A gallant leader is seldom wanting to gallant men engaged in a good cause; and Aristomenes might serve as a type for all later heroes, whose exploits belong to thedebateable ground which lies between truth and fiction.
The situation of the Roost is in the very heart of what was the debateable ground between the American and British lines, during the war.
The intervening country, from Croton River to Spiting Devil Creek, was the debateable land, subject to be harried by friend and foe, like the Scottish borders of yore.
The cavalry are ravaging the debateable land and living upon the inhabitants at their discretion.
A short way farther down the Esk is Netherby, headquarters of that clan whose peel towers once dotted this part of Cumberland and all the Debateable Land, and who in the early seventeenth century were so hardly used by James VI and I.
Stretched between Sark and Longtown is the Debateable Land and Solway Moss; the latter "just a muckle black moss," they will tell you here, yet surely not without its own beauty under certain combinations of sun and cloud.
Upmeads, and the Burg-devils will have come from the Wood Debateable to find graves by the fair river.
Well, some of us, of whom I was one, fetched a compass and crossed the water that runneth through Upmeads by the Red Bridge, and so gat us into the Wood Debateable through the Uplands.
The Wood Debateable also he cleared of foul robbers and reivers, and rooted out the last of the Burg-devils, and delivered three good towns beyond the wood from the cruelty of the oppressor.
Well," quoth Ralph; "strip them of all armour and weapons, and let a score of thy riders drive them back the way they came into the Debateable Wood.
As for Ralph the youngest, his father would not have him ride the Wood Debateable as yet.
No doubt among the "broken men" of the Debateable land, and in some parts of Liddesdale, you will find a considerable number of disreputable characters whose only law was the length of their own swords.
In Liddesdale, in the district known as the Debateable land, and along the shores of the Solway, the inhabitants were grouped into clans, many of them numerous and powerful.
But apart from the fact that "evil communications corrupt good manners," the near neighbourhood of the Debateable land constituted an indirect incentive to crime.
Still more drastic measures were adopted in order to get rid of the Graemes, who inhabited the Debateable land, and whose depredations had provoked a bitter feeling of resentment on both sides of the Border.
The Debateable land continued to nourish "ane great company of thieves and traitores, to the great hurt and skaith of the honest lieges" as in times by-past.
It is probable that the men of Liddesdale were to a certain extent corrupted by their propinquity to the lawless hordes which inhabited the Debateable land.
The family bearing this patronymic was well known in Liddesdale and the Debateable land, and the various branches of the family, like the Armstrongs and Elliots, were distinguished for their reiving propensities.
The Debateableland constituted for generations just such a "sanctuary," or place of refuge for Border thieves.
It was still a debateable question, as appears by the prefatory dialogue between Trevisa and his patron, Lord Berkley, whether any translation of the Chronicle were at all necessary, Latin being the general language.
Or if the thieves of Rokehope or the Debateable Lands, or of those places that I do not know, had taken him, would they not have made more attempts at his ransoming than once sending to Castle Lovell?
Daily men resorted to him and sought his service, coming in from the hills and moors and Debateable Lands, all strong and hardy men so that it was difficult to make a choice.
He had organized and directed the policy by which the forces of England, France, and Protestant Germany had possessed themselves of the debateable land.
Maurice would have rejoiced, had the Marshal blundered longer along the road to the debateable land than he had done.
An even more curious variation from this type of ownership occurs in some of those countries which long formed a debateable land between the Turkish empire and the possessions of the House of Austria.
But this is not the place to pursue such highly debateable matters.
Scarcely waiting my answer, we walked from our parlour into what I called the Debateable Land.
They are all real and serious issues,[75] having plausible arguments pro and con, debateable without end, and settled by every man for himself according to his own sentiment and predisposition.
To set out distinctly all the separate debateable points is one of the most essential precautions for ensuring correct decision.
Arriving at length near the debateableland of Lee's old station, we resumed our examination of the Bogan.
With possession, deficiency of water in dry seasons had been remedied, and no such debateable land had remained on the borders of a British colony.
The debateable ground, if at last equally debateable as it was at first, is yet ploughed; and some after-comer may sow it with seed, and reap therefrom a plentiful harvest.
It was of course its position in theDebateable Land which prompted its builders to invest it with such strength and solidity.
The former comprises those words of which the less exact rendering finds place in the Text:--the latter, "Alternative renderings in difficult and debateable passages.
An attempt was made to deal with that portion of waste land upon the western borders which had been, for so long, a harbour of refuge for the outlaws of both kingdoms, and which was known as the Debateable Ground.
There is a party at the Debateable Ford, whether Schlangenwald or Wildschloss we know not yet, but either way you must be the first thing placed in safety.
Then will our wagons be no longer set upon at the Debateable Ford by Schlangenwald or Adlerstein; and our wares will come safely, and there will be wealth enough to raise our spire!
The suggestion was not worth a thought, and it was plain that no site would be available except the Debateable Strand.
Thou wentest after an inheritance from the old Mouser of the Debateable Ford, and wert ousted by a couple of lusty boys sprung of a peasant wedlock.
Yet even while her frame quivered with fear, her heart swelled at the thought what a gulf there was between these days and those when she had hidden her face in despair, while Ermentrude watched the Debateable Ford.
Hap what hap, the Debateable Ford shall be debated!
Little lady," he said, "is this theDebateable Ford?
Tradition, too, indicates the existence of an old March or Debateable Land; for south of Rug-by begins the scene of the deeds of Guy Earl of Warwick, the slayer of the Dun Cow.
Here is the debateableground between hysteria and genius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debateable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
