Even in the previous century the parapsychological faculties of the human brain had belonged to the questionable field of the so-called borderland sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Good Night, Mrs. Calabash] Reference
Like many historians, the author prefers the word borderland to frontier because it connotes a place of instability, a place of conflict among several sources of power. From Wordnik.com. [Drums Along the Niagara] Reference
Most of this money came from a special fund earmarked for development of "borderland" areas of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research] Reference
His eyes were shut, and he was in that hot borderland which is the nearest approach to sleep at noontide in Nigeria. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
"borderland;" and if so, I feel, with the experience of time, that I was in a very unsafe land -- a land of war and strife with all the attending evils. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,] Reference
European war than are killed in a borderland skirmish. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
A wild spot this, on the borderland of the three states. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
State; you approach, in so doing, the borderland of Imposture. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Austro-Italian borderland, and with the northeastern coast of the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
I asked somewhat hazily, for I was still on the borderland of dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
Faithful followers of the heroes on the borderland of myth -- King Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Revolution it was the borderland over which the raids of both belligerents swept. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
This borderland is admirably wooded, and the Tweed valley is pre-eminent in that respect. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The militarization of the border has imposed tremendous burdens on borderland communities. From Wordnik.com. [Aaron Belkin: Hypocrisy on Immigration (and Salad)] Reference
But you are dangerously near to the borderland separating the sublime from the ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
If he succeeds, however, the repercussions will be felt far beyond Russia's southern borderland. From Wordnik.com. [Man for the People] Reference
Reason, fancy, passion, a pathos and humour where the smile trembles on the borderland of tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
She was lying on the borderland, looking over and longing to go where all her dear ones had gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
After over four months of travel Huc arrived at the monastery of Kunkum on the borderland of Tibet. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
For starters, it will make the borderland countries that much more attractive as a springboard to the West. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Next Door] Reference
Few things of so happy a sort can befall a child of imagination as to be born on such a borderland of time. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
He came presently to a well-known undertaker's, and, stepping in, felt more than ever the borderland-sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
What is fact and what is fable it were difficult to tell in this far-away borderland where they seem to blend. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Then, the effort over, the stored-up vitality spent, he hoped to go out swiftly, no dallying on the dim borderland. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Thus he zigzagged across the borderland of civilization and led a most picturesque, but strictly honorable, double life. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
Sometimes, Harlan fancied, he too was beginning to see those fearful shadowy images that dance on the borderland of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
It speaks volumes for the high estimate which British integrity had already earned amongst these rough borderland people, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
But the character of the forces which are thus liberated makes it equally clear that this is not the borderland he was looking for. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
And in places the Huns had strung live wires, carrying voltages strong enough to kill a man, just as they did along the borderland of Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Location -- Reno is situated in Western Nevada, twelve miles from the state line, and on the borderland of the lofty Sierras and Nevada plateau. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
From that Prince Rupert of the astronomers, Professor James E. Keeler, who has made more than one fiery dash across the borderland of known science, we have. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
"Horry," ceased altogether, and even then there was an interval during which Sissy still breathed, still lingered in the borderland between living and dying. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Thus, though he has won a world-wide fame as the Cornish poet, Hawker was really Devonian; in this borderland of the two counties there is practically no difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Bailey who had had long experience of the Tibetans in administrative work on the northeastern borderland of India, was no exception, and he defended them vigorously. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
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