That goes outside that dim borderland of conscience where honesty and dishonesty dissemble.

I knew that it was no more than a trench of refuge against the storm of battle, in which he was resting until that hour shall sound when we shall all be reunited beyond the shadowy borderland of Death.

Not far away and nearer Church Knowle is Creech Barrow, a cone-shaped hill commanding a most extensive and beautiful view, especially north-westwards over the heathy flats of the Frome valley to the distant Dorset-Somerset borderlands.

This is not itself pastoral, but it belongs to that idyllic borderland which we previously noticed in dealing with Italian verse.

Nantes had been robbed from Britanny, Tours had been wrested from Blois, the southern borderland from Poitou.

The story is really a romance, and the character of the heroine has in it an element of mystery; yet the materials are gathered from every-day New-England life, and that weird borderland between science and speculation where psychology and physiology exercise mixed jurisdiction, and which rims New England as it does all other lands.