vicinage

Example Sentences

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I might, of course, have waited for October to send Susan to a select private school in the vicinage, patronized by the little daughters of our more cautious families.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

Some of the aquatic fowl of the vicinage are referred to in Longfellow's "Herons of Elmwood."

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

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.

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.

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