vicinage

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It is communicated from one person to another by vicinage or by contact.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

Some of the aquatic fowl of the vicinage are referred to in Longfellow's "Herons of Elmwood."

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

There are also in this vicinage numbers of small filthy one-storeyed huts or ranchos built of cane, which seem as though hanging to the acclivities, and are not intended to last any time.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

For many miles around, the vicinage presents a volcanic aspect, wild, barren, howlingly dreary.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

And made its hated rival Lowville, two miles to its north, the county seat and chief village of the vicinage.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward