vicinage

Example Sentences

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Defendant now contends that he is entitled to common, pour cause de vicinage.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

This vicinage has been the delight of artists from the time of Gainsborough, and is still a favorite sketching ground: here lived Collins and Blake, and Constable dwelt not far away.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

A higher mark of distinction she could not show—she who in general scorned visiting and tea-drinking, and held cheap and stigmatized as "gossips" every maid and matron of the vicinage.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

Nor is vicinage necessary there, to distinguish the several customs of particular places, the whole country being as one neighborhood, and having the same tenures of land, usages and customs.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

The latter must be tried in "the vicinage" where the offense is alleged to have been committed, because there the witnesses are to be found.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.