My home in Loudoun county, on the border line between the North and South, gave me an unusual opportunity of judging how far the negro could be trusted in caring for and protecting the homes of the men who were in the Southern armies.
This island is situated in that bend of the river which touches the border of Tennessee, a few miles further up the river than New Madrid, although nearly southeast of that point.
Subjugation of theBorder States, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Conference of President Lincoln with Senators and Representatives of Border States.
I should wish the first apartment of the suite, and which serves for an ante-room, to be painted with light green, with a border of lilachs.
As to my private cabinet, let it be colored light blue, with a borderof ranunculus and polyanthus.
Five eagle plumes are attached to the cloud backs (eagles live with the clouds); the body is surrounded with sunlight; the lines of red and blue which border the bunch upon the back denote sunbeams penetrating storm clouds.
It occurs quite close to the Jeditoh spring which gives its name to the valley along whose northern and western border are distributed the ruins above described, beginning with the Horn house.
Two rivers traverse this region, flowing from the high mountains which border it.
Its northern border is marked by precipitous mountains,[4] which on account of their steepness especially bear the name of Haiti.
This leads to the supposition that there may have been, in that age, a series of river- receiving estuaries along the border of some such great ocean as the Atlantic, of which that of modern Sussex is only an example.
As for me, I am working up quite a good business connection on this side of the border for my father.
You see, on theborder of the two countries it is different from anywhere else.
The breadth of the black varnishborder on the back was slightly greater than that on the film side of the negative, being about an inch.
The easiest way to use these ornamental border negatives is as follows:--First print the border negative; you will then have a print with a white oval space in the centre.
I intend to plant five acres about January 1, on the valley border in Placer county and they get heavy frost in the morning.
Whether they can endure the lowest temperatures of the winter-killing regions of the northern border cannot be determined in California, for we do not have the conditions for such tests.
Sometimes a bag is worked as a shield of four squares; in such a case, two squares should be worked in feather stitch, and the others in any stitch that will form a pleasing contrast: the border should be a simple, but elegant lace pattern.
The border is often made to resemble black lace, and when properly executed, looks extremely well.
Some ladies work a border to their neck handkerchief, which gives to those made of net the appearance of lace.
The shawl must be knitted on the same sized pins as the border and corner, and must have as many loops as there are stitches in the length of the border.
You have only to double the cuffs, turning the plain side inmost, and the rows of wool and silk will form a kind of border and finish to the whole.
In order that when the shawl is doubled the hems of both folds may appear at the same time, care must be taken, after laying on the border on two successive sides, to turn the shawl, and then lay on the remainder of the border.
The border and corner may be done in two colors, which must harmonize well with each other, and form a good contrast to the shawl itself.
For braces and bracelets, any small border pattern may be adopted.
The border should be three nails broad, and of course joined point to point at the corners; and it must be so set on as that the two corners shall fall properly over each other.
The comforter is to be done in double knitting, and may be finished with a fringe and border at the end.
Reaching this place Ned shouted, though he found himself so hoarse that he hardly knew his own voice; and several times choked, as though he was close to the border of having a fit.
You can see they've got some of their women folks along, and that this is like a regular border village.
She was an only child--a spoiled one; having been bred up without perhaps ever being controlled, till she fell into the hands of these border mosstroopers.
But at the same hour on the day of the Conception, if it is still madly and wantonly detained, there shall be such a scene transacted before your eyes as shall blur the annals of the Borderfor ever.
There was nothing but the perils of that castle on the Bordertalked of over all Scotland and England.
The first that was brought out was a thick-set swarthy yeoman, who said his name was Edmund Heaton, and that he had been a servant to Belsay, whom he had followed in the border wars.
Will that keep the braid border for the king, my master?
Two rows of planks laid on edge along its outer border would completely screen a man crawling along by the rock wall, even from the sight of an enemy on the bank immediately opposite.
Behind them, at some little distance, rode eight or ten bearded men of swarthy hue, whose turbans, tunics, and long boots proclaimed them as sowars of a regiment of Border cavalry.
For the moment the tide had apparently spent itself on the eastern border of Asiatic Turkey, and the mountain chain dividing Persia.
Resolving to crack the nut himself, he suddenly left India, disappeared for many months, and then emerged, to the no small embarrassment of the Russians, on the border at Wakhan.
