"Outskirt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be diplomatic. You travel to the farthest outskirt in order to gather your utmost forces for ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler
... expected to find the savages arrayed in force to defend their roof-trees, but when we entered the place cautiously, and crept to the first dwelling in the outskirt, it was empty. So with the second, third, fourth,—until we overran the whole settlement and found it utterly deserted;—its furniture, stock, implements, and even doors carried off by the deliberate fugitives. The guardian ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... a collision between the American sentiment for local and individual liberty and self-government, and the absolutist spiritual government of Rome. The Catholics of New York, including those of the Spanish and French legations, had built a church in Barclay Street, then on the northern outskirt of the city; and they had the very natural and just feeling that they had a right to do what they would with their own and with the building erected at their charges. They proceeded accordingly to put in charge of it ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon |
