purlieus
Example Sentences
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Or a cumulative juggernaut that is operating outside the purlieus of human agency.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2017
But pure imagination must have been responsible for Gary's artistic ease in inhabiting the soft purlieus of the feminine psyche otherwise occupied by Jimson's earthy early love, Sara Monday.
From Time Magazine Archive
From there, the controversy spread to the mossy purlieus of British universities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up got Kathleen Murphy from her bed in London's purlieus at 3 a. m.; to the Serpentine went she.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I was pricking through the purlieus of the forest after that Beast, you know, when I met with a solemn friar of orders grey, and he told me. It’s the very latest news.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
