My father was a priest of Vishun, of a high rank; and as his functions required him to live within the precincts of the Pagoda, he was liberally maintained out of its ample revenues.

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.

He did not even spare the offerings to Hercules, consecrated in Gades, and he detached special precincts from some towns and laid an added tribute upon others.

She had gone through the woods and round the park, which was not large, and now she could not leave these beloved precincts without going to look at the house.

And in these Territories, too, as well as wherever else she has exercised the suffrage, she has elevated man to her own level, and has made the voting precinct as respectable and decorous as the lecture-room or the assemblies of the devout.

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....

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.

The nunnery is now, I believe, held in lease by the city of Oxford, which has converted its precincts into a barnyard.

So Stella invaded the Abbey-Monohan precincts by herself and enjoyed itfor she met a houseful of young people from the coast, and in that light-hearted company she forgot for the time being that she was married and the responsible mistress of a house.

Until a year or two ago, the precincts around Moulay Idriss and El Kairouiyin were horm, that is, cut off from the unbeliever.

As the doors unbolted and swung back, officers peremptorily demanded quarters for their troops, receiving with contempt the protests of Heingartner that they were violating precincts under protection of the American flag.

Dream not of entering these sacred precincts with your hands stained with blood.

Has the efflorescence of thy youth been "sicklied o'er" by the wasting turmoil of the town?leave its precincts for one month of the fervid summer, and forget thy cares and toils in the embowered Isle of Wight.