505 examples of precinct in sentences

He had already, at the commencement of his pontificate, softened some of the rigors with which they were afflicted, and had directed that they might spread beyond that ignominious precinct; nor, however great was the outcry about it among the mob, did he forego the idea of bettering the condition of the followers of the Mosaic law."

The state of being "engaged" represented to him the introduction to this precinct of some young woman with whom his outside parley would have had the duration, distinctly, of his own convenience.

He allowed the foreigners (under the name of "Hellenes") to establish a precinct to himself,the Asians having theirs in Pergamum and the Bithynians theirs in Nicomedea.

You violate the sacred precinct of rational Representation.

Within ten minutes the cab delivered Dewey at a police station, and Andy told his story to the precinct captain.

This was before the precinct sergeant knocked on the door.

A strange and sad contrast, I thought, between this coarse, turbulent place, by a malign destiny ordained for the grave of Byron, and that peaceful, lovely, majestic church and precinct at Stratford-upon-Avon which enshrine the dust of Shakespeare....

His reputation can afford the absence of all memorial to him in Westminster Abbey,can endure it, perhaps, better than the English nation can,and it can endure the neglect and censure of the precinct of Nottingham.

In loyal temper he besought for the precinct of Zeus, whereto all men go up, a plant that should be a shadow of all folk in common, and withal a crown for valorous deeds.

Then on the evening the lovely shining of the fair-faced moon beamed forth, and all the precinct sounded with songs of festal glee, after the manner which is to this day for triumph.

In cities, three persons for each precinct are appointed to act by the council or by the mayor.

To prevent fraud, it is required that a person shall have been a resident of the precinct in which he offers to vote for at least ten days.

By-the-by, I do not understand why Satan and an assembly of witches should hold their revels within a consecrated precinct; but the weird scene has so established itself in the world's imaginative faith that it must be accepted as an authentic incident, in spite of rule and reason to the contrary.

How the Precinct of Livia was consecrated (chapter 8) How the Campus Agrippae was consecrated (chapter 8) How the Diribitorium was consecrated (chapter 8).

Also the house at Nola, where he passed away, was dedicated to him as a precinct.

[-9-] Not only in this way were his actions democratic, but no precinct was set apart for him either by his own choice or in any other way,that is to say at this time.

If each community would seek out and utilize the talent within its precinct, it might develop an intellectual and civic consciousness that would rival the spirit of ancient Greece.

I was sent out to speak in a voting precinct having 200 voters; 150 of those voters were Mexican greasers, 40 of them foreign-born citizens, and just 10 of them were born in this country; and I was supposed to be competent to convert those men to let me have as much right in this Government as they had, when, unfortunately, the great majority of them could not understand a word that I said.

At the quarter sessions, in January last, for the precinct of St. Thomas in the East, and St. David, which contains an apprentice population of about thirty thousand, there was only one apprentice tried.

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The spacious interior, represented in our view, is one of the most agreeable places in the whole precinct of these gardens, being well aired and lighted, very nicely paved, and tastefully decorated in pale color, with some fine tropical plants in tubs on the floor, or in the windows, and in baskets hanging from the roof.

And they gave orders to put this writing on brass tablets and to set them up within the precinct of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place, and also to put the copies of it in the treasury in order that Simon and his sons might have them.

The knight was interred within the precinct of the Abbey Church of Gloucester; his tomb and effigy were in a niche at an angle of the cloisters.

The chiefest of the first precinct was Lübeck, where the archives of their ancient records and their prime chancery is still, and this town is within that verge; Cullen is chief of the second precinct, Brunswick of the third, and Dantzic of the fourth.

The chiefest of the first precinct was Lübeck, where the archives of their ancient records and their prime chancery is still, and this town is within that verge; Cullen is chief of the second precinct, Brunswick of the third, and Dantzic of the fourth.

505 examples of  precinct  in sentences