"The Bructerian, borderer on the Hercynian forest, came.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference

My father was a borderer; so not even exactly either English or Scotch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

They were a borderer people of Rome, sometimes inside the borders and sometimes outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SUIOGOTHIC.] Reference

Plain in every way was the life of the borderer -- plain in dress, in manners, in equipage, in houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

` Barbarism is the natural state of mankind, 'the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

He was right, for the pistols were dropped and the room cleared on the instant; whereupon the bully borderer clapped his wings and crowed and disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

'The ballad,' says Professor Child, 'is one of the best in the world, and enough to make a horse-trooper of any young borderer, had he lacked the impulse.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

Courage and hospitality, however, were then hardly accounted virtues, being too universal to be distinguished as such; and courtesy was equally native to the independent borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics] Reference

The confidence of the borderer in him was not misplaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand] Reference

What a ship is to the sailor, so the rifle was to the borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"] Reference

That was a matter of course with every borderer in such moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand] Reference

This distinguished borderer was born in Augusta county, Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c.] Reference

He was too good a borderer now to exhaust himself in the beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad] Reference

Further the experienced eye of the borderer saw he could not follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

He was a borderer in the fullest sense in a commonwealth of borderers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Webster] Reference

It would be unjust to the borderer to pursue the parallel much farther.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

"That would do little good, truly," muttered the borderer, like one musing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

The Panther was a wonderful borderer, and Obed White was not far behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad] Reference

A great and solemn wood that is, which no borderer will ever enter if he can help it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lore of Proserpine] Reference

He was Henry Karnes, the Tennesseean, great scout and famous borderer of the Texas plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty] Reference

All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patient Anonymous: Just Another Head Case] Reference

"One of them brown rascals will never reach the woods," said Ross with the intuition of the borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky] Reference

Distance did not amount to much to the borderer, and his long, easy gait carried him on, mile after mile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods] Reference

He would have referred again to the saving of his life, but he knew that the great borderer would not like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"] Reference

The resemblance between the American borderer and his European prototype is singular, though not always uniform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

Weather was a tremendous factor in the life of the borderer, and he was compelled to guide most of his actions by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness] Reference

Feelings, they might be termed emotions, of a different nature troubled the breast of this resolute but justly-disposed borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

The name of Davy Crockett was a great one in the southwest, and here he was, face to face, hands gripped with the great borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad] Reference

"In your study of the Indian's case you have discovered the fact that the borderer is often the aggressor and sometimes the thief.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

Though the nature of the borderer was essentially honest and kind, he was, in opinions and prejudices, but a creature of the times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

He had long been a hardy adventurer, a kind of equivocal borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a tolerable dash of the pickaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of a Traveller] Reference

"I thought as much," exclaimed Paul, thrusting forth his hand frankly, and with the true freedom of manner that marks an American borderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference