Thus we, that erst with terrors did attaint The Bactrian bounds, and in our Roman wars Enforc'd the barbarous borderers of the Alps To tremble with the terrors of our looks, Now fly, poor men, affrighted without harms: Seeking amidst the desert rocks and dens For him, that whilom in our capitol Even with a beck commanded Asia.

That person kept continually by his side, and seemed to consider the brave Borderer as his chosen companion-in-arms, whom he was bound to defend through all the perils of the fight.

There are a few Welsh borrowings in the English speech, such as bard and druid; but in the old Anglo-Saxon literature there are no more traces of British song and story than if the two races had been sundered by the ocean instead of being borderers for over six hundred years.

Then, like Logan, he sank under the curse of drunkenness,often hardly less dangerous to the white borderer than to his red enemy,and passed the remainder of his days in ignoble and slothful retirement.

They were especially anxious for spirits, for they far surpassed even the white borderers in their crazy thirst for strong drink.

The borderers at first felt about it as the English Whigs originally felt about the massacre of Glencoe.

They were covetous and treacherous, but made excellent soldiers; and at this epoch, which intervened between the power of imperial Rome and that of Germany, the Frank might be morally considered as a borderer on the frontiers of the Middle Ages.