How To Use Bordered In A Sentence

The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
Proximally, the bursa is bordered by a synovial lining that separates the bursa from the proximal fat pad.
A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side. Alone
It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
The white bordered by the red currant is also down the side of the chest of the shirt. Archive 2009-09-01

In addition, the floor was paved with a nice mosaic "carpet" in black, white, purple, and orange, representing central guilloche motifs, bordered by bead-and-reels that were lined by chevrons. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 5
The visual communication between members bordered on symbiosis as they smoothly switched up guitars, worked pedals, bashed away at keyboards and wailed through guitar solos.
Outside the cobblelock forecourt to the front of the house is bordered by plants and shrubs and has plenty of space for offstreet parking.
Curves, like waves breaking, had been worked into the sides, accented by the gilt-covered scrolls that bordered the edges.
She bordered a skirt with lace.
As they turned into the hedges that bordered the door, a man motioned to Gordon, shamefaced. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
The physical examination revealed a 42 mm erythematous and violaceous, irregularly bordered plaque with intermittent atrophy, hypopigmentation, and scarring.
By contrast, those in favour of reform were accorded a respect that bordered on the deferential.
A patio area is bordered by a number of plant beds and steps lead from this area to a slightly sunken lawn which also features a barna shed.
Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
The road is strait and spacious and kept in excellent repair by the industrious inhabitants, and is generally bordered by tall and spreading trees as the magnolia, liquid amber, liriodendron, catalpa and live oak, and on the verges of the canals where the road was causewayed, stood the cyprus, lacianthus and magnolia, all planted by nature and left standing by the virtuous inhabitants, to shade the road and perfume the sultry air. Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860
The back of the hotel bordered on an empty space occupied only by weeds and mangy dogs. LORD OF THE SILENT
Once off the A19, the roads to Kepwick were bordered by thick drifts of snowdrops and we found more growing alongside winter aconite in the small churchyard.
They came to the creek-bed bordered by salmonberry and horsetails, where the rushing waters had begun to rejuvenate with the infusion of October rainwater. The Good House
Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011
Once poker was a game played by chain-smoking, visor-wearing social oddities with rolls of cash and an obsession for cards which bordered on addiction.
Its white breast was bordered by broad dark swaths and had a dark blot right in the center.
Its front edge was bordered by a sort of storage box of stone, which contained a small vessel made of sewn baleen and wood.
It was a dirt road bordered by a dry ditch.
An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice.
This renown, however, always bordered on infamy.
With a canniness which bordered on the telepathic he asked for a Tio Pepe. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Land and Information New Zealand estimates that 30% of the coastline is already inaccessible because it is bordered by privately owned land.
The manuscripts can be taken as beautiful pieces of calligraphy, often illustrated and bordered with decorative motifs, so much so that each folio became a fine piece of art.
This was carved out of the clay millions of years ago by the passage of the river, leaving wide flood plains bordered by low, wooded foothills.
She smirked and then looked up at me with an expression that bordered on concern and friendliness. Heart Song
The road on which the Federals marched passed by the mill and was bordered on the left by millponds and swamps and on the right by a swamp that extended into the Wateree River.
Towards the end, Sam's boisterousness bordered on belligerence.
By full time, it bordered on a full-blown travesty of justice.
At points the towpath is bordered by mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment. Caesars’ Wives
With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem. Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
Shaded by two Mediterranean oaks, it is bordered along its edge by a brimming blue-glazed swimming pool that shoots off into the garden.
It is a dietary mantra that has bordered on the fanatic: fat is a killer and a clogger and it furs your arteries, bursts your blood vessels, and sends your weight soaring through the stratosphere.
No, old chap. But bearing in mind that them were which I meantersay of a stunning and outdacious sort - alluding to them which bordered on weal-cutlets and dog-fighting - a sincere wellwisher would adwise, Pip, their being dropped into your meditations, when you go up-stairs to bed. Great Expectations
Two taiaha span the top edge of the painting, while the rest is bordered with red and black koru.
