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He fought the Indian wars with a ruthlessness that bordered on the maniacal.
The peristyle is bordered by a double gallery with 60 granite and cipolin columns.
A very light rouleau of swansdown bordered the corsage and the fronts of the dress.
In any case, my mental state bordered on madness, and twenty-four hours of Paris sufficed to restore me to my equilibrium.
They made their way down a flagged path bordered by a ten-inch boxwood hedge.
They are rendered in grisaille on a gray ground bordered by a gold strapwork design.
I sat alone, perched happily on a ledge, bordered on three sides by thin air.
The eastern edge of the stand extended slightly beyond the limits of the larger trees that bordered the shoreline.
At points the towpath is bordered with mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
His stock in trade was a brisk heartiness which at times bordered on the devastatingly brutal.
He selected an area that was well isolated from his neighbors, bordered by woods on three sides and on the fourth side by his own hayfield.
The nearly flat trail was bordered on one side by precipitous slopes, where penumbral snowfields fell into the crater 100 feet below.
Its fairways often are bordered by gentle slopes that carom the ball back toward the fairway.
There is side access to the walled rear garden which has also been laid with cobblelock paving and is bordered by various plants and shrubs.
Which is why my harangues in defense of the President's Bioethics Council have bordered on outright rants.
The lawn bordering it was nothing to ogle at, but was certainly well kept, as were the day lilies that bordered the wide path.
By contrast, those in favour of reform were accorded a respect that bordered on the deferential.
It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined.
The horizon, in all directions, seems to be perpetually bordered by a small jut of land, giving the impression of driving through a bowl.
Such was the difference in class that All Stars stroked the ball around with a nonchalance that sometimes bordered on the arrogant.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In front of them was a wide expanse of water bordered by a band of vegetation.
Before this chapter is concluded a few words must be said with respect to the countries which bordered upon the Persian Empire.
This longspur nest, among polygons of low hummocks, was bordered by mosses and grasses nine inches high.
The under shell is yellow and the upper shell is bordered with mottled red.
Pine woods bordered it and dead bracken and whortleberry spread away under the stiff shadows of the silent trees.
On another Panathenaic vase she has a gown bordered with fighting men, evidently the sacred peplos.
The lumina are filled with cellular detritus and are no longer bordered by a clear ring of sustentacular cytoplasm.
The meadow, bordered by red and white fir and Jeffrey and lodgepole pine, offers an attractive but cold campsite.
When a separate antorbital vacuity exists, it is bordered by the maxillary bone in front, and by the malar bone behind.
As a rule buckling of a tracheid begins at the bordered pits which form places of least resistance in the walls.
From this a straight avenue bordered by arbor vitae trees, conducts to a square plot of ground enclosed by low posts and chains.
Suddenly in a shallow pool, near the river's edge, and bordered with waist-high grass, he came upon a flock of black ducks.
The room was a small one, hung with blue satin bordered with wreaths in carton-pierre.
Aurora, in a wine-colored cloth bordered with bands of black fox, tendered a basket heaped with fruit.
It was supposed to be democratic, but it sometimes bordered on the anarchic.
The torso was enveloped in silver-threaded damask, which was crusted with jewelleries and bordered with marten.
Beyond this the road swung into the Morteyn road, that lay cool and moist along the willows that bordered the river lisse.
The shore soon assumes a diluvial character, bordered with long lines of yellow sand and pebbles.
Here the Admiralty clerks wife had a mind to a petticoat of sarcenet bordered with black lace, and probably purchased it.
Before him was a beautifully kept lane bordered by arbored and trellised roses, which seemed to sink into the distance.
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