The columns of the portico are of white marble; the statues of Piety and Concord, works of art; and the flower-borders along the panelled walls, prettily conceived and carefully executed.
American expansion would in time touch the borders of Oregon, and then the dispute could be taken up and settled under much more favourable circumstances.
She was the smallest State in the Union in population, almost the smallest in area, and though technically a Slave State, the proportion of negroes within her borders was small.
Further, even in the act of clearing its own borders of Slavery, the North had dumped its negroes on the South.
Innumerable Irish families, driven from the land of their birth, found a refuge within the borders of the Republic.
The English colonies now formed a solid block extending from the coasts of Maine--into which northernmost region the New England colonies had overflown--to the borders of Florida.
Before the end of the War of Independence it was almost as generally disapproved, and in all States north of the borders of Maryland it soon ceased to exist.
The ancient borders of the lake wherein the fresh-water strata were accumulated may generally be traced with precision, the granite and other ancient rocks rising up boldly from the level country.
Since then a great many other localities, more than a hundred and fifty in all, have been detected of similar pile-dwellings, situated near the borders of the Swiss lakes, at points where the depth of water does not exceed 15 feet.
The Swiss Lower Miocene may best be studied on the northern borders of the Lake of Geneva, between Lausanne and Vevay, where the contiguous villages of Monod and Rivaz are situated.
Southern States of North America, on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico.
But a group of marine shells, indicating a still greater excess of cold, has been brought to light since 1860 by the Reverend Thomas Brown, from glacial drift or clay on the borders of the estuaries of the Forth and Tay.
They are perhaps not more ancient than the Harlech and Barmouth beds last mentioned, for they may represent the deposits of fine mud thrown down in the same sea, on the borders of which the sands above-mentioned were accumulating.
The old and new Ideals agree in looking to an Infinite beyond the borders of experience, for it is in the nature of the ideal to lift us above the merely real.
The waves of the Revolution, however, overflowed the borders of France, and the agitation they caused was quickly communicated to all Germany.
Jehovah does not extend beyond the borders of Palestine.
When the bands were to serve as borders they would have a dentated edging added to them; this edging might be made of either needlepoint or bobbin lace.
The continents are still emerged for the most part almost to the borders of the "continental shelf" which forms their maximum limit.
La Salle, in a canoe, coasted the marshy borders of the sea; and then assembled his companions on a spot of dry ground, a short distance above the mouth of the river.
It afterwards dilates; but, narrower or broader, you possess the whole eastern and north-eastern coast of that vast country, quite from the borders of Pegu.
We were informed that nothing was to be found upon any of its borders exhibiting life except here and there where a brackish fountain, or little streamlet from the mountain, produces a small thicket of cane, willow and tamarisk.
Likewise one on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, near to the port of San Diego.
Not a soul had we met since leaving the borders of the town, and with the exception of one or two animals, game appeared to be very scarce.
Occasionally a parrot upon the borders of the forest uttered a shrill scream, and then spreading its gaudy wings sought shelter upon the bough of a tall tree, from whence it could watch our movements without danger.
His place was taken by Sir Charles Rivers-Wilson, who had a record of efficient {200} service on the borders of politics and finance.
This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders of it round about, according to their families.
There is at times a freedom in his language that borders upon insolence; but hush!
On the borders of Portugal I cut off a small detachment, escorting plundered property for better security to Ciudad Rodrigo.
She was an Indian maiden of the far past, fleeing and seeking with her dusky lover some wild and solitary retreat on the borders of this lake, which offered them no seeming foot-hold save such as they would hew themselves with axe or tomahawk.
And he sent into all the borders of Israel; and all the servants of Baal came: there was not one left that did not come.
Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the borders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he slew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up.
They have made two great borders of tall pink rose-bushes, with dwarf palms from Bordighera planted between, just giving the note of stiffness which one would expect to find in an old-fashioned garden.
Wherever she was she drew pupils from the surrounding towns and even from beyond the borders of the State.
Doth not the yearning spirit scorn In such scant borders to be spanned?
It is hovering on the borders of a region containing this planet we are to land on--a region operating on other basics.
There had been so many such feelings that crept to the borders of consciousness and faded away without meaning anything.
These people hover on the borders of Protestantism, have certain sympathies with the Reformation, but it would be hardly just to call them in the ordinary sense of the term Protestants.
A whole pack were recently heard on the borders of Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire.
He always speaks Welsh in Wales, and English in England, but in these days this bird is so far Anglicised that it blurts out English all along theborders of Wales.
Weather very fine; the lake calm and clear; Mont Blanc and the Aiguille of Argentières both very distinct; the borders of the lake beautiful.
I was fortunate in the assignment to Jefferson Barracks, for in those days the young officers were usually sent off among the Indians or as near the borders as they could find habitable places.
While the army was lying idle on the south bank of the Rapidan my mind reverted to affairs in the West, and especially to the progressive work of the Union army in Tennessee towards the northern borders of Georgia.
Forced to extremities, the Richmond authorities began to realize the importance of finding a way out of our pent-up borders before the Union commander could complete his extensive arrangements to press on with his columns.
From Gettysburg roads diverge to the passes of the mountains, the borders of the Potomac and Susquehanna, and the cities of Baltimore and Washington; so that it was something of a strategic point.
The difference after a calm is remarkable: the cap-borders are spruce; the bonnets wear a new air; the gloves are whole; the married gentlemen appear with complete sets of buttons and rectified stocks.
It was at Oneida Castle, a village on the borders of the Oneida territory, which was once fortified after the Indian fashion, whence its formidable name.
The first examples I give here are the two dentated (or vandyked) borders of Plate 31.
Almost all the colonists upon the borders have a little magazine of these feathers laid by, and when they would make a friendly present to a guest, it is generally an ostrich's feather.
Reading music at sight, painting flowers for the borders of a screen, and a talent for guessing charades.
On his return to the borders of the lake Oncoul, he communicated this extraordinary discovery to his wife and some of his friends; but the way in which they considered the matter filled him with grief.
They go together in herds, like our wild buffaloes, and are very frequently to be met with on the borders of the great desert, about a month's journey from Lassa, in that part of the country inhabited by the wandering Tartars.
This celebrated heroine was the daughter of a peasant of Domremi, near Vaucouleurs, on the borders of Lorrain, and born about the beginning of the fifteenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: border; bound; boundary; outskirts; pale; precinct; side
