vicinage
Example Sentences
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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.
Once more the Cathedral vicinage was undefiled by lay appropriation, but the Dean knew Mr. Swainson too well to rejoice.
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
Under color of the authority of that office, and sustained by an armed band of adherents, he exercised despotic sway over the town and its vicinage.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
For many miles around, the vicinage presents a volcanic aspect, wild, barren, howlingly dreary.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
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)