He was dressed in the purple-bordered toga praetexta and preceded by twenty-four lictors shivering in crimson tunics and brass-bossed black leather belts, with the ominous axes inserted in their bundles of rods. Fortune's Favorites
They were particularly numerous where there was a small bay, or pokelogan, as it is called, bordered by a strip of meadow, or separated from the river by a low peninsula covered with coarse grass, wool-grass, etc., wherein they had waded back and forth and eaten the pads. The Maine Woods
Towards the end, Sam's boisterousness bordered on belligerence.
We sheltered behind the great beams supporting the windmill, and looked out through them, north and east, over a wide landscape; a plain bordered eastward by low hills, every mile of it, almost, watered by England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
They made their way down a flagged path bordered by a ten-inch boxwood hedge.
Difficulties include a vast number of crossings at grade and a city both bordered and bisected by rivers, making system expansion even more expensive than merely acquiring rights of way and fending off NIMBY concerns. Matthew Yglesias » Transit in St. Louis
The charcoal consists entirely of pycnoxylic coniferopsid wood characterized by 30-40 m diameter tracheids with contiguous, oval, seriate, alternate, bordered pitting on their radial walls and blank tangential walls.
There was a fireplace against one wall that was bordered with bricks and near it were several comfortable looking seats that surrounded it.
The 90 acres of grassland, bordered by hawthorn hedgerows, is home to hundreds of plants, birds and insects.
Toward the centre of town the roads opened out into wide piazzas bordered by cafes and pizzerias which filled the air with the smell of coffee, fresh bread, mixed herbs and fried mushrooms.
As an oceanfront town (20,000 people) bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Intracoastal Waterway to the west, Sunny Isles is just 11 miles up Collins Avenue from the din of South Beach. Dwight Brown: A Sunny South Florida Vacation Without the Thongs and Six-Packs
The shoulder seams, and the edges of the neck and hem, are bordered by narrow orphreys, those on the hem decorated with a ladder pattern resembling that on the base and cover.
Not only did it make these already simple buns so easy it bordered on inane (especially since I didn't screw them up even while reeling from a heavy dose of Gravol) but the looooong thaw-out/second rise time (twelve hours total, though it varies with each individual kitchen) just developed the dough's flavour and crumb even more. Two - A - Penny...
On the Garden-side it is bordered by a shadowy, secluded grove, with winding paths among its boskiness, affording many a peep at the river's imperceptible lapse and tranquil gleam; and on the opposite shore stands the priory-church, with its churchyard full of shrubbery and tombstones. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
We finally turned into the entrance of Pirip's compound, a narrow dirt lane bordered by patterns of black stones, scarlet hibiscus, and golden coreopsis.
Fruits cut into the shape of flowers bordered by bright leaves lie appetizingly on their plates.
Shell short, broad robust, sides curved; spire about equal to the mouth; upper whorls nearly flat on the side; suture bordered by a slightly thickened margin; surface marked by a few large rounded revolving lines crossed by irregular lines of growth, so as to produce a semi-cancellate appearance. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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.
Her house is bordered by vegetation of all types—ixoras, palm trees, cactus line her yard.
The Blackfoot is fifty paces in breadth, and is bordered by dense thickets of willow - near the mouth there is a large solitary mound or hill, called the "Blackfoot Butte. Life in the Rocky Mountains
He staggered across the wide path that bordered the pond and plunged into the water.
Two taiaha span the top edge of the painting, while the rest is bordered with red and black koru.
Duval's driving was so bad it bordered on yipping.
This being wore a gown of brocade, dyed bright blue, full-tinted as the gentianella flower, and covered with satin foliage in a large pattern; over the gown a costly shawl, gorgeously bordered, and so large for her, that its many-coloured fringe swept the floor. Villette
Fountains leap up into the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling in crystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs -- then rolling down through channels of marble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones, hypericums, and many-colored ranunculi. New Tabernacle Sermons
A brick wall with a lanterned gate bordered Chase Street. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
In one grouping, each original image appears to be repeated in a three-frame series still bordered by the telltale edging of the 8mm filmstrip.
This was a performance so static that it bordered on catatonia.
