Boundaries

Examples

• Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But however easily we may form these ideas, it is impossible to produce any definition of them, which will fix the precise boundaries betwixt them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That large decayed oak, he said, marks the boundaries over which Front-de-Boeuf claims authority--we are long since far from those of Malvoisin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In that year Cyrus was ruling over an empire that reached from the boundaries of Lydia to Persia and perhaps to India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But in the southeast of this empire, and over the Turkish empire, the boundaries and subjugations of the conquest period still remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The second was the impossible system of boundaries drawn by the diplomatists of Vienna. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The new arrangements do approach this latter more closely than any previous system of boundaries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries; but we saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I shall take the straight road to the river, said Haley, decidedly, after they had come to the boundaries of the estate. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We saw rude piles of stones standing near the roadside, at intervals, and recognized the custom of marking boundaries which obtained in Jacob's time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is impossible, therefore, that the character of natural and unnatural can ever, in any sense, mark the boundaries of vice and virtue. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She had no definite boundaries at all, neither sea nor mountain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was content to keep the Rhine and Danube as its boundaries, and to make no effort to Romanize Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the one hand, science, commerce, and art transcend national boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is permitted to dream in this field, for it is this reaching out into the unknown that plats the boundaries of an extended world, and adds to the possessions of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Europe is still netted in boundaries drawn in the horse and road era. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I do not suppose Mr. Trist had any discretion whatever in regard to boundaries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Under both the Flavians and the Antonines the boundaries of the empire crept forward again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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