vicinage
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Their achievements are necessarily confined to the vicinage of cities or manufacturing villages.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace
It is communicated from one person to another by vicinage or by contact.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
First impressions—A hero of the "Three Days"—Children's ball—Life in New-Orleans—A French supper—Omnibuses—Chartres-street at twilight—Calaboose—Guard-house—The vicinage of a theatre—French cafés—Scenes in the interior of a café—Dominos—Tobacco-smokers—New-Orleans society.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt
As he has a constitutional right to be tried in the vicinage of the alleged offense, so has the commonwealth a right to insist on his trial there.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
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
