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  • It is a commonplace that a Borderer should be a more hot partisan of his own country against the other from which but a line divides him in fact, and scarcely so much in race -- than the calmer inhabitant of the midland country who knows no such press of constant antagonism; and Jeanne is another example of this well known fact.

    Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

  • a Borderer should be a more hot partisan of his own country against the other from which but a line divides him in fact, and scarcely so much in race -- than the calmer inhabitant of the midland country who knows no such press of constant antagonism; and Jeanne is another example of this well known fact.

    Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

  • Writing as 'Borderer', Henry Penfold stated: "Scores of the farmers and their wives in East Cumberland were clothed from the products of the old-fashioned mill at Hardbank which was noted for turning out real hard-wearing stuff".

    Whitehaven News headlines 2009

  • There are green shoots of recovery among the thistles, as Scotland showed at Twickenham a week earlier, and the slightly built, modest Borderer Paterson has played a big part in the revival after the debacle against Wales last month.

    Scotland 21-8 Italy | Six Nations match report 2011

  • He was a Borderer through and through and repeatedly declined BBC offers to move south to present and commentate on other sports.

    Bill McLaren 1923-2010 2010

  • He was a Borderer through and through and repeatedly declined BBC offers to move south to present and commentate on other sports.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • He was a Borderer through and through and repeatedly declined BBC offers to move south to present and commentate on other sports.

    Bill McLaren 1923-2010 2010

  • He was a Borderer through and through and repeatedly declined BBC offers to move south to present and commentate on other sports.

    Bill McLaren 1923-2010 2010

  • Turning his face to the wall, the Borderer lay in stern expectation of approaching death, which the bishop left him to contemplate.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • “I cannot say, my lord,” replied the jealous Borderer.

    The Talisman 2008

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