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Updated: June 23, 2025
For the wonder of Ireland is, that it is the West Pole of things; there is no place else nearer the Unseen; its next-door neighbor-land westward is this Great Plain, whither sail the Happy Dead in their night-dark coracles, to return, of course, in due season; and all the peoplings of Ireland were from this Great Plain.
M. Gustave Flourens, who is the hero of these men of war, and who, although exercising no official rank in the battalion, insisted upon their accepting him as their chief, is to be brought before a Council of War. My next-door neighbour, Franchetti, died yesterday, and was buried to-day.
Desires-awake's cottage was so mean and meagre that no one ever came to visit him unless it was his next-door neighbour. They never left their cottages, those two poor men, unless it was to see one another; or, strange to tell, unless it was to go out at the city gate to see and to speak with their Prince. And at such times their venturesomeness both astonished themselves and amused their Prince.
It would have been easy for parent or teacher to engender in them some appreciation of space by explaining to them that if they were to travel thirty miles a day it would require twenty-two years to reach the moon, which is, in reality, our next-door neighbor, and that to reach the sun, at the same rate of travel, would require more than eight thousand years, or the added lifetimes of almost three hundred generations.
He was a good master, paid his servants their wages with unfailing punctuality, and gave very little trouble. But he was the last person in the world upon whom a garrulous woman could venture to inflict her rambling discourse; as Nancy Woolper by courtesy, Mrs. Woolper was fain to confess to her next-door neighbour, Mrs. Magson, when her master was the subject of an afternoon gossip.
Douglas Jerrold, in his well-known "Punch's Letters to his Son," gives an anecdote of which we can only say, si non è vero, è ben trovato. It at all events illustrates the frightful morality that exists with regard to borrowing Umbrellas. "Hopkins once lent Simpson, his next-door neighbour, an Umbrella.
Nothing more serious can happen than the failure of the butcher's and the grocer's carts, unless, indeed, the little news-carrier should fail to board us with the world's daily bulletin, or our next-door neighbor should be deterred from coming to sit by the blazing, excited fire, and interchange the trifling, harmless gossip of the day.
And while they worked, Miss Ruth told the story of "She belonged to our next-door neighbor, and we called her the Widow because her mate a fine plucky little bantam rooster was one day slain while doing battle with the great red chanticleer who ruled the hen-yard. "I took pity on the little hen in her loneliness, and singled her out from the flock for special attention.
He knows them and he says they're charming people." "Well, they may be, but I don't want to meet her. Don't walk over that way." "Yes, I shall. Mr. Rose seems to be coming this way, and I shall do the neighbourly thing and have a chat with him." "Why, Father, you don't know him." "That doesn't matter between next-door neighbours, at least between the men of the houses.
Morris, as she stepped in to have an hour's social chat with her old friend, Mrs. Freeman. "Very little," was the reply. "Occasionally I have seen the lady walking in her garden, and have sometimes watched the sports of the children on the side-walk, but this is all. It is not like the country, you know. One may live here for years, and not become acquainted with the next-door neighbours."
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