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1739 D. Bellamy Fair Counsellor in Misc. II. 60 There's a next Door Neighbour of ours, one Sir Toby Testy.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. xii. 85 Persons who live two or three Miles Distance in the Country are considered as next Door Neighbours . View more context for this quotation

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams II. xiii. 236 Our next-door neighbour at my father's house had been a carpenter.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vii. 145 A perpetual blister;—alias, a sociable next-door-neighbour.

1826 Lancet 22 Apr. 110/2 Their next door neighbours were the hard ill-looking tubercles.

1838 J. W. Semple tr. I. Kant Relig. within Boundary Pure Reason p. ix The religious or quasi-religious opinions entertained by our next-door neighbours on the Continent.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea vii. 72 Suppose Mrs. Keith's next door neighbours, the Sprotts, were to take them.

1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde i. 27 To Mahaffy the Greeks might be our modern nextdoor neighbours.

2000 Punch (Nassau, Bahamas) 11 Dec. 18/1 A next-door neighbour complained to cops about the sound of an electric guitar and drums blaring from his church during service.

1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol III. ii. xix. 154 The arrangements of next-door-neighbourdom were of so casual a kind.

1992 Boston Globe (Nexis) 8 Apr. 31 Judson D. Hale Sr. bring some freshness to that oldest of New England chestnuts: the Gallant and Goofus of next-door-neighbordom, Vermont vs. New Hampshire.