border-land

The warlike border-land — to render the habits of the tribes who inhabited them before the union of England and Scotland familiar to most of your readers.

Death of the Laird's Jock 2008

The warlike border-land — to render the habits of the tribes who inhabited them before the union of England and Scotland familiar to most of your readers.

Death of the Laird's Jock 2008

Argives at first demanded that the old quarrel about the border-land of Cynuria, a district which contains the cities of

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

One thing is clear: Nature has taken care that he shall never go far astray with perfect comfort and satisfaction to himself; he will never get beyond that border-land of sin, where he will be perpetually harassed by assaults from the other side of the boundary.

Adam Bede 2004

I caught myself measuring the doses with my eye, and calculating how many of them would be enough to take a living creature over the border-land between sleep and death.

Armadale 2003

At times he was on the border-land of imbecility; his mind looked into a cloudy chaos, a shapeless whirl of nothings.

New Grub Street 2003

Born in a border-land, along with their like-minded friends, they had travelled through so many kingdoms; some of those friends had returned (to their own land), and some had (died), proving the impermanence and uncertainty of life; and to-day they saw the place where Buddha had lived now unoccupied by him.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

Such, or something very similar, has been the observation made to me lately, whilst I have been from home, by members of some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

"Lord Garan, tell me: How did you leave the border-land?"

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

The land of Goshen appears as the eastern border-land of Egypt; for on this side Jacob's family entered, see ver.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996