hinterlands

• "For I am just now emerging from the hinterlands, where there is nothing interesting." —  The Dastard
• In a small, isolated camp off in the hinterlands, the arrangement probably would have worked; with no place to go, no way to get there, and nothing to distract them from the job at hand, they would necessarily have developed, out of their common interest in Paleozoic biota, a superficial but sustainable, and mutually sustaining, relationship long on technical talk and devoid of intimacy. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
• In the dark woods of the Skaldic hinterlands, the ravens and wolves were his friends, but the tribesmen gave him no heed, brandishing their terrible axes and calling upon their gods, who have a taste for blood and iron. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• Fleeing into the hinterlands or diving into some thieves' den would hardly buy enough time. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
• Let's hope the Reps have the guts to stand firm, ignore the polls and get communication out to the hinterlands (quickly) to explain to the constituencies exactly why this legislation is a pail of dung. —  The American Spectator

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