near-neighboring

Updated: April 30, 2025

There was another bear in Labrador a smallish, rusty-coated, broad-headed, crafty cousin of the ordinary American black bear. And one of these, who had acquired a taste for seal, along with some cleverness in gratifying that taste, had his headquarters, as it chanced, in that near-neighboring fir wood. The Pup lay crowded in snugly between his two mothers.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - Kings in Exile