The shelled serpentine walks were bordered with low, closely clipped cassina hedges; clusters of white and rose oleander, scarlet geraniums, roses of countless variety, beds of verbena of every hue, and patches of brilliant annuals, all looked up smilingly at him. Beulah
his respect for the law bordered on veneration
Although the DJ thing was so easy it bordered on catatonic, these strapping, earnest first-year university students actually made this cushy job a living hell.
They are rendered in grisaille on a gray ground bordered by a gold strapwork design.
Lips, she added, should be glossed or bordered by lip liner that closely matches the chosen lip colour.
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The gardens are bordered by timber fencing and include a glasshouse and numerous flowerbeds.
Fore wings slightly hooked, with an interior undulating blackish-brown line; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform white, black-bordered, forming a triangular spot and an anterior point; a small exterior white costa, with mark. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
There were peas, and beans, and rows of young turnips, and carrots, and parsnips, all bordered by long straight rows of wheat.
At one point it narrowed dangerously as it bordered the edge of a steep cliff.
The holes created by their mandibles either side of the leaf vein are bordered by scar tissue, producing an unmistakable dumb-bell shape. 'Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years
Location: It is located in southwest Asia, bordered by the Russia to the north, Turkey ad Iraq to the west, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east and Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the south.
The seats are covered with yellow cashmere bordered with black galloons so as to match the description in the Inventory of 1814.
Apparently one cup wasn't cut in the middle of the green, three holes were more than 350 yards, and one fairway was bordered by rough.
The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort.
Ethiopia, [Southern Africa,] close adjoining to which is a small island, called _Conie island_, [Dassen island] all low land, and bordered by many dangerous rocks to seawards. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
It is contiguous to a scrub shrub/emergent wetland and bordered to the east by an evergreen forested wetland complex.
An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice.
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
Furthermore, the United States was bordered by two oceans; it was not only a continent but also a continental island.
Lady Margaret received her with a coldness that bordered upon incivility; irascible by nature and jealous by situation, the appearance of beauty alarmed, and of chearfulness disgusted her. Cecilia
Flowers and a sextet of crepe myrtles bordered her drive and several flower boxes sat on the porch. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
A fiord is a narrow inlet or arm of the sea that runs far inland, and is bordered by high, steep cliffs that reach far below the surface of the water. Undefined
Tombstone could see the silvery arc of one of the Russian's outboard turboprops, could see the markings painted on the backswept wing, a huge red star bordered in white. Carrie
To come along this side of the river, they'd have to cross the Grange fields first---a lot of fields, most bordered with briar ditches. ALL ABOUT LOVE
The Southern Andean Yungas are loosely bordered to the east by the Chaco, and tightly interdigitated to the west with Bolivian Montane Dry Forest, spanning southwestern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. Southern Andean Yungas
He adopted a constructivist interpretation of mathematics which bordered upon formalism, and regarded this as the natural complement to his operationalist philosophy in physics.
All the canals have bridges at stated distances; these bridges are bordered with balustrades of white marble sculptured in basso-relievo. A Philosophical Dictionary
When his opportunity came to seize the party leadership, he proceeded with characteristic single-mindedness that bordered on ruthlessness.
In a nearby field his tomb is a threshing floor bordered by pawpaw trees, sugar cane, sweet potato runners.
We were posted in a grove of beech, on the margin of the lake, and a few hundred feet long, with a narrow _prairillon_ on the inner side, bordered by the rocky ridge. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
Veterinarians worried they bordered on being too thin, an observation that intensified the scrutiny the 26-year-old experienced in each successive checkpoint along the Yukon River to Kaltag, and from there, overland to Unalakleet and then along the coast of Norton Sound. AlaskaDispatch.com: Iditarod Dogs on the Edge
But instead of a grassy playground bordered by tree-lined streets, for use during and after school, the plan now calls for a playground atop a parking garage.
These neoclassical boxes are characterized by the division of the decoration into compartments, with a central medallion bordered by garlands of varicolored gold or enamels, swags, or raised beads.
To the south, west, and east it is bordered by Indian states; to the north lies Tibet.
