vicinage
Example Sentences
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Defendant now contends that he is entitled to common, pour cause de vicinage.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
Exercise, the fresh air, the thought of seeing Robert, at least of being on his premises, in his vicinage, revived her somewhat depressed spirits quickly.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
A bright matron of the vicinage, who, when a child, thought the author of the "Wonder-Book" the "greatest man in the world save only Franklin Pierce," lived then by Hawthorne's road to Laurel Lake.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
For many miles around, the vicinage presents a volcanic aspect, wild, barren, howlingly dreary.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
There are also in this vicinage numbers of small filthy one-storeyed huts or ranchos built of cane, which seem as though hanging to the acclivities, and are not intended to last any time.
