Each empire has been, as it were, but an experiment; and beyond the border line of seas and deserts which ringed each boastful conqueror, there were always other races developing along slower, and it may be surer, lines.

It is better for me to go away to my little border-land, and help the strangers who do not know the way.

The task of continuing this border warfare, which was allotted to the new commander-in-chief of Africa, was not in itself of such importance as to prevent the Carthaginian government, which was allowed to do as it liked in its own immediate sphere, from tacitly conniving at the decrees passed in reference to the matter by the popular assembly; and the Romans did not perhaps recognize its significance at all.

"Strange," said the monks with a sigh, "that men of a border country should be able to come here in search of our Law!"

Nevertheless the border wars still continued, and the plebeians suffered much.

All the malcontents looked towards the North for deliverance, and made haste to rally, if possible, to the side of the Syrian border states.

This ornamental hardy perennial makes a good border plant, growing in any loamy soil, and producing its blue flowers in June and July.

Russ Farrell, border patrolman.

" The warden of the border-town of I requested an interview with Confucius, and said, "When great men have come here, I have never yet failed to obtain a sight of them."

Couldn't say fairer than that, could I?" The rugged hunter looked at the big malformed border ruffian with repulsion.

Some minor reinforcements also kept arriving: veterans from the border settlements and a hundred and fifty men from Newfoundland.

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These Hhaha and Shedma people are also borderers, and fight with the accustomed ferocity of border tribes.

The border bandit.

The Grand Duke Albrecht of Wuerttemberg operated between Charleroi and the French border fortress of Maubeuge.

The border trumpet.

Andrew Jackson, the border captain.

The border ground of Canaan, was quarantine ground, enforcing the strictest non-intercourse between the without and the within, not of persons, but of usages.

While Kaotsou was meditating over the possibility of revenge, and considering schemes for the better protection of his frontier, the Tartars, disregarding the truce that had been concluded, retraced their steps, and pillaged the border districts with impunity.

" Here is our last hope of finding a sharp line of demarcation between plants and animals; for, as I have already hinted, there is a border territory between the two kingdoms, a sort of no-man's-land, the inhabitants of which certainly cannot be discriminated and brought to their proper allegiance in any other way.

"He may go as far as the border patrol, fifteen miles east of Antwerp," the captain said to my interpreter.

"Now, Colonel, is Mac goin' to recite some Border ballads?" inquired the Boy, "or will he make a speech, or do a Highland fling?" The Colonel called formally upon Mr. MacCann.

The border trail.

Upon the Pottawotomi lands, scattered through the border regions of Missouri and Iowa, in the Sac and Fox country, a few among the Ioways, among the Poncas, in a great company upon the banks of the l'Eau qui Coulée (or Running Water) River, and at the Omaha winter quarters, the Mormons sustained themselves through the heavy winter of 1846-1847.

Border captives.