I remember distinctly how puzzled was by the stories I heard. The neighbourhood portrait--and ours is really a friendly neighbourhood--was by no means flattering. Old Toombs was apparently of that type of hard-shelled, grasping, self-reliant, old-fashioned farmer not unfamiliar to many country neighbourhoods. He had come of tough old American stock and he was a worker, a saver, and thus he had grown rich, the richest farmer in the whole neighbourhood. He was a regular individualistic American.英文原著 · 《The Friendly Road》
That evening at supper Mr. Wheeler gave his wife a full account of the court hearing, so that she could write it to Claude. Wheeler, always more a school-teacher than a housekeeper, wrote a rapid, easy hand, and her long letters to Claude reported all the neighbourhood doings. Wheeler furnished much of the material for them. Like many long-married men he had fallen into the way of withholding neighbourhood news from his wife. But since Claude went away he reported to her everything in which he thought the boy would be interested. As she laconically said in one of her letters:英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
301 he spells the name "Binkapore." Bankapur was one of the principal fortresses in the Carnatic. It is the "Bengapor" or "Vengapor" of our chronicles. (See below, p. 122.)
[97] -- This again points to the Muhammadan camp having been in the neighbourhood of Hospett, south of Vijayanagar. [98] -- "Plates of gold filled with incense and silver flowers." -- Briggs (ii. [99] -- This square is the open space mentioned by both Nuniz and Paes. On the left of it, as the cortege advanced, was the palace. [100] -- Scott has it "Mankul" (i.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Then his face changed; the mask of noble calmness, for a moment fallen, resumed itself, and he bowed before her with the reverence of a courtly gentleman, undisturbed by the unexpectedness of his recognition of her neighbourhood.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
When he was first bought and brought home, Mistress Anne turned ashy at the sight of him, and in her heart of hearts grieved bitterly that it had so fallen out that his Grace of Osmonde had been called away from town by high and important matters; for she knew full well, that if he had been in the neighbourhood, he would have said some discreet and tender word of warning to which her ladyship would have listened, though she would have treated with disdain the caution of any other man or woman. When she herself ventured to speak, Clorinda looked only stern.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
The wind sang and split the sky like thunder all the night through; in scraps of sleep it filled my dreams with the divine discordances of martyrdom and revolt; I heard the horn of Roland and the drums of Napoleon and all the tongues Of terror with which the Thing has gone forth: the spirit of our race alive. But when I came down in the morning only a branch or two was broken off the tree in my garden; and none of the great country houses in the neighbourhood were blown down, as would have happened if the Thing had really been abroad.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Someone answering his description has been seen in this neighbourhood.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I was concerned about safety in our neighbourhood and I was not getting any satisfaction from city hall.美剧 · 《Modern Family》