How To Use purlieu In A Sentence
- A purlieu is a familiar or outlying place; a purview is a range or scope. Languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.
- It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
- Here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of Walham Green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy ‘medium’ and the squalid séance.
- 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
- Having sent in his card, he waited a long while in that lofty purlieu. The Silver Spoon
- 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
- '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
- 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
- To spend a theater-going weekend or so in these charming purlieus is a warmly recommended experience.
- 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.
