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
The people from the People's Republic are all dedicated revolutionaries, but they are also well-born intellectuals, educated elitists who have traveled widely and are no strangers to the purlieus of diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Senator Pepper, from the less gilded purlieus of northwest Florida, stands by everything Franklin Roosevelt has ever done or presumably will do.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pigs were driven into the purlieus of the forest, where boys beat the trees to supply them with acorns.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
