How To Use Purlieu In A Sentence
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Stuck with his family in a purlieu of Rome densely populated by other displaced Jews, he immerses himself in his memories, which include seeing his father murdered by Cossacks and, just as hauntingly, informing on his cousin for Zionist activity.
Lost in Transit
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She used a term oftener heard in the purlieus of criminal courts.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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They have made the big names look bland and left them languishing in the purlieus of the department store.
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Even in the darkest purlieu of Morocco's underworld," Eberhardt writes, "such men can reach the magic horizon where they are free to build their dream-palaces of delight.
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Sir Everard Powell was there in his bath-chair at twelve, with a doctor on one side of him and a friend on the other, in some purlieu of the House, and did his duty like a fine old Briton as he was.
Phineas Finn
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Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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Hmm, "nonce," "chiaroscuro," and "purlieu" were the only ones I knew -- and I agree with elck that 3 out of 18 definitely equates to duncehood.
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One of the more enjoyable moments of a Scottish Cup final is that hour or so before kick-off when you take a gentle stroll around the purlieus of Hampden Park.
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For further evidence, tour the purlieus of your state Capitol, contrasting the vulgar ostentation on the marbled side of the street with the squalid reality on the living side.
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Carmine stood listening to the sound of his footsteps retreating down the hall, and prayed that his most beloved friend would chance upon a greener feminine field in his own purlieu.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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Antony asked, relieved to discuss something inarguably in his purlieu.
Antony and Cleopatra
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As a purlieu hunter, I have hitherto beaten about the circuit of the forest of this microcosm, and followed only those outward adventitious causes.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A purlieu is a familiar or outlying place; a purview is a range or scope.
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Now based not in the West London Street of Lancaster Gate but in the vastly more costly, rent of far over £2 million a year, purlieu of Soho Square in Central London.
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The National Art Collections Fund has mounted an exhibition, impressive even in the drab purlieus of the Hayward Gallery, of some of the most notable works it has helped to retain in Great Britain during the past hundred years.
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To spend a theater-going weekend or so in these charming purlieus is a warmly recommended experience.
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The first real test is that of spending a long and arduous evening in the alehouses and outer purlieus of London, and here it has to be in the company of Dickens and nobody else.
The Dark Side of Dickens
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'pasquinade' as shall take you into these Holy of Holy purlieus of mischief and money-making, you will deserve to be chief of the
Temporal Power
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Secondaries: Ringwood, and Hounsdown in Totton are "outstanding", Priestlands in Lymington is "good" with "outstanding" features; Noadswood and Applemore, both in Dibden Purlieu, and Burgate in Fordingbridge all "good".
Let's move to … the New Forest, Hampshire
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Having sent in his card, he waited a long while in that lofty purlieu.
The Silver Spoon
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The indignation aroused by his enormities has been too crushing to be borne by living man, though sheathed with the brass and triple cheek of Mark Twain…He has vamosed, cut stick, absquatulated; and among the pine forests of the Sierras, or amid the purlieus of the city of earthquakes, he will tarry awhile, and the office of the Enterprise will become purified…33
Mark Twain
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Here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of Walham Green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy ‘medium’ and the squalid séance.
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It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1