Outside, the well maintained front garden is lawned and is bordered by a number of flower beds.
The extensive white spotting helps to separate female tragopans from those of other pheasants, and the elongated white central spot on each feather is bordered with black.
The front has a chipped red-bordered door covered with rusted burglarproof mesh. The Kitchen God's wife
You see the problem is that the residence is bordered by palm orchards and small creeks from every direction, so each time the door or a window is opened, swarms of mosquitoes enter attracted by the lights.
The inhabitants of Headington Quarry claimed old-established poachers ' rights on the strip of woodland which bordered the stream. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround.
In terms of religion, Napoleon bordered between deism and atheism.
With three air-force pilots along for the ride, James flew along a railroad track bordered by tall trees.
But I believe his preference was teenage boys, which makes him not a pedophile but at worst an ephebophile (mid to late adolescents) who preferred 16 at the youngest IIRC, and even John Derek bordered on that (each wife was sixteen at the first tryst IIRC). Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Things I Didn’t Know
His stock in trade was a brisk heartiness which at times bordered on the devastatingly brutal.
Lips, she added, should be glossed or bordered by lip liner that closely matches the chosen lip colour.
(buhr-KEE-nuh FAH-soh) Republic in west Africa, formerly called Upper Volta, bordered by Niger to the north and east, Benin on the southeast, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast on the south, and Mali on the west and north. Burkina Faso
The horizon, in all directions, seems to be perpetually bordered by a small jut of land, giving the impression of driving through a bowl.
Eventually, he came to the riverside promenade where a strip of parkland bordered the River Ana.
We drive along Gibson Reservoir Road—a route bordered by brown-eyed Susans and the Sun River—past huge, upended slabs that look as if giants had a rock fight.
It was an open lawn area bordered by a chain-link fence, with dingy picnic tables and a view of train tracks in the distance. My Fair Wedding
As African-descended (including Indo- and Euro-Caribbean) peoples bring their cultures to urban spaces which are heavily policed, bordered, and confined, some interesting frictions emerge when the people break down fences (which occurred at Caribana) to join floats and dance behind enormous trucks with their booming sound systems, insisting on the politics of "bacchanal" (anything goes) and "chaos theory" while resisting the orderly ways of the state. Archive 2007-08-01
Atop his head was a thick mat of dark red hair that bordered on maroon.
From the open ground in the front of the building, their eye could pursue a considerable part of the course of the river Douglas, which approached the town from the south-west, bordered by a line of hills fantastically diversified in their appearance, and in many places covered with copsewood, which descended towards the valley, and formed a part of the tangled and intricate woodland by which the town was surrounded. Castle Dangerous
The road is bordered with large zamang-trees, or mimosas, the trunks of which rise to sixty feet high. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
For many, they have viewed it with suspicion, as though it bordered on the occult.
Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du ChÃ¢teau de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'AnthÃ©ron's Festival 2011
It was a good little gate of white oak slats, built to last, like the old walk of limestone stepping-stones half buried in the sod, bordered with clumps of tansy and catnip and hoarhound, brightened by a great bunch of yellow chrysanthemums, so sheltered here on the southern slope that they were blooming still, like the artichokes that grew higher than her head by a porch corner. The Dollmaker
The mountain is terraced with waves of neatly tended, low, square stones, each one lovingly landscaped and decorated, bordered with bright flowers and green plants.
This wall pattern is then bordered with a lassoed Wild West lacing crafted out of human hair, an element common to her art.
Julie ambled happily down the long immaculate front lawn, bordered on each side by miniature fruit trees.
On they went, and it led them straight to a great open dell, covered with the loveliest flowers, bordered with banks of wild strawberries, and all overshadowed by one enormous oak, whose like had never been seen in grove or forest. Granny's Wonderful Chair
A cloistered walkway bordered the courtyard on three sides, arches supported by white pillars, on each pillar a lamp.
A narrow band of waterside willows is continuous and is bordered on our side by a flat area 20 yards wide, then the floodbank.
Outside, the 18.5 acres of land are divided into 16 acres of permanent pasture bounded to one side by the river Liffey, and two acres of lawned gardens bordered by pine hedges.
