backwater

"Which may indeed be called 'a backwater of life,' without disrespect to its natives, who possess to this day a salty individuality of their own."

- A priest-infested backwater!

- In Wetzlar, that godforsaken backwater?

-It's a backwater place. -I don't really know.

300 years ago, you helped build a backwater penal colony into something.

"Which may indeed be called 'a backwater of life,' without disrespect to its natives, who possess to this day a salty individuality of their own."

- A priest-infested backwater!

- In Wetzlar, that godforsaken backwater?

-It's a backwater place. -I don't really know.

300 years ago, you helped build a backwater penal colony into something.

'Far out, in the uncharted backwaters at the unfashionable end 'of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy, 'lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Captains before me designed the San Pablo for a special job in the backwaters of China.

Five men, charred by two years of fighting blown by the wind from the big towns and backwaters of our huge country to a city spread along the banks of a great river.

From here, we travel unexplored backwaters in search of the Mist People, the Shirishama.

From the backwaters of blissful ignorance across vast oceans of academic blather until at last you've arrived here, on the shores of my little kingdom.