The night is still and calm, and naught is heard save my nearer neighbors' scratching, scratching, scratching.

So that the Brownbies were in truth much nearer neighbors to the German than was Heathcote and his family.

With their nearer neighbors in Savannah, they were also upon cordial terms, though they found few who cared for religious things.

"I had mistaken thee for one of our nearer neighbors, the Mohegan Pequods."