Outskirts

例句/造句/用法:

• I should have walked on to the church if the conversation of two men and a woman on the outskirts of the crowd had not caught my ear. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• I stopped the recruiting service, and disposed the troops about the outskirts of the city so as to guard all approaches. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I met the Prince in the New Road, at the outskirts of London, some time afterwards. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• Among those circling futilely the outskirts of the banqueters was old Tublat. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She stopped in the outskirts of the town, where she had noticed trunks for sale, and purchased a handsome one. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• When the wagon approached the outskirts of the town I was met by a large crowd. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• We are on the outskirts of Lee, said my companion. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• One very big one, I killed at dusk in the outskirts of the village on my way home one night in November. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• Their residences are usually on the outskirts of 'the Rules,' chiefly lying within a circle of one mile from the obelisk in St. George's Fields. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• But this time it was no breaking away at the outskirts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• My wanderings had led me round the outskirts of the village, and had brought me out at the lower end of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There was a considerable force of State militia at Camp Jackson, on the outskirts of St. Louis, at the time. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• He directed me to the clerk's abode, a cottage at some little distance off, standing by itself on the outskirts of the forsaken village. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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