out-o''-the-way

Updated: June 29, 2025

The romance of unexpected meetings with foreign `fair ones' in out-o''-the-way circumstances, with broken bones, perhaps, or gunshot wounds, to lend pathos to the affair, and necessitate nursing, which may lead to love-making, all that is equally possible to the Alpine climber and the chamois-hunter, to the traveller almost anywhere, who chooses to indulge in reckless sport, regardless of his neck.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - In the Track of the Troops