Limits of achievement

Usage examples of frontiers.

He wore the costume of the Patagonians on the frontiers, consisting of a splendid cloak, ornamented with scarlet arabesques, made of the skins of the guanaco, sewed together with ostrich tendons, and with the silky wool turned up on the edge.

At that distant day there were two great channels of military communication between the inhabited portion of the colony of New York and the frontiers which lay adjacent to the Canadas, -- that by Lakes Champlain and George, and that by means of the Mohawk, Wood Creek, the Oneida, and the rivers we have been describing.

The man that lives in the woods and on the frontiers must take the chances of the things among which he dwells.

Soon after the 55th appeared on the frontiers, Muir had volunteered his services to the enemy.

Provided, that such other ports situated on the frontiers of the United Sates, adjoining the British North American Provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may have extended to them the like privileges on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and proclamation duly made by the President of the United States, specially designating the ports to which the aforesaid privileges are to be extended.

Place before the minds of American statesmen the neutralization of the lakes and ask if the frontiers could not be neutralized also.

I think trying to find out what happened to every owner is fruitless, especially since many of them lived on the Inner and Outer Frontiers, where records are at best incomplete.

The older man led his assistant past those rooms that were devoted to the cultures of the Inner and Outer Frontiers, circled around the complicated maze of interconnected cubicles that had been set aside for the study of the more heavily populated areas of the galaxy, and finally came to the large room that housed the most recently-arrived items from the Spiral Arm.

The throne itself was a large chair constructed from the white bones of the huge polar beasts that stalked the northern frontiers of Asterion.

No incident occurred of any importance during the 2d and 3d of November, and in the evening they reached the boundary of the Pampas, and camped for the night on the frontiers of the province of Buenos Ayres.

At noon they passed the deserted fort of Tapalquem, the first of the chain of forts which defend the southern frontiers from Indian marauders.

It is scarcely sixty-two miles from Cape Bernouilli to the frontiers of Victoria.

The contrast was presented very vividly to the spectators placed between these two countries so divided, and some emotion filled the minds of the travelers, as they contemplated the almost unknown district they were about to traverse right to the frontiers of Victoria.

I dreamed of an army trained to maintain order on frontiers less extended, if necessary, but secure.

Order on the frontiers was nothing if I could not persuade a Jewish peddler and a Greek grocer to live peaceably side by side.