vicinage

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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.

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

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)

Then I fastened myself upon the pictures, and those strange wreaths of withered leaves that waved between them, and whose searest hues befitted well their vicinage.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

In our ascent, p. 135delightful views were obtained of the upper vale of Towey, stretching from Llandilo bridge to the vicinage of Llandovery. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Their achievements are necessarily confined to the vicinage of cities or manufacturing villages.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace