I have seen nothing to be compared with the tasteful villas on green velvet lawns sloping down to the limpid Thames, near Richmond, with umbrageous trees bending their leafy branches to the earth and water; or to the colonnaded mansions peeping forth from the well-wooded grounds of Roehampton and its vicinage.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
The old major had ever detested society in one of its phases-that is, the claims of mere vicinage, the duty to call and be called upon by people who live near, when there is scarcely a thought or taste in common.
"His Sombre Rivals"
E. P. Roe
For the young rascal had fled as soon as he had witnessed the awful colossus in such close vicinage.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley