vicarage

Example Sentences

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Her murders are committed in midcentury vicarages and hamlets with names like Chipping Cleghorn and Nether Mickford.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021

“Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

But, ordinarily, the term dignity is applied to bishoprics, deaneries, archdeaconries, and prebendaryships; benefice to parsonages, vicarages, and donatives.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

They had been “robbed” of their tithes, and turned out of their palaces, rectories and vicarages, and excluded from the churches they still called “theirs.”

From Andrew Marvell by Morley, John

From the very beginning, and in express terms,5185 Napoleon has reserved all curacies and vicarages for "ecclesiastics pensioned by virtue of the laws of the Constituent Assembly."

From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Durand, John