Mrs. Dennison had seen her passing through the outskirt of the woods, or she would never have ventured to call for her so loudly.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
Kipling, alluding to the "bleeding raw" appearance of some of our outskirt settlements, says, "Americans don't mix much with their landscape as yet."
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Like the houses of many legal men, it lay in a dangerous and thinly populated outskirt of the town, and was easily accessible to robbery.
"Paul Clifford, Volume 6."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton