Adjective : We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.    From Dictionary.com. 

I will enquire what outward-bound vessels there are.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

We plunged into a seething mass of outward-bound humanity at.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

Leaders in Canada's outward-bound, forward-looking business climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Are No Limits—PCS and a New Competitive Advantage] Reference

Bardsey offers outward-bound autumn birds a stopover before the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Deal, once boarded an outward-bound Dutch East-Indiaman in the Downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Salem on an outward-bound voyage, bearing on her decks Messrs. Judson and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission] Reference

For the more active traveler, Ubud also has a choice of outward-bound pursuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ubud Bali] Reference

But the route which most tries a ship's prowess is the outward-bound voyage to California.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference

In the case of outward-bound ships, the disposition of the two crews was of course reversed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

There was a man standing at the end of the outward-bound moving platform with his back to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puppet on a Chain]

At the same time an embargo was laid by royal authority on all outward-bound vessels laden with corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

On this pier were gathered six persons, awaiting the arrival from Quebec of the outward-bound steamer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference

The only effective option is a total cordon sanitaire on all outward-bound movements from North Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

Apart from this, however, suction can occur also as a result of the outward-bound increase of the strength of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

'I have come here to look after outward-bound boats,' the skipper answered, sharply, 'and I can't bother about you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

As they rounded Catten on the outward-bound orbit, Kris once again found the beauty of the planet almost breath-stopping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedoms Challenge]

I'd moved far enough now to look up the outward-bound moving platform, the one that led to the terminal floor where I stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puppet on a Chain]

All at once a shriek or yell of "Hard aport!" and a great iron outward-bound steamer from Hong-Kong bursts into the unwieldy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference

Twice, during this time, he had made the attempt to board as stowaway an outward-bound steamship and sailing vessel for a South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

The first batch of outward-bound UK passenger lists will be available at findmypast.com on Wednesday, covering the years 1890-1900.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

It is just a century since two vessels, the one homeward and the other outward-bound, were wrecked almost at the same moment near here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Ships that left Catten outward-bound were neither stopped nor searched by the patrols, though their departures were noted on the duty sheets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedoms Challenge]

The trouble was that such a ship did not come into port, though more than one freighter or outward-bound transport finned down as the days passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dread Companion]

The men have been sent back to Bristol, with recommendations from their master which have already got them employment on board an outward-bound ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

Another figure in the scene is the outward-bound sailor, in quest of a protection; or the recently arrived one, pale and feeble, seeking a passport to the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

York, and shipped on one of the outward-bound ocean vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys in the Jungle Or, Stirring Adventures in Africa] Reference

A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

He was there to see the outward-bound clipper, and greet her on her return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

It was a strange crew for the forecastle of an outward-bound, deep-water American ship.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

The latest bugbear relates to reports of a 'flood' of Chinese outward-bound investments to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

I have not been outward-bound often enough to know much of the regret of being homeward-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

A clang of bells and the hooting of an outward-bound liner came up from the city and the port.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

It can train in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, at outward-bound courses in Derbyshire or flying schools in Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

Every outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life on the Mississippi] Reference

And meantime the outward-bound ships passed, running through our humiliated ranks under all the canvas they could show.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference

From two days to a week saw the end of their money and saw them being carted by the boarding-house masters on board outward-bound ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference