vicinage

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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

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.

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

They halted in the forest of Gaiac, near Avignonet, where food was brought them, and they were joined by about thirty armed men of the vicinage, who waited with them till after nightfall.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

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.