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
Last week Atlas, still little known beyond the purlieus of Wall Street, acquired control of two well known investment trusts, and with them, management contracts.
From Time Magazine Archive
French is still popular within the purlieus staked out by France's masterful 17th century diplomat, Cardinal Richelieu; it is used in Common Market areas * and is popular among Eastern European emissaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the academic purlieus of Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, where Tait University of Good News was founded three years ago, last week another institution of learning was born.
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
