They hang about the purlieus of the metropolis: Brook. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
Beside it even the purlieus of Rome sink into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He passed the greater part of his life in the purlieus of Little. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
An Enjimmyun is not to be found in the purlieus of Chancery Lane. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
Splendid the palace he rais'd -- the gin-palace in Poesy's purlieus. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
But of late even the purlieus of his club had become dangerous ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
Her magnificent apartment is quitted for a dreary lodging in the purlieus of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Upward and onward, or down into the purlieus of the crude beginnings of things. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
The houses, however, in those purlieus are substantial, warm, and of good size. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
He was a solicitor by profession, having his office somewhere in the purlieus of. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
Such incidents are by no means uncommon in the Bowery and its purlieus at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
People who keep lodgings at public places expect to get by every one who comes into their purlieus. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
They constitute rather the purlieus, and, in general, afford better pasturage than the forest itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
I avoided the bridge, and, crossing the river by a ferry boat, was soon in the purlieus of the Sorbonne. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
At house and home with me shall no one despair: in my purlieus do I protect every one from his wild beasts. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Methodists, haunted the wretched purlieus of his fast fading-out mind, and he resolved to go to town no more. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
As a general thing the Regulars are recruited from the purlieus of great cities, and are men of no character. '. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The 140-seat super-lounge brings classic, simple food from France and other food-friendly purlieus to the Bowery. From Wordnik.com. [A New York Spin on French Classics] Reference
But regularly they dipped their wings in pitch black; Notting Hill, for instance, or the purlieus of Clerkenwell. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
Essex House and its purlieus, once the abode of the powerful earls of that name, were formerly a part of the Temple. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
This was the purlieus in which her sister lived, she thought, turning; she must often come back this way at night alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
Let me not, therefore, be condemned for having chosen my principal character from the purlieus of treachery and fraud, when. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
The man ultimately entered the purlieus of a police station and joined a queue of exotics who were waiting to be registered. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference
He disappeared at dinner-time into the mysterious purlieus of Leicester Square, and dark ordinaries only frequented by Frenchmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Golightly party, who resided some north of Oxford Street, in the purlieus of Fitzroy Square, and some even to the east of Tottenham. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
While the Private Secretary is playing hide-and-seek in the passages and purlieus his Member waits for him in the Secretaries 'Room. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
Bayswater became too cold to hold her, and early in the following year it was announced that a large house in the purlieus of Grosvenor. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891] Reference
In her hand she carried a cane of fine ebony, and altogether appeared a radiant vision of a fine woman in the purlieus of Britain Street. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Somewhere along the way it has to decide its own fate, upward and onward, or downward into the purlieus of the crude beginnings of things. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
The way led through lovely Toorak, with its green lawns and white houses, up Richmond Hill, and down into the unattractive purlieus of Collingwood. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
And as he rode through the purlieus of his city, the white mane of his amber-coloured steed was all that he could clearly see in the dusk of the high streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
Gigantic females, ‘stentoriously laughing and gaping with tehees of laughter’ at unseasonable hours of night and morning, haunted the purlieus of his abode. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
It was on the dawning of a fine morning in August, that I left the brick-and-mortar purlieus of home, and in company with two young friends, commenced this excursion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828] Reference
We are content to leave all the pride of its machinery to Messrs. Applegath and Cowper, and the clang of its engine to the peaceful purlieus of Printing-house Square. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829] Reference
He carried no bombs, but as he flew over Potsdam he could not refrain from letting fall, by way of reprisal, a weighty souvenir upon the purlieus of the Imperial Palace. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917] Reference
To look a litter farther back: Canst thou forget what my sufferings were from this haughty beauty in the whole time of my attendance upon her proud motions, in the purlieus of. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The intended editor was a little old man, who sat in a kind of wooden pavilion in a small garden behind a house in one of the purlieus of the city, composing tunes upon a piano. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
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