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  • The property is known as The Vicarage because it was constructed in 1897 for the vicar of The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea.

    Junk Bond Buyer 2006

  • Perhaps nothing in her life at the Vicarage was a greater trial to Hester than to see the rules of fair play broken by the children with the connivance of their parents.

    Red Pottage 2004

  • The Vicarage is the only new building that breaks the mellowed grey tones of the wide, grass-bordered street.

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • The Vicarage was a pleasant house, with an air of comfort and moderate wealth about it.

    Watersprings Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • Perhaps nothing in her life at the Vicarage was a greater trial to

    Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • Right away in the fields, to be reached only by footpath, or by strangely circuitous lane, in the parish of Ranton, there stands a little old half-timbered house, known as the Vicarage Farm.

    Vanishing England 1892

  • The rare arrival of a visitor from some distant country-house to call at the Vicarage was the signal for every one, who could do so with decency, to escape from the unwelcome interruption.

    Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • My way back to the Vicarage was his way back to the inn.

    The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins 1856

  • As to in-constituency accommodation, what's wrong with the "Vicarage" principle?

    I attended Andrew MacKay's meeting and I think his position is now untenable Mark Reckons 2009

  • We were informed at previous consultation meetings that the "Vicarage" housed employees of the

    London SE1 community website 2010

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