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Example sentences for "outland"

Lexicographically close words:
outhouses; outing; outings; outjump; outjutting; outlander; outlanders; outlandish; outlands; outlast
  1. Thus these outland people held their festival, and Hilary marvelled to see the many fires, for he had not known that the land held so many folk.

  2. Then were all the ashes of the fire swept together and cast into the fleeting river, which bore them through lands remote into the utmost sea that hath no outland limit save the blue sky and the low light of the shifting stars.

  3. Ye see before you a poor gentleman of fortune, whom poverty and a roving spirit have driven to outland bits o' the earth to ply his lawful trade of sea-captain.

  4. My hardest task was to establish some method of sending news to the outland dwellers.

  5. I scanned every outland face, wondering if I should meet it again in the New World.

  6. Then I told him what I had learned in the Carolinas and at the outland farms.

  7. The men who look grave just now are not those who live snugly in coast manors, but the outland folk who have to keep their doors with their own hands.

  8. He lies under sentence of death by Virginian law; but, believe me, he is an honest soul and a good patriot, and he is the one man born to lead these outland troops.

  9. He remembered the anxious, busy days when the machinery of outland justice creaked rustily under his efforts to persuade it into full and perfect motion.

  10. The winter of Nature's despair driven forth beyond the borders to the outland drear of eternal northern ice.

  11. But one thing I would impress upon you, sir secretary: do not practise these outland peculiarities before my brothers.

  12. And these speak an outland speech, clacking in their throats, hissing their s's, and laughing 'Ho!

  13. Revolting sight as that would have been to me, witnessed in the world, here, in this dark wood, in this outland presence, it was nothing but curious.

  14. She alone of all the little community avoided the King household, and scowled whensoever she happened to cross the path of this gentle outland girl.

  15. Through these Picts and their kindred we shall hear the talk of the outland men.

  16. Divers outland kings, and many paynim and Saracens, were mixed with the Christian folk, for all these people owned fealty to Rome, and were in the service of the emperor.

  17. They would have no alien for their lord, nor suffer a stranger to meddle in their business, lest he should deem them an ancient and feeble people, and give to outland folk what was due to the dwellers in the realm.

  18. Never a man of these outland knights, so only he was worthy of Arthur's bounty, but the king granted him such gifts as he might brag of in his own realm.

  19. They owned as lords Hengist and Horsa, two brethren of mighty stature, and of outland speech.

  20. The Britons were sorely troubled at this matter, and prayed the king not to put such affiance in the outland folk, for they wrought much mischief.

  21. While we raced away to take thrall the Wolf Duke, the king put you in the care of Kosru, that outland warlock.

  22. The land were well rid of such an outland wooer!

  23. Lay it to some chance band of outland thieves, lord king.

  24. For a little, while the others stood staring, some flushed and indignant, others pale with anxiety for their outland friend, Karl gazed down upon the Northman, his broad chest slowly heaving beneath his folded arms.

  25. He had then only to add the rumor that the king's purpose in compelling the presence of the daughter of Himiltrude was to betroth her to some outland king.

  26. We must again warn Rudulf to keep his outland dame within our law.

  27. They brought weapons; they want outland slaves, of the sort I took to sell in the Big Valley country," he whispered.

  28. Never before or afterward in the lives of the actors in this outland drama were the mountains that divided the desert to know such a drive as that.

  29. Breathless minutes of pulsing excitement for the woman who knew only monotony and the drudgery of an outland life.

  30. He swung himself into the saddle and rode away,--away toward his outland home under the starlit roof of the plains.

  31. Did they not conspire with the Ninebow Barbarians whom I crushed in the great battle, and do they not now threaten us in the name of their outland god?

  32. Of the City King and the Outland King Chapter L.

  33. Of the Outland foes none thought, save it were the King and one or two of his councillors; for all men trusted in Sir Godrick that he would look to the safe-guarding of the city.

  34. Wondrous also was the market wherein they did their chaffer, and the chapmen in their fine coats of strange fashion to him and their outland faces, and the carts and wains of the country folk and their big sleek horses.

  35. Of the City King and the Outland King Now then was great feast and glee in the City of the Sundering Flood.

  36. Nor did they gainsay any one condition on which the Small Crafts had put forward, but added only this one thing, that the host of Longshaw should join with them in defending the City against the Outland men.

  37. It is the custom of the outland places for acquaintances to stop for a bit of friendly conversation when they meet, since meetings are so far between.

  38. Now it befell--as oft it must when outland men win fame and power beyond those of the land--that many folks envied Olaf the great love he had of the king, and of the queen no less.

  39. I am an outland man here," he answered; "and I am named Ole the Esthonian.

  40. It was declared that an hour must be found for him to feel an edge of a seax, for he was not a Saxon and there should be no outland men like him and Ben Ezra upon a ship from the Northland.

  41. Many were said to be the outland coins in his leather bag in his room at the southerly end of the house.

  42. There has been no such Vice in Outland for many a long year, as he would be!

  43. I knew, by some mysterious mental light, that a great change was taking place in my sweet little friend (for such I loved to think her) and that she was passing from the condition of a mere Outland Sprite into the true Fairy-nature.

  44. He wanted to make everybody in Outland twice as rich as he was before--just to make the new Government popular.

  45. I want to have the big stretch of outland that begins opposite our place and then runs towards the west, all diked in and a well-drained koog made out of it.

  46. The outland here belonged to the community, its members each holding a number of shares according to the size of their property in the parish or by having legally acquired them in some other way.

  47. It is said that the outland men are smaller in the bones.

  48. I had not so much cared to see the outland folk, but I had hungered for a look at more of England.

  49. Moreover, I shall be likely to find a long tramp across the hills before me presently, and I have no mind to be set on by my own people as a wandering Dane, for the sake of wearing outland arms to please myself.

  50. Ho, men," he shouted, "will you own an outland lord?

  51. I have wandered far and wide and served many outland kings, while Gunnar sat at home.

  52. There are many costly gifts from outland kings, good weapons by the chestful, and other priceless chattels.

  53. Young Pete braced his feet and clung to the rope, admonishing the horse with outland eloquence.

  54. Pete, who had known many outland camp-fires, made himself at home, sitting cross-legged and affecting a mature indifference.

  55. He wanted to make everybody in Outland twice as rich as he was before just to make the new Government popular.

  56. But to get the full smack of it ye must yourselves be English bowmen, and be far off upon an outland soil.

  57. Lorson Harris was a type common enough in outland places, where money is easy and conscience does not exist.

  58. So, with an unruffled calm, she set about the daily "chores" that were hers, and added to them all those labours which were necessary that this outland home should lack nothing in its welcome to her men.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.