Looking for sentences and phrases with the word purlieu? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
It was the purlieu of Rob Roy MacGregor, whose exploits can be seen at the Visitor Centre in Callander.
The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is, in fact, a purlieu where the public-houses are overcrowded and the baths not places of great resort.
From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.
Clean-shaved, nattily dressed actors come to this quiet purlieu to study their parts.
Hamlyn's purlieu had never known such gaieties as during the fifteen years of Mrs. Allerton's married life.
A great fear seized her that it would be impossible to keep Hamlyn's purlieu, and she was stricken with panic.
The girl was brought up among exiles and political criminals in the purlieu of Montmartre.
Eye of mocker has not seen, nor foot of unbeliever trod this purlieu, the last to receive his blessing.
The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.
Even if deemed representative of the overall type and deriving from the Terminal Period IVb destruction, this sub-type may typiry Hasanlu and its purlieu.
Woollard, of Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire, will serve at least half of his sentence for violent disorder in a young offenders institution.
Sims, of Dibden Purlieu, Hants, said he had only used a broom to shoo the cat away but he was found guilty.
