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Exploits is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
In central Newfoundland on Bay of Exploits, it lies between the Trans-Canada Highway in the south and Notre Dame Bay in the north. Most of the population lives in the southern centres of Botwood and Bishop's Falls.
To the north, Exploits includes communities in Notre Dame Bay such as Cottrell's Cove, but most of the population lives in southern centres such as Botwood and Bishop's Falls. Communities include: Bishop's Falls, Bishop's Falls South, Botwood, Charles Brook, Cottrell's Cove, Fortune Harbour, Glover’s Harbour, Leading Tickles West, Moore's Cove, Northern Arm, Peterview, Phillip's Head, Pleasantview, Point Leamington, Point of Bay, Ritter's Arm and Wooddale.
The district was formerly represented by Liberal Premier Roger Grimes.
Usage examples of "exploits".
Caesar in describing his own exploits, in his dedicatory letter to the Duchess of Richmond, must be taken as an excess of modesty.
After his return from Virginia he and his exploits were the subject of many a stage play and spectacle, but whether his vanity was more flattered by this mark of notoriety than his piety was offended we do not know.
Captain Smith was that man, and if we find him glorying in his exploits, and repeating upon single big Indians the personal prowess that distinguished him in Transylvania and in the mythical Nalbrits, we have only to transfer our sympathy from the Turks to the Sasquesahanocks if the sense of his heroism becomes oppressive.
In regard to women, as to his own exploits, seen in the light of memory, Smith possessed a creative imagination.
This reference to the Earl of Ployer, who was kind to Smith in his youth, is only an instance of the care with which he edited these narratives of his own exploits, which were nominally written by his companions.
He is ever turning back, in whatever he writes, to rehearse his exploits and to defend his motives.
Virginia, Smith invariably reproduces his own exploits, until we can imagine every person in London, who could read, was sick of the story.
XVII WRITINGS-LATER YEARS If Smith had not been an author, his exploits would have occupied a small space in the literature of his times.
He was an old officer who had achieved notable exploits against the English in the West Indies, but who was now to be put to a test far more severe.
When he had despatched the three war-parties, whose hardy but murderous exploits were to bring this double storm upon him, he had an interval of leisure, of which he made a characteristic use.
One of their most notorious exploits was the capture of two French vessels and a French fort at Chedabucto by a pirate, manned in part, it is said, from Massachusetts.
By parading the number of slain, without mentioning that most of them were women and children, and by counting as forts mere private houses surrounded with palisades, Charlevoix and later writers have given the air of gallant exploits to acts which deserve a very different name.
Paul only hoped that news of their exploits in Phol-venx and Sharalidor had not traveled ahead of them.
The petty Indian capitalist exploits the town worker with the utmost ruthlessness, the peasant lives from birth to death in the grip of the money-lender.
The same part of the book describes his exploits in the Civil War, which were distinctly inglorious.