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Sentences ending with precincts

But there was no time for much consideration, for at this instant the gong, which was sounded to call the defenders of the Serapeum together, rang through the precincts. [10]
Could I believe my senses when I found that it was turned into a gymnasium, and heard the low thunder of ninepin balls, and the crash of tumbling pins from those precincts? [6]
I have not invested Klea and Irene with this function, but have simply placed them as wards of the Serapeum and growing up within its precincts. [10]
It was sufficient, in short, to know that Bevis Marks was revolutionised by these popular movements, and that peace and quietness fled from its precincts. [12]
This mysterious passage had lately been secretly cleared out, and it was now to be used for the transport of the arms to the temple precincts. [10]
I think he found shelter at last under a roof which held numerous inmates, some of whom had seen better and many of whom had known worse days than those which they were passing within its friendly and not exclusive precincts. [6]

More example sentences with the word precincts in them

Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
The folding-doors are wide open to every Protestant to enter all the privileged precincts and private apartments of the various exclusive religious organizations. [6]
He obeyed, and was promptly arrested as a suspicious character prowling within the precincts of the palace. [5]
How dared he venture to wear a sword in the precincts of the Emperor's residence, contrary to the law, and, moreover, a weapon of such unusual length and width, which had not been carried for a long while? [10]
To have invaded these precincts, the muddy, turbulent river of individualism had risen higher than he would have thought possible . [9]
He knew that the visitor was specially favored who penetrated these precincts so far as to get an interview, usually fruitless, with Henderson's confidential man. [4]
This is within the precincts of the mouldering and venerable Briddhkal Temple, which is one of the oldest in Benares. [5]
She was leaving the precincts of a life in which, socially, she had been born again. [11]
The fate of the great god of the heathen was sealed, but in the wide precincts of the Serapeum no one thought of surrender or of prompt defeat. [10]
The house where the aged couple lived with their son, Admiral Eumedes, was on the edge of the precincts of the temple. [10]
Every one knows that this was Klopstock's birthplace; but the greatest geographer of all ages, Karl Ritter, whose mighty mind grasped the whole universe as if it were the precincts of his home, also first saw the light of the world here. [10]
Passing along the street, he had realised that he had no moral claim upon anything or anybody within these precincts of his past life. [11]
The Cure's voice seemed to calm the agitated sense, to bring it back to the outer precincts of understanding. [11]
Pithom was the sacred name of the temple precincts of the desert city of Thekut--[The biblical Suchot]--near Heroopolis, where the citizens lived and pursued their business. [10]
Outside the temple precincts too all had been still; but just now a clatter of hoofs and rumble of wheels was audible through the silence, otherwise so profound that it seemed increased by every sound. [10]
Within its twilight precincts I have often prayed for light, like Ajax, for the daylight found scanty entrance, and the gaslight never illuminated its dark recesses. [6]
With the setting of the sun came a clatter of tins and a savoury odour throughout Khartoum to its farthest precincts, for it was Ramadan, and no man ate till sunset. [11]
These nurseries of mine went smoothly and privately along undisturbed in their obscure country retreats, for nobody was allowed to come into their precincts without a special permit--for I was afraid of the Church. [5]
But the pert milliner saw nothing of all this; she did not stand abashed in the sacred precincts of a home where seven times the Angel of Death had hovered over a birth-bed. [11]
Perhaps the old merchant's stalwart headman had died of his wounds, and his father wished to send him--Orion--across the Nile to the Arab viceroy to obtain forgiveness for the murder of a Moslem, actually within the precincts of the governor's house. [10]
Dormy had of late haunted the precincts of the Place du Vier Prison, and was the only person besides Maitresse Aimable whom Guida welcomed. [11]
Murderous knaves who, in the heart of the city, close to the imperial precincts, endangered the lives of peaceful people at night! [10]
I confess to having felt a certain awe on entering the precincts made sacred by their precious contents. [6]
The chief minister gave a private order that she and her disastrous donkey be flogged beyond the precincts of the palace and commanded to come within them no more. [5]
The proportional quotas for the different wards, towns, townships, precincts, or election districts, or counties, will be made known through the Provost Marshal-General's Bureau, and account will be taken of the credits and deficiencies on former quotas. [7]
I have sometimes felt, when convoying a distinguished stranger through its precincts to its door, that he might question whether star-eyed Science had not missed her way when she found herself in this not too attractive locality. [6]
During all the eight months of Carnac's absence he prowled in the precincts of memory. [11]
Never have I been beyond its precincts, and it contains all on earth that is dear and precious to me. [10]
Olympius himself for a moment despaired; for his ecstatic adherents had during the night turned to poltroons and tipplers, and the sacred precincts of the sanctuary looked as if a battle had been fought and lost there. [10]

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