vicinage

Example Sentences

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And made its hated rival Lowville, two miles to its north, the county seat and chief village of the vicinage.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

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.

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

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

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)