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 Warren, Samuel

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

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.

A higher mark of distinction she could not show—she who in general scorned visiting and tea-drinking, and held cheap and stigmatized as "gossips" every maid and matron of the vicinage.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

This vicinage has been the delight of artists from the time of Gainsborough, and is still a favorite sketching ground: here lived Collins and Blake, and Constable dwelt not far away.

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