vicinage

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To separate them, Sir Robert quickly carried his family back to Nithsdale, but Douglas as quickly followed, and lurked in the vicinage for some months, clandestinely meeting his love among "Maxwelton's bonnie braes."

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

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

So far from carefully withholding the children from the paternal vicinage, at the first symptoms of exclusiveness, put a paper of candy and a set of drums at his door to toll the children thither.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail

We subsequently find that it is this sort of "Whitmania," rather than that Swinburne deplores, which pervades the vicinage of the poet's home.

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

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.