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City limits   /sˈɪti lˈɪməts/   Listen
City limits

noun
1.
The limits of the area occupied by a city or town.  Synonym: city limit.






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"City limits" Quotes from Famous Books



... house for facts regarding school hygiene taught and practiced in all schools within city limits. ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... but that we are proud ourselves of this achievement within our city limits; it cannot fail to increase the fame our beloved Boston as a town of masters in thought and art. Honor to the firm of L. Prang ...
— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 3, December, 1884 • Various

... thoughtlessly enough; but the thing reminded me that it was unlawful to shoot within the city limits, and I sent the boy up to the station to tell the captain to never mind if he heard shooting around: I was going out for a dog. With that I ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... sighted the Aleutian Islands, seeing and feeling nothing on the way which could suggest a warm soil and green fields, hence our surprise was great to find the jinricksha men with bare feet and legs naked to the thighs, and greater still when we found, before we were outside the city limits, that the electric tram was running between fields and gardens green with wheat, barley, onions, carrots, cabbage and other vegetables. We were rushing through the Orient with everything outside the car so strange and different from ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King

... a big reward for the pirates, dead or alive. And there hasn't been a single case of piracy inside the city limits ...
— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper


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