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Out-of-town

adjective

Happening in or being of another town or city. "An out-of-town school"

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"Out-of-town" Quotes from Famous Books

... marriage to the minister Lord North, and lucky in the possession of an opulent office—that of receiver-general of the excise. He, with George Selwyn and Dick Edgecumbe, who met at Strawberry Hill at certain seasons, formed what Walpole termed his out-of-town party. Life seems to have glided smoothly with him, for he lived till 1785, dying at the ripe ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various

... Green River's own—a local, almost a family, affair. No out-of-town celebrities were to be imported this time, to be listened to with awe and then wined and dined by the Colonel safe from the curious eyes of the town. This time old Joe Grant was to preside, as he had done as a matter of course on all such occasions when he was the acknowledged head of the ...

— The Wishing Moon • Louise Elizabeth Dutton

... first-night house at Rochester had given the piece a cold reception, which had put the finishing touches to the depression of the company in spite of the fact that the Rochester critics, like those of Baltimore, had written kindly of the play. One of the maxims of the theatre is that "out-of-town notices don't count," and the company had refused ...

— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

Words linked to "Out-of-town" : distant