What is "marchland"

Usage examples of "marchland".

Right now it was called, variously, Mitanni, Hanigalibat, the River Country, and God-knew-what, and it had been a marchland between Assyria and the Hittite Empire.

Truthfully, I am waiting for Marchland to come and maintain his customary vigil, the police-drama surveillance he obviously took to heart back in the academy.

During the trial of the new century I learned that Marchland slept with my future wife pretty much their entire senior year in high school.

When Marchland arrives he shuts off his engine and sits there until I begin to wonder if he will actually climb out and confront whatever it is I have in mind.

That if only I pushed enough buttons Marchland would explode like Krakatoa, put a bullet in my brain?

He had the accent of a man born and bred in the east among the free farmers, those who had settled in the marchlands in exchange for land of their own and the protection of the king.

Eagle alone through the marchlands while the Quman ride where they will and we hide here behind our walls?

In the marchlands, imposters sometimes ride into villages and claim to be clerics, or lords, or heathen sorcerers with the power to make birds talk and the rivers run with gold.

Sanglant and his troops spent three weeks following the meandering trail of Prince Bayan and Princess Sapientia as it wound through the marchlands of Ol-satia, Austra, and Eastfall.

East of Wendar lie the marchlands and farther eastI see there is nothing marked here.

Ungrian retainers, Lord Wichman, the Polenie duke Boleslas, Hrodik and Druthmar, Brigida with her levies from Avaria, a lady from Fesse, and several nobles from the marchlands who had joined to avenge the damage done to their lands by the Quman.

Somehow, in the space of one night, they had traveled from the marchlands all the way to the center of Wendar.

Saony, the highlands far to the south of Avaria, and the distant marchlands to the east.

Wendar and Varre and the marchlands and more time after that to march them all the way to Gent.

Better not to think of the Quman invasion of the marchlands and eastern Wendar that had caught her in its net.