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They had drifted from the outskirts of the crowded table and found themselves in the thinner crowd of saunterers.
SEPTIMUSWILLIAM J. LOCKE
Numerous carriages were standing on the outskirts of the crowd.
LE COCU (NOVELS OF PAUL DE KOCK VOLUME XVIII)CHARLES PAUL DE KOCK
There were scouts on the outskirts, to whom the priest said, "Has the magistrate arrived?"
A SECRET INHERITANCE (VOLUME 2 OF 3)B. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEON
A few of the other boys had stayed out to see the fun, and were lounging around the outskirts of the corral.
SI KLEGG, BOOK 1 (OF 6)JOHN MCELROY
A stand was made on the outskirts of the town, but before night the fighting was taking place in the streets of the town.
In the outskirts the unfortunate pedestrian had to wade to the knees.
THE CHRISTMAS STORY FROM DAVID HARUMEDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT
The Slippertons' house was on the outskirts of a small town in Buckinghamshire.
THE PSYCHICAL RESEARCHER'S TALE - THE SCEPTICAL POLTERGEISTJ. D. BERESFORD
We can discount and overlook the vagaries and foibles which will undoubtedly play around the outskirts of the movement.
RURAL LIFE AND THE RURAL SCHOOLJOSEPH KENNEDY
There was only a fence on that side of the grounds, and to look through it was like looking into the outskirts of a forest.
A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN AND HIS FAMILYMRS. (MARGARET) OLIPHANT
In the outskirts are numerous mud-huts, all well populated with women and children.
WORDS RELATED TO OUTSKIRTS
- absence
- ambit
- amplitude
- area
- bit
- breadth
- compass
- country mile
- expanse
- extension
- extent
- far piece
- farness
- gap
- good ways
- heavens
- hinterland
- horizon
- lapse
- length
- objective
- orbit
- outpost
- outskirts
- purlieu
- purview
- radius
- reach
- remoteness
- remove
- scope
- separation
- size
- sky
- space
- span
- spread
- stretch
- sweep
- way
- width
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