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)

The "revenuers," he argued, too, never rode alone, as did this man, and spies and informers were generally of the vicinage.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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

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

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

This government of every vicinage in its home affairs by itself, as originated in New England, and is now spread far and wide throughout the northern States, is the most beneficent achievement of American democracy.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin