For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Thomas Gray
As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich. Lewis H. Lapham
What was time, after all, except a lead-footed march from the precincts of youth into the country of the grave? Time was the force that crumbled granite, devoured memory, and seduced infants into senility-as implacable as a hanging judge and as poetic as a tank. Robert Charles Wilson
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. Carrie Chapman Catt
A compulsive dissenter, he had all along remained outside the precincts of governmental power – a fact that has made him an enigma. Chandra Shekhar
Affluent enviros are all for wind farms, until one is proposed that might mar the serenity of a sail from the crew-necked precincts near Nantucket Sound. Then it's clean energy for thee, not for me. Charles Krauthammer