Last night we had a smart gale, which drove us forward at the rate of twelve knots; and this morning we were threatened with one of those squalls that often occur in the vicinity of the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, which we have just passed.
There was a company of Indians encamped in the vicinity of Oroville, for the purpose of gathering their harvest of acorns, which grew in great abundance there.
In the immediate vicinity of the New East India House and the Oriental Club.
Taylor has totally prohibited the traffic in intoxicating liquors in the vicinity of the army.
Late news from the east furnishes the report that robberies and piracies are of hourly occurrence in the immediate vicinity of Hong Kong.
In the vicinityare the Chelsea Barracks (not actually in the borough).
Of several interesting mansions in the vicinity one, the Great House, belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, and a former Pengelly House was the residence of Richard Cromwell the Protector after his resignation.
During the American Civil War it was one of the most important strategic points in the Confederacy, and in its immediate vicinity were fought two great battles.
The vicinity of such populous centres as Liverpool and Manchester, as well as the several large towns within the county, makes cattle and dairy-farming profitable.
The city is full of strange, wild rumors of Rebel raids in thevicinity and of trains seized in sight of the Capital.
I don't fancy they'll be anywhere in the vicinity by morning.
They discussed matters a few minutes, and then, carefully observing the surroundings, decided to conceal the bicycles in the vicinityof the spring and seek for the mouth of the cave once more.
Outbreaks of the hickory bark borer occur periodically throughout the northeastern United States, and during the past five years many hickory trees in this vicinity have died.
These can be counted on to bear in thevicinity of New York.
The ladies of Concord and vicinity were present at this civic and patriotic repast; and it added much to the interest and splendour of the scene.
General Washington with Lincoln, Knox, and their aids were in the vicinity of this action, in very exposed situations.
He proceeded to the camp in the vicinity of York-Town, where Cornwallis was posted, the last of September.
The remains of these as well as bones of giraffe-like camels, pony-sized horses, and sloths have been found in the vicinity of the canyon.
There are especially good views in the vicinity of the second water crossing if one will look to the west of the road.
In the vicinity of Palo Duro Canyon, rocks of Late Cenozoic age are directly underlain by Permian and Triassic formations.
In August the regiment was withdrawn from the vicinity of Grave, and ordered to join the forces under Marshal Turenne.
The army accordingly advanced to the vicinity of Tournay, drove in the French out-posts on the 10th of May, and on the morning of the following day moved from its camp-ground to attack the enemy.
Galle, of the Observatory at Berlin, requesting him to undertake a telescopic search for the new planet in the vicinity which the mathematical calculation had indicated for the whereabouts of the planet at that particular time.
Fag Alley was reached and in its vicinity several machine guns were captured, and the teams either killed or taken prisoners.
Battalion headquarters were established in Salmon Trench in the vicinityof a locality known as Salmon Point.
It was to take part in two big battles in the vicinity and add greatly to its honours and leave many of its members entombed in soldiers' graves in what was to be perhaps the biggest graveyard of its kind in the world.
This meant that a crater was formed, and though the enemy wire in the immediate vicinity of the crater would be destroyed, the obstacle effect of the whole entanglement remained almost in its entirety.
The Valley had one great drawback; there were no wells in the vicinity from which water could be drawn.
On the 4th March a successful raid took place on an enemy post opposite to Number 5 Crater, in the vicinity of the Railway.
The parades took place in the vicinity of Fort Macmahon, which had been used by the Germans as quarters for prisoners of war.
Here the men were accommodated in houses in the centre of the town in the vicinity of the Church and the Rue Fanien.
In the vicinity of this crater there were some overhead traverses to prevent the enemy snipers from enfilading the trench, probably constructed after several casualties had been incurred.
The following evening the Battalion was withdrawn to a bivouac area outside Croisilles, which vicinity was shelled by a 350 m.
Since his resignation there he has frequently supplied pulpits in thevicinity of Boston, always to great acceptance.
Benjamin Whittemore, preached with success three times in the vicinity of Boston, and was called to Whitingham, Vt.
He preached in that vicinity for a short time, and then awhile in Ludlow, Vt.
His first sermon was delivered in a barn at Litchfield, and he continued preaching in the vicinity until his ordination in 1837.
He was at first with the Methodists, and came into the Universalist ministry, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, in 1830, preaching his first Universalist sermon in the Lombard Street Church, where Rev.
In the vicinity are the remains of an old house of the Lundins, dating from the reign of David II.
The surrounding country is hilly and the river is picturesque; in the vicinitythere are many lakes and ponds abounding in salmon and trout.
There is a salt lake or lagoon between the Cape Palmas river and the vicinity of the Cavalla.
In a general way it is supposed that the lands lying between the lower St Paul's river and the Sierra Leone frontier are not much mineralized, except that in the vicinity of river mouths there are indications of bitumen.
