Can you suppose that in opposition to the candidacy of Monsieur Minard (whose presence in these precincts seems to me rather singular) you have the slightest chance of success?
It was nearly two o'clock when la Peyrade made his entrance into the precincts of the justice-of-peace of the 12th arrondissement.
We have no need of you or your money; and I request you not to honor these precincts any longer with your presence.
It was the French onion-seller whom Aunt Sarah Dymmock had driven from the precincts of the Manor House at the point of her sunshade.
You may be very sure that 'the bootlace man,' as you call him, has not been admitted to the inner precincts of the mystery.
Mahomet's scouts had only reached Bedr, reconnoitered and retired, when Abu Sofian approached the well within its precincts and demanded of a man belonging to a neighbouring tribe if there were strangers in the vicinity.
He set himself deliberately to break up their strongholds one by one, and did not swerve from his purpose until the whole of the hated race had been removed either by slaughter or by enforced exile from the precincts of his adopted city.
The formula would not now be heard at Delhi, or elsewhere beyond the precincts of the High Court.
No existing building within the precincts can be referred with certainty to an earlier date than that of Akbar.
Driven onward by a high wind, it consumed street after street, and at length approached the arsenal, within whose precincts were a shot-tower and the powder- magazine.
I hope, at least, it was a species of exaggerated high-flown sentimentality, rather than mere feminine curiosity that tempted you to precincts revolting to the delicacy and refinement with which my imagination invested you.
Taking, however, the precaution of securing his name, together with his particular office and designation in the prison, I parted from him as if to go home, but in fact to resume my sad roamings up and down the precincts of the jail.
He had not ventured beyond the precincts of the garden; and it might have been supposed that Captain Villegagnon had forgotten his existence, as no order had been sent him to join his ship.
He then took refuge within the precincts of a church, and refused to surrender himself to justice.
The natives whom we met here were fine-looking men, enjoying contentment and happiness within theprecincts of their native woods.
Thy Lord hath verily singled thee out for His love, and hath led thee into His precincts of holiness, and made thee to enter the garden of those who are His close companions, and hath blessed thee with beholding His beauty.
He will find the living ones thriving within the precincts of their Lord, and the dead sunk down in the lowest abyss of perdition.
It is the oldest church fabric in the city, and within its precinctswe stand amid the surroundings of early Christian congregations.
Within the precincts of the palace, the royal guards, drawn up in two lines, killed with battle-axes unhappy wretches who were brought to them unarmed and thrust beneath their very weapons.
The presence of the soldiers in the precincts of the representatives of the nation seemed to them a violation of the rights of Parliament almost as grave as had been the vulgar invasion.
In company with Mrs. Susie Fifield and others, she held meetings in all the precincts of Fillmore county, securing a good vote.
While the women of these two precincts were enjoying the exercise of their political rights, the women of Olympia were suffering the vexation of disappointment.
Something of this kind here happened, when wisdom and folly, vice and piety, learning and gaiety, terribly earnest even to death and light frivolity, jostled each other in the stately precincts of Parnassus and Olympus.
The nobility and country gentry came crowding in, and all the new houses in the Strand and Charing Cross were occupied, and a throng of young Cavaliers filled the courts and precincts of the palace.
His fancy filled his mind with images of some possible oversight and of some unseen danger which might be lurking even then in theprecincts of the vast rambling palace.
The affair caused the greatest interest, and the Committee Room was thronged with all who could command sufficient influence to obtain entrance, and crowds filled the corridors and the precincts of the House.
These belong to the Gregorians, and we were told that the Roman Catholics have a small chapel within the precincts of the old town.
Kill not game while in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb.
But when ye are clear of the sacred precincts and of pilgrim garb, ye may hunt and let not the hatred of some people in (once) shutting you out of the Sacred Mosque lead you to transgression (and hostility on your part).
This is for those whose household is not in (the precincts of) the Sacred Mosque.
The result was that the ancient spinster at once removed the outraged youth from the sanguinary precinctsof Mecklemburg House, and that Mr. Fletcher dismissed the offending usher.
Within the precincts of a hospital, I wandered in a sympathetic mood; Where face to face with wormwood and with gall, With wrecks of pain and stern vicissitude, The eye unused to human misery Might view life's undercurrent vividly.
He should have left for abroad the next day, ere the news of the discovery of a mysterious murder had reached the precincts of his own park.
Never were greater pains taken to keep a community pure than within the sacred precincts of the Derry walls; and never was Protestantism more tenderly fostered by the state--so far as secular advantages could do it.
