borderer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of borderer
Example Sentences
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The situation smacked of the ridiculous to the youthful borderer, and the time and place alone prevented him from indulging his risibles.
From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers
It would not take him, an expert borderer and woodsman, long to get that prairie chicken, and after that, as he had said before, it was only a step from grass to pot.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
His position, however, which was in more senses than one that of a borderer between two worlds, gives to the study of his writings an exceptional value.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas
For a moment the sly old borderer made no response, and I knew he was quietly turning over the complicated situation in his own mind preparatory to intelligent action.
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Parrish, Randall
There was little in his figure or appearance which would have indicated the habits of a borderer of the period, yet one would scarcely have ventured to guess at any other calling or profession.
From The Frontiersmen by Aimard, Gustave
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