outport

How To Use outport In A Sentence

• The resettlement of Newfoundland's rural outports is a familiar, if troubling, scene for many Newfoundlanders.
• It's an east island accent, that Protestant strain you find in certain outports.
• The chapter on ports scarcely mentions the slave trade, much less their work on the English outports.
• And the wonderful work she was doing in her outport district would probably come to an end.
• Its stranglehold on overseas trade, and therefore on most of the early banking and financial activity, was slow to ease; in consequence much of the trade from most of the outports had to be directed via London.
• As much as it sounds like the name of an outport fishing village somewhere in Newfoundland, it is not an actual place but rather a state of being.
• His plot kicks in when, by a twist of fate and some benevolent blackmail, a young doctor is forced to leave Montreal and spend a mouth on the windswept outport.
• Case studies of the shipping and trade of major outports like Liverpool and Hull have contributed valuable evidence to the on-going debate about the origins and character of the industrial revolution.
• Antwerp also secured the dominance of London - the nearest estuarial port - over the other English ports, which became known by the end of the century simply as the outports.