Behind them at a gallop came fifty sowars of the Border force, led by Major Endicott himself.
Yes," replied Bob, who was becoming an expert in the Border dialects.
Nagdu was a bold fellow, and had proved his mettle in many a border fray; but the habit of discipline and the impression made upon him by the Englishman's dominant personality had acted like a cold douche upon his purpose.
The very little cheerfulness there is in Connaught is quite absent from Munster, or at least the Tipperary border of county Limerick.
The people of the border of county Limerick and county Tipperary are quite ready to "muster in their thousands" at a convenient hour, but they are sure to be taken at a disadvantage before nine o'clock.
It is a lone tower like a border "peel," but on the very edge of the sea.
RANGE--Northwestern Mexico and border of the United States, from western Texas to New Mexico and southern Arizona.
You lived on this border for a long time; you will doubtless remember the frightful catastrophe in which the Count de Melgosa's brother was assassinated?
With vicarious generosity, the English Government gave very lenient terms to the Kaffir tribes who in 1834 had raided the border farmers.
From the Free State border Ladysmith is about twenty-five miles distant in a straight line, and from the Transvaal border near Vryheid to Ladysmith is about twice that distance.
A force of Rhodesian volunteers is moving from Buluwayo towards Tuli, on the northern border of the Transvaal.
When the ultimatum expired his forces were spread along the border line of the Free State and the Transvaal, so that a forward movement would concentrate them in the northern triangle of Natal.
That army was in three parts: there was a fraction on the western border of the Free State, a fraction south of the Orange River, and the great bulk of the whole force was in northern Natal.
A narrow border of fixed repeating forms like a rug-border will often fulfil the necessity for architectural lines, and confine the flower-border into limits which justify its freedom of composition.
This may be secured by making the centre or main part of the carpet comparatively small, and using a very wide and important border of contrasting colour--a border so wide as to make itself an important part of the carpet.
There is a border of various tints at its edge, which softens it into the brown shadow of the room, and the centre of each large sash is marked by a shield-like ornament glowing with colour like a jewel.
And as for aspect--had he not chosen the aspect of the herbaceous border at which he was now working?
In the latter bird there is a conspicuous osseous ridge extending far down the shaft of the bone, it being continued from the internal, thickened border of the hypotarsus.
No matter how reckless the Dutch settlers may have been regarding the border natives, there was no justification in policy for such an insensate and ill-timed defence of native invasion.
As time passed, and amid all the countless mutations of South African policy, this inevitable advance of the British border and gradual incorporation of native tribes went on.
During four years a sort of guerilla war was carried on with Gonnema, the Chief of the clan, and considerable loss of cattle, some loss of life and a great loss of sleep caused to the bordersettlers before peace was concluded.
By August, when a large body of Dutch volunteers and some British regulars were got together, all the border country had been harried.
The first act of its Government, toward the close of 1840, was to attack a chief named N'Capai, living two hundred miles from the territory of the alleged Republic, and not far from the border of Cape Colony.
They were willing to accept the supremacy of the Queen, the British control of their foreign policy, the management of their relations with the natives and even the control of their border policy.
Owing to the prompt action and wise measures taken the area of disturbance was limited and Cape Colony saved from those horrors of savage border warfare to which it had been so accustomed in the past.
Powerful and well-equipped tribes on the border of the Free State clamored for an opportunity to pay off old scores on their hereditary foes, but Sir Godfrey Lagden kept them back.
And there he found her, standing beside the flower border which she had placed round the grave of the child whom she had tended and nursed in vain.
She moved from him as she said this, and went to a little mound that seemed not long since raised; there was a simple cross at the head and a narrow border of flowers round it.
At last he caught a glimpse of the gardener, bending over a flower border with his watering-pot, and then moving slowly through the little shrubbery, no doubt to his own cottage.
He would only take a very little, and only as a medicine, of course; there could be no harm in that--it was mere prudence.
There are not so many actors in the story that the reader is baffled, and each of them is beautifully drawn, so that their characters stand out clearly and consistently.
At certain points in her opening number an undulating movement seemed to run from her neck to her waist and to die out in the trailing border of her tunic.
That morning Pere Merlier had sought out Dominique in his hut on the border of the wood.
Ten years before he had arrived from Belgium as the heir of his uncle, who had left him a small property upon the very border of the forest of Gagny, just opposite the mill, a few gunshots distant.
