It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference
A purlieu is a familiar or outlying place; a purview is a range or scope. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.] Reference
Having sent in his card, he waited a long while in that lofty purlieu. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
"That does not come within my purview" is a jurisdictional statement; "...does not come within my purlieu" is a geographical one. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.] Reference
As has been said: 'Scotland' and 'Class' in the same purlieu!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
What a lovely moving away / moving in present! purlieu | 11 Mar. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
Farrell tightly beneath the elbow, and steered through this enchanted purlieu. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
The second is parrying as for a glance with the house of the purlieu each other. From Wordnik.com. [Dezeen] Reference
We cannot deter - three or four young women, purlieu - mine the atate of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ...] Reference
Signors of the Night were not searching every purlieu of Venice to take him into custody. From Wordnik.com. [Marietta A Maid of Venice] Reference
It had been expected that the red monster would raise its head, if at all, in some purlieu of the east side. From Wordnik.com. [An Original Belle] Reference
The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
Were California one state today; a dozen next week; in July six or seven, and next December but a purlieu to Arizona?. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called Durnover. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
Be this as it may, there was to me some unfamiliar purlieu of the staid university town that he thought would be of interest. From Wordnik.com. [PROLOGUE AND A MEETING] Reference
It was in my second year, 1885, that returning from an out-patient case one night, I turned into a large tent erected in a purlieu of. From Wordnik.com. [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference
But such betrayals never escaped him when, in one of his inimitable disguises, he penetrated to the purlieu of Whitechapel, to the dens of. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Scorpion] Reference
I missed them live last year and am kicking myself still (see also: These Arms Are Snakes and a billion other good bands). purlieu | 11 Mar. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
“She is, and I’m sure your presence within her purlieu will by now have been reported.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
A shamefaced way whether he was being decoyed into some purlieu to be made away with as a supposed rich Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary] Reference
Pompeius, this is your purlieu. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
They lay in the purlieu of Sertorius. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In what purlieu of Cockayne?. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference
Mark well yon crowded purlieu nigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Advocate Vol. III No. II February, 1870] Reference
In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
But some dim purlieu of the Edgware Road. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
But its pastoral purlieu is what really sells it. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
These purlieu men are devils; and the hounds. From Wordnik.com. [Emblems, divine and moral] Reference
3. purlieu. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Is "purlieu" the same thing as "purview"?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.] Reference
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