In its vicinitythe praetor's tribunal, removed from the comitium in the 2nd century B.
Noddy Newman was an orphan; and no one in the vicinityof Woodville even knew what his real name was.
It was useless for him to stay in the vicinity of Woodville; and the only safe plan for him to adopt was, to go away to some other part of the country, or go to sea at once.
We used in our big display advertisements a nomenclature of the turf that had never before been heard except in the vicinity of the stables, and we coined words and phrases to suit almost every occasion.
The reason was this: In its attack the Engineering & Mining Journal stated that two drillholes put down by the Nevada Consolidated in the immediate vicinity of Ely Central had failed to show better than nine-tenths of one per cent.
This treaty did not remain in force for any great length of time, for we hear again in 1647 that the Sulus invaded the Bisayas and harassed the vicinity of Zamboanga.
Soon Dutch vessels, invited by Sulu emissaries sent to Java, appeared in the vicinity of Zamboanga and Jolo and threatened the Spanish garrison and incited the Moros to resist the Spaniards and attack their forces.
Soon after, two soldiers were killed in the vicinity of Jolo while cutting bamboo and another expedition was undertaken to Buhanginan to punish the murderers.
During his incumbency Sultan Harun lived at Mubu in the vicinity of Jolo.
The immediate vicinity of the fort was set with sharpened bamboo sticks and pits to hinder and trap the attacking forces.
Murders and juramentado attacks occurred in the vicinity of Jolo.
The settlement of Si'it lies at the head of the bay and in the immediate vicinity of a small lake of the same name.
Spanish records speak of a volcanic eruption in thevicinity of Jolo as late as 1840, and it is very likely that other volcanic action occurred prior to that date and after the arrival of the Samals in the fourteenth century.
In the immediate vicinity lay the Cuartel Espana, which was a large and substantial building occupying the northern extremity of the town, facing the bay on the side of Busbus.
This is the case in the mountains of Angat, situated in the Province of Bulacan, and also in the vicinity of the Baliwag River.
The hot springs of Los Baños are numerous, and in their vicinity large quantities of steam are seen to issue from the shore of the lake.
As a thousand nuts yield eight pitchers and a half, the vicinity of Borongan alone yields annually six million nuts; for which, assuming the average produce at fifty nuts, one hundred-twenty thousand fullbearing palms are required.
In the vicinity of the town are several beautiful valleys, which run into the mountains from the plain that borders the bay.
The rocks in the vicinity are all tufa, and some of the springs break out close to the cold water of the lake.
In the vicinity of Manila, twelve and a half cents per day is the usual wages; this in the provinces falls to six and nine cents.
The land only yields a rent when it is in the immediate vicinity of a large market, or when it is of the richest quality; the employment of capital in improvements only opens new channels for the extortions of the farmers of the revenue.
Even in the vicinity of Athens, the operations of the wheat and barley harvest generally occupy the exclusive attention of the agricultural population for three months.
No one approached the vicinity of the bluff where the fort had stood, for danger might not be over; but every possible point of observation within a safe distance was soon crowded with anxious and terrified observers.
During the cannonade Crab J had quietly slipped away from the vicinity of the Adamant, and now joined the repeller.
When we reached the vicinity of Dover, Forrest reported to Wheeler that he had but a scant supply of ammunition; and investigation disclosed the fact that Wharton’s brigade was little better off in this regard.
We reached thevicinity of Murfreesboro at daylight on the 13th.
Forrest kept on the left and in close touch with the enemy till the army turned aside, when we went on to the vicinityof Louisville.
A guide from the vicinity showed us a way across, by a ford unknown to the Yankees.
When we reached the vicinity of Murfreesboro, Captain Kyle with his squadron, consisting of Companies D and F, was ordered to ride around the place, reach the railroad leading to Nashville, and try to capture a train.
The sea outfall should not be in the vicinity of the bathing grounds, the pier, or parts of the shore where visitors mostly congregate; it should not be near oyster beds or lobster grounds.
In order to ensure accurate observations, the position chosen for the tide gauge should be in deep water in the immediate vicinity of the locus in quo, but so that it is not affected by the waves from passing vessels.
As soon as he appeared in the vicinity of the garden.
But a battalion of Nujeebs, entrenched in the vicinity of the fort, was cut up by an incursion of the mountaineers.
Some peasants in the vicinityof Futtehabad came out, spoke to the fugitives, and offered them bread to eat.
To his satisfaction, he gathered that everything was serene in the vicinity of the notch.
In the vicinity of Phoenix they say they have three hundred and sixty cloudless days out of every year, and perpetual spring is in the air.
Any girl found loitering in the vicinity of the passage that led to the dressing-room had been packed off in a most summary fashion, with a warning not to show herself there again under penalty of an imposition.
