The young people will have been romping about the parlours or the purlieus for a couple of hours--and will all make their appearance in the beauty of high health and high spirits.
The world was full of mists; the clouds were resolved into drizzling rain; every perspective of expectation was restricted by the limited purlieus of the present.
In Bishopsgate Ward, near the church of St. Botolph, was a French colony, their purlieusforming a quadrant, called Petty France.
The men of the galleys lived as a colony by themselves in Mincing Lane; the street leading to their purlieus was called, indifferently, Galley Row and Petit Wales.
Some of these transformations of ancient monastic purlieus may be briefly instanced.
I consider that London's cab horses were substantially better off than the section of London's poor among whom I lived in places like South Tottenham, the purlieus of that long unlovely highway--the Seven Sisters Road.
There have been religions, existing through long ages and extending over vast empires, in which the organs of generation were considered as sacred symbols and prostitution in the purlieus of the temple regarded as pleasing to the gods.
I avoided the bridge, and, crossing the river by a ferry boat, was soon in the purlieus of the Sorbonne.
The depredations of the Apaches have been of such long duration, that, beyond the immediate purlieus of the towns, the whole country from New Mexico to the borders of Durango is almost entirely depopulated.
All the purlieus of bigelovia and artemisia are noisy with them for a month.
It is worth watching the year round in the purlieus of the long-leafed pines.
Then beyond the mouth of the Stour and Avon, are reached the purlieus of Bournemouth, where the Island drops out of sight.
But here we come within thepurlieus of Ventnor, and round to the “Back of the Island.
Backward, flow backward, O Living's Advance, Back from the purlieus of Airy Romance!
How can I dream of a subject aesthetic, Far from thepurlieus of prose?
Gigantic females, "stentoriously laughing and gaping with tehees of laughter" at unseasonable hours of night and morning, haunted the purlieus of his abode.
The opening scenes in the Pacific were like Paradise, as the author said, to dwellers in Brixton, or other purlieus of London.
Those we visited were in the purlieus of the old "Rookery," and for these dens, I was informed, the men paid fourpence a night!
My experience in these Whitehall purlieus during the war perhaps provides some explanation of the theory, so sedulously hugged by the community, that interest and influence are all-powerful inside the War Office portals.
Honest men so In the way ignorant, through thieves' purlieus go.
Two footpads, who seem to have frequented the purlieus of Coomb Park.
One who spent his boyhood in the shifting purlieus of the old Laguna told me how in the hollows where the scrub oaks shrugged off the wind and the sand waved like water, the nameless coffins were covered and uncovered between a night and day.
Instead of alternating between the purlieus of Water street and Sing Sing, they are many of them in a fair way to make a fortune.
She will be driven on by an avenging fate, which she cannot resist if she would, until she is one of those wretched, lost creatures, whose dens are in the purlieus of the Five Points and Water street.
In leaving them, they begin to go down the ladder, until they reach the dance- houses and purlieus of the city, where disease and death in their most horrible forms await them.
Poachers, and anglers, and Methodists, haunted the wretched purlieus of his fast fading-out mind, and he resolved to go to town no more.
But, indeed, his whole rule was far too mild, and under this mistaken leniency the interior of the gaol was more like a bear-garden or the noisy purlieus of a public-house than a prison.
And then Mr. Furnival strolled off to look for the attorney among the various purlieus frequented by the learned strangers.
Had he lived in Alston all his life, and spent his days in the purlieus of that court, he could not have been more at home or have been more promptly obeyed.
Had she been quite certain she would have attacked her rival there, laying bodily hands upon her in the purlieus of the Lord Chancellor's Court.
