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Example sentences for "vicinage"

Lexicographically close words:
viceroyship; vices; vicesimo; vich; vicina; vicinal; vicini; vicinities; vicinity; vicino
  1. A more wretched-looking burlesque was never placed in the vicinage of art and the productions of genius.

  2. Its vicinage was never more desolate than the Campagna, or the state of Attica and the Morea in 1830.

  3. 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 pomoerium, but as a rural district.

  4. The conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.

  5. At Sandysike farm-house the foundation of the Wall as well as abundant traces of mural vicinage are to be seen.

  6. Beside, it is the vicinage of the most considerable gold-mines on all Borneo.

  7. Condamine, is principally occasioned by the different temperature of the air, varied as it is, from the extreme heat of the torrid zone, to the cold occasioned by the vicinage of snow.

  8. He likewise says, that the Greek women have the finest hair in the world, especially in the vicinage of Constantinople; but that those whose hair descends to the heels, have features less regular.

  9. Some account of the further course of the Niger, and the towns in its vicinage towards the East.

  10. Now where there is no constituted judge, as between independent states there is not, the vicinage itself is the natural judge.

  11. For many miles around, the vicinage presents a volcanic aspect, wild, barren, howlingly dreary.

  12. The sense of familiarity with the vicinage grew as we observed our surroundings.

  13. 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.

  14. At Griff's gates stood the cottage of Dame Moore's school, where the novelist began her education, and where years after she used to collect the children of the vicinage for religious instruction each Sabbath.

  15. We have talked with some in the vicinage who remembered seeing Smith and his family riding in this perennial chariot, drawn by a plough-horse which was harnessed with plough-lines and driven by a plough-boy.

  16. In her infancy her family removed to the vicinage of Dunoon, on the western shore of the Firth, eight miles below Greenock, leaving the oldest daughter at Ardrossan.

  17. Its adherents, threatened with the gallows and stake, or driven into banishment, could no longer look for encouragement or direction toward Paris and the vicinage of the court.

  18. Coffee grows spontaneously in the vicinage of Timbuctoo, south of the Nile Elabeed.

  19. We might yet hold out here, but for the rest of England we can do nothing; and our being here costs some Englishmen in the vicinage very dearly!

  20. DEAR SIR, It will not be possible to establish in the federal courts the jury trial of the vicinage so well as in the state courts.

  21. 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 pomoerium, but as a rural district.

  22. It made him look handsomer, he was so composed; it made his vicinage pleasant, it was so peace-restoring.

  23. I was too much vexed at tea with the vicinage of Mr. Sam Wynne to be able to eat, and now I am really hungry.

  24. From the piazza of the Lake House, fronting the water, a comprehensive view of the historic grounds in the vicinage may be seen, as delineated in the picture.

  25. In October, 1777, the vicinage we are now considering was the scene of much commotion.

  26. He had received an order from the Committee of Safety at that city, when Burgoyne marched from Fort Edward, to remove every Tory or disaffected person from his vicinage into Connecticut.

  27. With all the face of Nature before him he yet prefers the vicinage of men, and comes out of his hilly fastnesses as soon as we provide him shelter.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicinage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.