We selected a small square of sand bordered by several logs and overhung with a leafy screen and set our bags to the ground.
I am not able to bring upon the stage, a mayor and a group of aldermen, dressed in antique scarlet, bordered with fur, drawing a train of attendants; the meanest of which, even the pinder, is badged with silver: Nor treat my guest with a band of music, in scarlet cloaks with broad laces. An History of Birmingham (1783)
Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize.
The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled, at which times his expression bordered closely on the villainous. Nicholas Nickleby
Here there was a natural beach, bordered by a thin band of scrub: beyond it was the council rubbish dump.
Such was the difference in class that All Stars stroked the ball around with a nonchalance that sometimes bordered on the arrogant.
No, old chap. But bearing in mind that them were which I meantersay of a stunning and outdacious sort, -- alluding to them which bordered on weal-cutlets and dog-fighting, -- a sincere well-wisher would adwise, Pip, their being dropped into your meditations, when you go up stairs to bed. Great Expectations
A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment. Caesars’ Wives
In the pallah the white rump-mark is bordered with black, and the peculiar shape of the horns distinguishes it when seen from the front. Darwinism (1889)
The rear garden, which is lawned and bordered by mature hedging, includes a spacious double garage with a remote control roller shutter and vehicular access.
Oaks, sycamores and beeches dotted well-tended lawns bordered by tarmacked paths and signposted at every junction.
The inundation bordered the road, and just beyond the inundation were the German trenches. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front
Its warmth circled the amply furnished common room it bordered, mixing with the early spring breeze lilting in through the open windows.
If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so.
It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined.
A lean-to mudroom dominated the space, and the yard consisted of concrete and turfgrass bordered by chain-link and wooden fencing. Globe and Mail
The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort.
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
Some wildlife species of high conservation importance, especially butterflies such as pearl-bordered and marsh fritillaries, actually depend for their survival on grazed areas in woodland.
It is a dietary mantra that has bordered on the fanatic: fat is a killer and a clogger and it furs your arteries.
The bailiff, beaming all over, like everyone that day, in a sheepskin bordered with astrachan, came out of the barn, twisting a bit of straw in his hands. Anna Karenina
In a nearby field his tomb is a threshing floor bordered by pawpaw trees, sugar cane, sweet potato runners.
CLETE SAT DOWN at one of the checker-cloth-covered tables in the corner of the restaurant, with a view of the intersection and the dark structural mass of The Shadows looming inside acres of live oaks bordered by a piked fence and walls of bamboo. The Glass Rainbow
Figure 1 shows one central mamillated area, bordered by parts of two other ones.
A large lawn was bordered by crocus clusters, Emperor tulips, jonquils and daffodils. Olivia
Word processing on the Macintosh has always bordered on the realm of page makeup and recent announcements here only serve that view.
Match the artsy underwing of the pearl-bordered fritillary with the breathtaking views from the Morecambe Bay Limestones, just below the Lake District. Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
Ahead, he saw a narrow way, wider than a path, but barely a lane, that bordered an ill-tended pearapple orchard. Ordermaster
Their trainers crunched against loose stones as they ran down a narrow dirt alley, bordered by high wooden fencing.
A large garden bordered by a stud fence surrounds the house.
His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque.
This line was not bordered by any physical crash barrier, but by what looked like a length of cable stuck to the pavement in front of them.
Kó-thlu-ël-lon-ne, now a marsh-bordered lagune situated on the eastern shore of the Colorado Chiquito, about fifteen miles north and west from the pueblo of San Juan, Arizona, and nearly opposite the mouth of the Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45
It marks the longest day of the year and is celebrated with bonfires along the country's lakes, rivers, and fjords (narrow inlets of the sea, bordered by steep cliffs).
In its midst was a fountain adorned with bells and pendants and figures of birds and beasts spouting forth water, and thereby a daïs43 furnished with gold-brocaded silk, bordered or embroidered with jewels: and they found the treasures of the palace past count or description. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The Saloon's doors open onto a terrace and wide lawn bordered by bright flowers.
