Examples of precinct

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Clearly the precincts of the garden and the temple are peopled exclusively with personification figures or with deities.
Elsewhere, it seems certain that the canonial precincts came into being fairly rapidly.
What is more, using precincts to capture racial environment raises a problem that is likely to confound the hypothesized group conflict relationship.
In the precincts of philosophical study, though, we learn that it is unclear as to what sum of atoms we are picking out.
The proximity of ancient and recent ruins is indicative of a continuing process of desertification within the precincts of the city.
There is the wrath-ofheaven (or points south) approach, there is the silent treatment; in some precincts, there is even full disclosure.
Dickens presents a pseudo-aristocratic register in the noun phrases "familiar denomination," "antlered herd" and "shady precincts," with their connotations of hunting and hereditary lineage.
Most communal business was transacted formally or informally within the precincts of the synagogue around which communal affairs revolved.
They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts.
Especially bad was the situation of the simple day-labourer who worked in the vineyards and fields in the precincts of the city.
The poet's globalizing reverie at the banks of the river transforms the world, in his imagination, into the precincts of a sacred space.
The passage indicates a clear connection between the currency issue plan and construction plans for the imperial palace precincts.
As well as reducing emissions, it is also important to prevent odours occurring either within station buildings or around the station precincts.
She enjoys a separate abode in temple precincts, and has a large number of rituals and ceremonies connected to her.
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