But, however this may be, I am assured now, only of the fact that I became steadily more conscious of a new mystery about me, telling me that I had, indeed, penetrated within the borderland of some unthought-of regionsome subtle, intangible place, or form, of existence.

Moreover many things lie on the borderland between the two domains and may properly be attached to either.

But we are being tempted outside our arbitrary boundary and must return to the Yeovil road that wanders up hill and down again into the charming vales of the Somerset borderland by way of East Chinnock and West Coker.

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

"After the grouse came the loon, who had explored the borderland to the west.

All this part of southern Hungary and Croatia was formed by the Austrians into a military borderland against Turkey, and the Croats and immigrant Serbs were organized as military colonists with special privileges, on the analogy of the Cossacks in southern Russia and Poland.

As I have already remarked, Russians could not contemplate otherwise than with pleasure the possible union and assimilationin principleof the borderland with the other parts of our vast fatherland: they will also be unanimous in wishing this task as successful an issue as is possible.....

The mysticism of the borderland at its supreme is a hope; at its nadir, it is a fear.