vicinage
Example Sentences
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She was a general favorite, and her dark steed, which had cost her the proceeds of a volume of her poems, used to stop before every house in the vicinage.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
All my time was occupied in thinking how to fool the one and keep out of sight of the other till I could make escape from their immediate vicinage.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
So far from carefully withholding the children from the paternal vicinage, at the first symptoms of exclusiveness, put a paper of candy and a set of drums at his door to toll the children thither.
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
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)
It made him look handsomer, he was so composed; it made his vicinage pleasant, it was so peace-restoring.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
