of the smallest affairs of daily life in the little place, and I hardly think that our neighbours would really enjoy anything if it were "spoken about" before the proper time.
Our neighbours never refuse invitations to even the smallest party; but the pleasure that they get from them, if it exists at all, is carefully concealed.
Poor though some of these neighbours are, a very kindly charity prevails in the little town.
A good many of us come to Scotland most years, and have seen gillies and pipers before, but our good-natured neighbours certainly out-distance any one I know in their Highland sympathies.
The neighbours talked again nervously, cheerfully, in subdued tones, of the weather, the sales, and what the men of their households were saying about things in general.
The State of Dessau in Germany, threatens its neighbours with fifteen hundred soldiers, while Reuss guards its dignity and independence with three hundred infantry and fifty horse.
Clovis, who envied his neighbours their territories south of the Loire, led an expedition against them, crying, "It is shameful to see those Arians in possession of such goodly lands!
They had no alleviation of burdens in consequence of their wealth, but they took care that their poorer neighboursshould have alleviation in consequence of their poverty.
These Mengwe now began to look upon their southern neighbours with a jealous eye, became afraid of their growing power, and of being dispossessed by them of the lands they occupied.
One of the ties which bound him down to the gentle humanities of earth was loosened, and henceforward the neighbours all remarked he was a changed man.
The whole of the live-long day, When all the neighbours about one Are off to their jaunts and play.
As they walked homewards with a brisker pace, Wilson expressed a wish that they still were the near neighbours they once had been.
If he dares to come here while father's away, I'll call the neighbours in to turn him out, so don't be putting him up to that.
The night before the morning on which the Manchester delegates were to leave for London, Barton might be said to hold a levee, so many neighbours came dropping in.
But the next day I asked all the neighbours (both our own and Bradshaw's) and they'd none of 'em heard or seen nothing of her.
He continued to receive frequent visits, in the first place from his neighbours and brethren at Lindisfarne, and in addition from all who came to consult him upon the state of their souls, as well as to seek consolation from him in adversity.
When the neighbours lifted the poor little body from the board on which it had lain, lo!
For six years she lay on one side upon a hard board, and would not suffer her mother or the neighbours to make her a soft bed, desiring rather to be like our Blessed Lord, stretched on His Cross.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighbours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
