"City limits" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from basement to roof,—all concrete, brick, stone, metal, and plaster; when the holes for pipes of all sorts are scaled as they enter the home; when the kitchen is eliminated by 90 per cent. and replaced by the food laboratories; when no animal but man is allowed within city limits—and he is taught to keep clean; we can then compare, for antiseptic cleanliness with a fine hospital—and have few ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... and commerce, was sharply separated from the self-sufficient countryside. The city, by its very nature, could not be self-sufficient. Food, building supplies and raw materials were not produced inside the city limits, but must be produced in the hinterland from which they were transported to the cities. City dwellers devised means of paying for the production, transportation and marketing of these necessary imports. The countryside can and does exist independently of the city because ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing
... a house in Shubarton Place that would not seem quite like taking old Uncle Titus's money and rushing away with it as far as city limits would allow; and Laura really did wish to have the comfort of her sister's society, in a cozy way, of mornings, up in her room; that was her chief idea about it. There were a good many times and things in which she scarcely expected much companionship ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... and the larger congregations should make it a point to maintain institutions for consumptives, beyond the city limits if possible, a healthy location in ...
— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum |
