Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September 1875; with a Glimpse at the Slavonic Borderlandsof Turkey.
The carving on the so-called Hedwig glasses is, as we shall see, executed in an allied if somewhat degenerate style; some of these glasses can be traced back to the borderlands of Poland.
In addition, almost the whole of the glass of higher quality made in later days in Germany and in the Bohemian borderlands belongs essentially to this last class.
The march was at a swift pace, for three weeks by canoe is short enough time to traverse the Minnesota and Manitoba Borderlands northwest to Lake Winnipeg; and in seventeen days M.
Far north of the Missouri beyond the borderlandsflows the Saskatchewan.
The origin of the group usually identified as Saxons is not quite clear, but it was settled by the Hungarian rulers in the Transylvanian borderlands in the twelfth century for the same purpose as the Szeklers.
One group of colonists--the Szeklers, or Szekelys--were settled in the eastern borderlands of Transylvania in the first part of the twelfth century to protect the plains from invaders.
The wide stretches of unprotected borderlands have obliged the Germans to consider very carefully the question of frontier defenses.
The little Russians, over twenty-two millions in all, are settled in the Ukraine, which contains also in the borderlands some twelve per cent of Jews and six per cent of Poles.
The Brownie proper belonged to the Shetland and the Western Isles, to Cornwall, and the Highlands and Borderlands of Scotland.
A little hunchback resting at nightfall in an enchanted neighborhood, heard the fairies, from theirborderlands near by, singing over and over the names of the days of the week.
When we take an introspective view of our sane personality, we shudder to see how near it is to the borderlands of insanity and the bizarre and eccentric world of crankdom.
This shows how near indeed the healthy mind ever hovers on the borderlands of insanity.
The inhabitants of the borderlands are invested with a certain shadowy mystery which separates them from the rest of mankind, and which makes them appear to us as denizens of another psychical world than ours.
Common both to Sudanese and Bantus, especially about the westernborderlands (Upper Guinea, Cameruns, etc.
This is how the ethnical confusion in these borderlands gets perpetuated.
His mounted bands traversed the borderlands with amazing rapidity, rushing in suddenly upon the Russian outposts, waylaying detachments, and bewildering the commanders by the speed and secrecy of their movements.
Where, then, it may be asked, for this malady of the refined, are the borderlands of happiness to be found?
From Borderlands and Thoroughfares by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.
