Outskirts

Examples

• 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I stopped the recruiting service, and disposed the troops about the outskirts of the city so as to guard all approaches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I met the Prince in the New Road, at the outskirts of London, some time afterwards. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Among those circling futilely the outskirts of the banqueters was old Tublat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She stopped in the outskirts of the town, where she had noticed trunks for sale, and purchased a handsome one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• When the wagon approached the outskirts of the town I was met by a large crowd. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We are on the outskirts of Lee, said my companion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• One very big one, I killed at dusk in the outskirts of the village on my way home one night in November. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• 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. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But this time it was no breaking away at the outskirts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My wanderings had led me round the outskirts of the village, and had brought me out at the lower end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was a considerable force of State militia at Camp Jackson, on the outskirts of St. Louis, at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typed by Alphonse