单词 | in the vicinage |
释义 | > as lemmasin the (also, this, our, etc.) vicinage b. Frequently in the phrase in the (also, this, our, etc.) vicinage. ΚΠ 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 182 I am afraid of a Potgunne or a Squibbe; farre from running upon Muskets and Swords points as they say in our Vicinage. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 187 No less than twenty thousand Pounds worth of this Coarse Commodity [i.e. lime] is yearly made, and vended in the Vicinage. 1676 Doctr. of Devils 92 Until he have gotten the favour and blessing of all the Witches in the Vicinage, yea in the Hemisphere. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxiv. 230 She is the only flower of fragrance, that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past. 1791 H. Walpole Let. to Misses Berry 11 Sept. (1840) VI. 455 The French ladies in my vicinage. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 129 He had lived in retirement, conversing almost entirely with those of his own principles in the vicinage . View more context for this quotation 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. viii. 274 The..recommendation of a sufficient population in the vicinage. 1883 Manch. Examiner 3 Oct. 5/4 People in the vicinage..were not in a mood to regard it as a gratuitous picturesque display. < as lemmas |
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