Thus in the statues themselves and in their attendant genii we have a series of abstractions, symbolising the sleep and waking of existence, action and thought, the gloom of death, the lustre of life, and the intermediate states of sadness and of hope that form the borderland of both.

He will enter the borderland of insanity if pituitary difficulties supervenes.

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

I think Shelley means that the successive hopes kindled in the mourner by the ideas of a boundless universe of space and of spirit will have lured him to the very brink of mundane lifeto the borderland between life and death: he will almost have been tempted to have done with life, and to explore the possibilities of death.

He had scarcely penetrated the borderland of that delectable garden, but the first meagre fruit thereof was sweet.

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 rivers as a rule formed the boundaries of the provinces, and the fords were constantly guarded by champions who challenged every wayfarer to single combat, if he could not show sufficient reason for crossing the borderland.

MOSS-TROOPERS, maurauders who formerly raided the moss-grown borderland of England and Scotland.