retaining Liddesdale and his other Borderlands and Offices in his owne person

1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. ,
some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties

They came to the river that marked the very edge of the borderland of the Wild […]

[…] he pieces together his tale: arson, cattle raids, the usual borderlands story, ending in destitution, the making of orphans.

Is he [the Scotchman] orthodox—he has no doubts. Is he an infidel—he has none either. Between the affirmative and the negative there is no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument.

Mr. Alwyn, the line between virtue and foolishness is dim and wavering, and I should hate to see you lost in that marshy borderland. […]

But she did not look as if she were dying; she looked as if she might go on existing in this borderland between life and death for ever.

the subject lies in the misty borderlands of advancing knowledge

[…] he found himself in that frustrating mental state in which one is too exhausted to think productively and yet too alert to sleep, and in this restless borderland he lay for the remainder of the night […]

Borderland

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Noun

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