purlieus

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Or a cumulative juggernaut that is operating outside the purlieus of human agency.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2017

Up got Kathleen Murphy from her bed in London's purlieus at 3 a. m.; to the Serpentine went she.

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

Everything grown in areas governed by the Viet Cong, everything manufactured within Viet Cong purlieus, every item that passes through its roads and waterways, is taxed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes Sir Grummore came on a visit Sometimes King Pellinore could be described galloping over the purlieus after the Beast, or with the Beast after him if they happened to have got muddled up.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White