The like example have we of Titus Livius, whom to see and hear divers studious persons came to Rome from the confines of France and Spain.
When the citizenship of Rome had spread beyond the confines in Italy, it was an altogether impossible one.
But beyond the confines of India and the realms of caste Buddhism spread--until it had won China and Siam and Burma and Japan, countries in which it is predominant to this day.
He touched on the confines of this settled land and that.
First came the giant ape-man, his smooth, brown skin glistening with the sweat of exertion in the close, hot confines of the jungle.
Riding with the reckless courage of desperation the Belgian urged his mount to greater speed even within the narrow confines of the winding, game trail that the beast was following.
One person must sight the object and keep it in the picture by the manipulation of the two handles governing the respective movements of the tripod head, while the other confines his energies to turning the camera handle.
As we now emerge from the warm and greasy confines of our ancient cookshop, we begin to see with new eyes its true place as an economic factor.
A Ghetto, an age-old Ghetto, crowded into a stony corner of the crowded stony city; its steep and narrow confines not more a boundary than the iron prejudices that built them.
Ivan knew how varied and constant are the devices made use of in Russia to entrap the unwary, and to shew that the power of that vast engine of despotism, the secret police, can extend to the very confines of the Empire.
Who, among us here, has not suffered innumerable wrongs and unbearable injuries at their hands, since their dark eagles first hovered over the confines of our lands?
The mountaineers halted in the confines of the forest.
After you have passed through the city, you and your guide may assume the character of pilgrims, returning from thence, towards their habitations on the confines of the country.
Beginning upon the confines of Chinese Tartary, its vast expanse of sterile wilderness stretches over some twelve hundred and fifty miles towards the coasts of the Pacific.
The broad and irresistible wave of Western civilization has reached the confines of their vast territories, before long will pour in upon them, and already is slowly, but surely, undermining many an ancient landmark.
The combat we might imagine takes place on the confines of a forest, and if we may judge from an upward inclination of the foreground on the right, at the base of a hillside.
And at the palace a feast was prepared, because Pywll was come back from the confines of Dyved.
And he came to a vast and desert wood, on the confines of which was a lake.
I must spread out my hair in order to shave it, and it will never be spread out unless I have the blood of the jet-black sorceress, the daughter of the pure white sorceress, from Pen Nant Govid, on the confines of Hell.
And the place in the Cantrev where he dwelt, was a palace of his in a spot called Mur y Castell, on the confines of Ardudwy.
The next day Peredur went forth by the high road, along a mountain- ridge, and he saw a valley of a circular form, the confines of which were rocky and wooded.
And Gwydion and Gilvaethwy came not near the Court, but stayed in the confines of the land until it was forbidden to give them meat and drink.
Moreover, when we come to watch the confines of the animal and vegetable kingdom, we realise how difficult it is to seize the precise line of demarcation which separates the great kingdoms of Nature.
Hamilton confines the word Enthymeme to valid arguments, in pursuance of his view that Pure Logic has no concern with invalid arguments.
And a dialectic that confines itself to the consideration of what is ordinarily meant as distinct from what ought to be meant may often serve a useful purpose.
Outside the town Lord Kenmare has built some nice cottages, but within itsconfines he could effect nothing.
Even Newton, in establishing his system of universal attraction, declares his ignorance of the immediate cause of the phenomenon, and confines himself to assigning the laws to which the motions of bodies are subjected.
McClellin informed us that he was on reather a speculative expedition to the confines of New Spain, with the view to entroduce a trade with those people.
This delighfull river from indian information has it's extreem sources with the North river in the Rocky mountains on the confinesof New Mexico.
Turn we now to the State of Castelcicala--that lovely land which lies between the northern frontiers of the Neapolitan dominions and the southern confines of the Papal territory.
Labour has been abundant, and wages high: employment has extirpated mendicancy; and squalor, filth, and demoralisation exist no longer within the confines of Castelcicala.
In the progress of conquest from the north and south, the Goths and the Saracens encountered each other on the confines of Europe and Africa.
But their riches were confiscated, their arms became more effectual in the hands of the Mussulmans; and a wretched colony of seven hundred exiles was driven, with their wives and children, to implore a refuge on the confines of Syria.
Under the last of the Ommiades, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days' journey from east to west, from the confines of Tartary and India to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
Antioch was oppressed by the speed and secrecy of his enterprise; and the dependent cities, as far as Laodicea and the confines of Aleppo, [55] obeyed the example of the metropolis.
They were dismissed with a safe-conduct to the confines of Syria: a part of the old Christians had quietly lived under their dominion; and the vacant habitations were replenished by a new colony.
On the confines of Hungary he was stopped three weeks by a Christian people, to whom the name, or at least the abuse, of the cross was justly odious.
After this deed of sacrilege and cruelty, they continued to infest the confines of Irak, Syria, and Egypt: but the vital principle of enthusiasm had withered at the root.
Within the sheltering confines of the tent, Si'Wren counted herself a cherished and defended slave, safe within the walls of her Master's House, where strange men could not ogle or frighten her.
I don't believe, however, that there are so many wholly sordid marriages outside the confines of the set generally prefixed as 'smart.
One can imagine it written innumerable times, in flaming letters, across the confines of Hell.
Three times in his six years' rule he passed the confinesof Rome and Italy.
Once safely in the confines of his own residence, he let loose on her a torrent of recrimination, half English, half French, that reduced her to the lowest depths of terrified humility.
Masked and black-garbed figures flitted about its spacious confines at will.
Within the confines of this area are some of the most splendid examples extant of Burgundian domestic architecture of the Renaissance period.
Winding its way between the confinesof Burgundy and the Comté the highroad from Paris to Pontarlier and Switzerland led us first to Auxonne.
Illustration] Just at the confines of Dauphiny and Savoy the Isère sweeps majestically around the forefoot of the fortress of Montmélian, which guards the mountain gateway to the snowbound upper valleys.
It is worth continuing in this direction a step farther to Belfort in the "territory," although it is actually beyond the confines of Burgundy's "Free County.
The donjon of the old chateau, the Tour Brune, as it is called, is not far from the cathedral, within the confines of the military barracks.
Albeit that Châtillon lies on the banks of the Seine it is well within the confines of Burgundy.
Within the confines of the town are three distinctly defined structures which may be classed as mediæval chateaux: the Chateau de Blonay, the Tour de Fonbonne, and the Manoir Gribaldi, belonging to the Archbishops of Vienne.
The chevet of the Eglise de Saint Vorles and its churchyard also intermingle with the confines of the chateau in an extraordinary manner.
After leaving Khu-aten, the Nile wound through wild country, the hills approaching its course so closely as to suggest the confines of a gorge.
