10 Metaphors for frontiers

The Frontier has been my wife, my children, my home, my one long and lasting passion.

In Kentucky alone this frontier was already seventy miles in length.

The disposition of such of the Southern tribes as had also heretofore annoyed our frontier is another prospect in our situation so important to the interest and happiness of the United States that it is much to be lamented that any clouds should be thrown over it, more especially by excesses on the part of our own citizens.

The purpose of the northern campaigns was not, of course, merely to defend private interests of court cliques: the northern frontier was the weak spot of the southern empire, for its plains could easily be overrun.

On the south and south-west its frontiers were Cappadocia and Galatia.

My next stage was to Tallahassee by railroad, through a desolate-looking country, whose soil was sand, and whose vegetation looked stunted, presenting little to cheer the senses, or call forth remark; in fact, everything around told of a country whose centre is flourishing, but whose frontiers are a wilderness.

It is manifest that every frontier that gives upon the Hohenzollerns must henceforth be entrenched line behind line, and held permanently by a garrison ready for any treachery, and it becomes of primary importance that the Franco-Belgian line should be as short and strong as possible.

What hope is there of peace if your frontier is the rim of an unknown forest?

But the Florida frontier was not a climate in which our Southern bachelors could have acquired the knowledge available when the thermometer was twenty-five degrees below zeroa point at which brandy congealed in the sideboard.

The frontier, in spite of the outward uniformity of means and manners, is preeminently the place of sharp contrasts.

10 Metaphors for  frontiers