This shrubby alpine grassland is bordered at lower elevations by montane cloud forest and elfin transitional forest. Cordillera Central páramo
Some of these discussions have bordered on the absurd: as I recounted in my post on the politics of the term 'mommy blogger,' I once had the unique pleasure of debating the question of whether or not the term caucus - as in, should we form a women's caucus in order to have a forum for women's issues in the department? Fights Like a Girl
It is, however, a remarkable coincidence, that in the two large islands cut off by the Beagle Channel from the rest of Tierra del Fuego, one has cliffs composed of matter that may be called stratified alluvium, which front similar ones on the opposite side of the channel, — while the other is exclusively bordered by old crystalline rocks; in the former, called Navarin Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Several cars routinely park outside the Old Dairy building, which is bordered by a wide concreted area that effectively forms a wide pavement on to the road.
black-bordered handkerchief
I sprung forward; and, with a pleasure that bordered upon agony, I embraced his knees, I kissed his hands, I wept over them, but could not speak: while he, now raising his eyes in thankfulness towards heaven, now bowing down his reverend head, and folding me in his arms, could scarce articulate the blessings with which his kind and benevolent heart overflowed. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
Her conduct on assignment bordered on the unethical.
I pushed open the little gate and walked into the dooryard with the neatly mown grass bordered by lilacs and peonies and day lilies…
Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players, Docherty's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty.
Low gnarly clumps of chaparral--manzanita and greasewood, mainly--bordered the old highway.
Not the kind of oozing rot one might find in the depths of some leafy jungle or in a fetid swamp but rather a peculiar kind of desiccation that bordered on fossilisation as if all moisture had been sucked from the sea. Beneath an opal moon
The most expensive were composed of a carved hardstone mounted in gold, with or without enameling, and with push-pieces of moonstone or sapphires bordered by rose diamonds.
What aforetime was a tree-bordered drive, now curved between dead stumps, a mere slushy cartway; the stone pillars, which had marked the entrance, damaged in the rending away of metal with a market value, drooped sideways, ready at a touch to bury themselves in slime. In the Year of Jubilee
It is situated in the eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula and is bordered in the north by the Persian Gulf, in the east by the Gulf of Oman and Oman, and in the south and west by Saudi Arabia. Water profile of United Arab Emirates
In many places the river was bordered with prairies or swampy meadows, on which grew several kinds of fruit, such as mulberries, plums, wild apples, raspberries, and strawberries. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe
Wings with the interior and exterior lines angulose, diffuse, composed of brown speckles; middle line more oblique, straight, slender, double, obsolete towards the costa of the fore wings, bordered with diffuse angular streaks of brown speckles; marginal points deep black. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The structures will be unified by a massive aluminum and zinc roof bordered by a narrow overhang.
Cows and herdsmen alike shun the warm sand of a track bordered with withered sedge, to hide in the shade of an oakwood on a nearby knoll.
From a distance, his digging areas look like plowed fields, bordered by a gleaming expanse of tidal flats.
One of the major constructions at Alta Vista, the Labyrinth, is a sinuous walkway with pillars and turns, bordered by rubblework walls, and believed to have astronomical significance. Hats off to Sombrerete in the state of Zacatecas
Inside the railings was a broad belt of shrubs bordered by a gravel path. Love Eternal
Eventually, he came to the riverside promenade where a strip of parkland bordered the River Ana.
It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined.
Our backyard is bordered by trees and is usually pretty soupy in the spring when the snow melts and the rains start.
He tried to keep his face stone, has he had during the battle, but a slight tinge of compassion bordered his eyes.
Past the fallen barn, the land plunged into a valley of vines bordered by a spring water creek and a wild, thyme-scented garrigue. Bercail - French Word-A-Day
On the valve surface the areolae are grouped together in fascicles bordered by distinct radial lines.
His attitude, moreover, has bordered on the contemptuous; and the blogosphere has chewed him up and spat him out.
Both sexes have orange feet and a blue speculum, or wing-patch, bordered in white on two sides, best seen in flight.

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