There are only 20 people left in that tiny outport, which is not accessible by road, so I guess this was inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Another mortally wounded town] Reference
The northern outports grew in importance ( "outport" is used for all fishing ports except St. John's). From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
There is sickness at a little outport, diphtheria, I hear, and they want a man at once. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
Talk to Newfoundlanders in what is left of the outport communities if you think this can't happen. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Rigney: The BP Oil Spill: Spilt Milk] Reference
Their native wit, their outport culture, their kindliness, and their capacity to stick it out were all they had. From Wordnik.com. [From Bonavista to Vancouver Island] Reference
Charles F. Bailey, a former fisherman and boat skipper and representative of the outport Trinity South constituency was one of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Newfoundland Nationalist orthodoxy] Reference
SULLIVAN: He's up on the truss just a little bit and outport as you can see to port, in order to give him an angle of view to help the extra eyeballs watching this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2005] Reference
I definitely didn't visit "outport Nfld" - one needs a boat for that, and it's largely depopulated now, from what I gather - but all over Nfld, everyone is "love", "m'dear", "dearie". From Wordnik.com. [language thoughts] Reference
The 611 not only gives me the option of storing up to 25 hours of HD programming on its hard drive, but there's an output on the back that allows me to outport a downcoverted signal to our DVD recorder. From Wordnik.com. [IF.... and NIGHTMARE USA... and My Dish Problem Resolved] Reference
He insisted it truly was a traditional Newfoundland outport endeavour. From Wordnik.com. [The Southern Gazette: News] Reference
He thinks those jobs could help keep the remaining outport communities alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulf News: News] Reference
French was born in the small Newfoundland outport of Coley's Point on Jan. 18, 1939. From Wordnik.com. [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference
He adds comments on the outport ships then in Virginia and the shipping charges in effect. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry, February 13, 1721] Reference
But an outport -- Cronstadt, Cavite, what it really meant, what they were, had escaped her. From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
She was sorry now that she hadn't known what an outport was, and determined to ask him to-morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
Safe & to a good Markett, We have hopes the Spanish and the French Trade being both open & considering the outport. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Tucker, July 13, 1720] Reference
Vera Sheppard, like many of the hostel residents, travelled from her outport home on the railway to reach St. John's. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgian: News]
Goosney grew up in Woody Point and Larkin in Cook's Harbour, two small outport communities on the Northern Peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
The Avalon was noted for its outport villages, archeological sites, friendly people and significant tourism potential. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Mr. Goosney grew up in Woody Point and Larkin in Cook's Harbour, two small outport communities on the Northern Peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
I stayed in an outport this spring with someone not yet 60 who grew up there carrying buckets of water home from the town well. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
He was well aware of the strong outport aversion to conscription, but he faced strong pressure within cabinet to support the measure. From Wordnik.com. [The Packet: News] Reference
A man cannot practice medicine out of a Newfoundland outport harbor for thirty-seven years and not know what it means to stomach a physical exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
"An outport," she said slowly, "is a-- a part of a ship," that much seemed safe -- "I expect it's the place where they throw things like potato peels through.". From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
Which leads us back to Cupids, N.L., the outport village that claims to be the oldest British settlement in Canada, where Charles and Camilla will visit Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference
In the beginning there were two companies of the Virginia adventurers, the one having its headquarters in London and the other in the western outport of Plymouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624] Reference
Hamburg has so constantly deepened the Elbe passage that its outport of Cuxhaven has had little chance to rise, and serves only as an emergency harbor; while on the. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Precisely as a country doctor might petulantly regard a stretch of hub-deep crossroad, Doctor Rolfe, the outport physician, complained of the passage of Tickle-my-Ribs. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
When our sober outport people went to St. John's, as they must every year for supplies, they had only the uncomfortable schooner or the street in which to pass the time. From Wordnik.com. [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference
I grew up partly in one such outport, where my grandfather still lives, and Clark's fondness for these remote fishing villages is obvious, yet never patronizing or sentimental. From Wordnik.com. [A Life In Books] Reference
There are outport ships in Virginia taking advantage of the larger merchants holding back their ships from an early voyage, and some colonists are rushing to obtain good freight rates. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, February 13, 1721] Reference
When I traveled the outports in my youth, 'says he,' I sold liquor for green paint an 'slep' with the constable; an 'the socks o' the outport fishermen, Tumm, 'says he,' holds many a half-dollar I coined in my. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
An ', Lord! how the outport crews would grin t' see un trickle little drops o 'liquor into his belly -- t' watch un shift in his chair at the Anchor an 'Chain, an' t 'hear un grunt an' sigh when the dram was down. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
"With all these tourism advertisements that the government have been releasing on television, they all focus on outport Newfoundland. From Wordnik.com. [The Nor'wester: News] Reference
"outport" communities were never wealthy. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
"Laurel," he demanded, "what is an outport?". From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
"Laurel," he added, "what is the outport of St. Petersburg?". From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
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