vicinage

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From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt

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

Throughout the paper he confounds together what I had distinguished, namely, the city of Gadara and the vicinage attached to it, not as a mere pomœrium, but as a rural district.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

Once more the Cathedral vicinage was undefined by lay appropriation, but the Dean knew Mr. Swainson too well to rejoice.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.

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.