borderer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of borderer
Example Sentences
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We were too well-mounted to fear being overtaken; and, as we galloped off into the night, with confidence could we echo the cry of the bold borderer: “They’ll have fleet steeds that follow!”
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
These animals become as tame as dogs, and are of great value to the borderer, as it costs nothing to rear them, and they can be put to any work.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
Re´naud, one of the paladins of Charlemagne, always described with the properties of a borderer, valiant, alert, ingenious, rapacious, and unscrupulous.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Nevertheless, he was still the borderer, still the man of the open.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
The old borderer looked up with a smile, in which shame and sadness mingled.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
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