in foreign parts
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The daring exploits of the fearless but charming Englishman in foreign parts was both a staple of popular fiction and also the recreational side of late-Victorian imperialism.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015
“What is it,” a despairing Joseph Roth wrote in The Wandering Jews, “that allows European states to go spreading civilisation and ethics in foreign parts but not at home?”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2015
He was figurative—the straight link with home, the radio voice that for years had filled the living room and that in foreign parts called up its image.
From Time ● Nov. 6, 2014
Today the Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times.
From Time Magazine Archive
We know that he felt these things, and so has many a traveler in foreign parts who did not know what he was going to find.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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