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Definition of Back of beyond
1. Noun. A very remote and inaccessible place. "You'd have to go to the back of beyond to find one of those"
Definition of Back of beyond
1. Noun. (chiefly British idiomatic) A very remote place. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Back Of Beyond
Literary usage of Back of beyond
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart (1913)
"CHAPTER II "THE back of beyond" OF certain remote parts of Erin, Jane Barlow
says: "In ... A Traveler to the Back of Beyond may consider himself rather ..."
2. The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of the "Ingoldsby Legends". by Charles George Harper (1906)
"CHAPTER XII THE back of beyond : THE HINTERLAND OF FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE It is a
remarkable stretch of country to which one comes at last; a tumbled area of ..."
3. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1902)
""AT THE back of beyond" MISS JANE BARLOW'S sketches of Irish life need neither
introduction nor praise: her "Irish Idylls" and " Creel of Irish Stories" ..."
4. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"Appleton. 12°, $1.25. A novel which deals with the vigorous and quaint life of
Indiana about seventy years ago. BARLOW, JANE. At the back of beyond. Dodd. ..."
5. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"At the back of beyond. Dodd. M. 12°, $i 50. Irish character sketches. According to
the author if you inquire for a person's address in Ireland you are apt ..."
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