vicinage

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

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

The conception of a pomœrium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.

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

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.

We have talked with some in the vicinage who remembered seeing Smith and his family riding in this perennial chariot, drawn by a plough-horse which was harnessed with plough-lines and driven by a plough-boy.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

Nor is vicinage necessary there, to distinguish the several customs of particular places, the whole country being as one neighborhood, and having the same tenures of land, usages and customs.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert