Citations:outland


 * 1905, Edward Strachen Morgan (translator), Chronicles of the city of Perugia 1492-1503 (original by Francesco Matarazzo), page 198:
 * But his plan came to naught, and the outland Duke was not even strong enough to bring back Piero dei Medici from his exile into Florence.

living in a foreign country

 * 1) Living abroad, living in a foreign land.
 * 2) * 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:
 * Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
 * 1) * 1936, December 7, LIFE, page 28:
 * The little figures, he tells them, represent, according to color, 200 to 50,000 outland Germans each.


 * 1) * 1949, The Reader's Digest, volume 54, page 101:
 * When the "outland Danes," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, [...]


 * 1) * 1964, James E. Edmonds, As Lincoln Wanted It, page 125:
 * The goodwill of leading Malays and outland Chinese had been won for the West, for Britain and the Commonwealth.
 * 1) * 1980, New Society, volume 51, page 546:
 * To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese," and can travel freely to the mother country.


 * 1) * 2001 June 12, "Mike Echo Mike" (username), "Why do I fly !!!", in, Usenet:
 * And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe [...]

provincial? or "returning from abroad"?

 * 1947, George Sessions Perry, Cities of America, page 15:
 * New York might be compared to a broad lake, through a part of which runs a current, a stream of outland Americans, some en route to and from Europe, more coming to market and pausing to have a good, if slightly bewildering, time.
 * 1962, Edgar Snow, The other side of the river, Red China today, page 586:
 * Szechuan has long had a reputation for xenophobia, even toward outland Chinese, but I sensed indifference rather more than hostility.

from and maintaining residence in a foreign country

 * 1876, Henry Montague Hozier, The Invasions of England: a history of the past, volume 1, page 61:
 * Towards the end of Alfred's reign, his navy, designed on new principles, and largely manned by Frisian sailors, seems to have been able to keep the outland Danes at bay, and in 897 the crews of two captured Danish vessels were hanged at Winchester. In the early years of the reign of King Edward, who was the king og all England and Over-lord of Britain, the inland Danes submitted to him, [...]