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  • They pass freely through mountain passes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier.
    frontier = an international boundary in a relatively unsettled area
  • Anna worried the first wife might hurt her baby, so she returned to her father, where she gave birth to twins, though only one would survive the harsh winter on the frontier.   (source)
    frontier = area that is less developed
  • Instead they had maintained indirect control in the same way the British had, relying on the Pashtun-recruited Frontier Corps rather than regular soldiers.   (source)
    frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled
  • Our new home was one of the oldest buildings in town, Mom proudly told us, with a real frontier quality to it.   (source)
    frontier = wilderness area
  • He holed up alone, reading Zane Grey novels and wishing himself into them, a man and his horse on the frontier, broken off from the world.   (source)
  • Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.   (source)
  • All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.   (source)
    frontier = an international boundary or a wilderness at the edge of a settled area
  • To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics who, nevertheless, were shipping out products of slowly increasing quantity and value.   (source)
    frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled
  • The frontiers between the three super-states are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines.   (source)
    frontiers = international boundaries
  • Ten minutes later they were crossing the frontier that separated civilization from savagery.   (source)
    frontier = boundary
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  • I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.   (source)
    frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled
  • In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground.   (source)
    frontier = national border
  • There was one thing that much aided me in renewing and re-creating the stalwart soldier of the Niagara frontier—the man of true and simple energy.   (source)
    frontier = wilderness area
  • When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.   (source)
    frontiers = international boundaries
  • However, in our Pashtun homeland of the North West Frontier Province things were very different.   (source)
    frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled
  • Trusting Samel and Thompson, veteran Alaskan hunters who've killed many moose and caribou between them, I duly reported McCandless's mistake in the article I wrote for Outside, thereby confirming the opinion of countless readers that McCandless was ridiculously ill prepared, that he had no business heading into any wilderness, let alone into the big-league wilds of the Last Frontier.   (source)
    frontier = wilderness area
  • Some fifty men deserted from the Frontier Corps and another forty-eight were captured and then paraded around.   (source)
    frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled
  • I am inspired by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the man who some call the Frontier Gandhi, who introduced a non-violent philosophy to our culture.   (source)
  • In 1969, the year my father was born, the wali gave up power and we became part of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, which a few years ago changed its name to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.   (source)
  • To try to get people at home to support him, General Zia launched a campaign of Islamization to make us a proper Muslim country with the army as the defenders of our country's ideological as well as geographical frontiers.   (source)
    frontiers = international boundaries
  • This explains the fact that in some places the frontiers between the superstates are arbitrary.   (source)
    frontiers = international boundaries or wilderness areas at the edge of settled areas
  • He seemed actually to see the Eurasian army swarming across the never-broken frontier and pouring down into the tip of Africa like a column of ants.   (source)
    frontier = an international boundary or a wilderness at the edge of a settled area
  • Eastasia, smaller than the others and with a less definite western frontier, comprises China and the countries to the south of it, the Japanese islands and a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet.   (source)
  • The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes.   (source)
    frontiers = international boundaries or wilderness areas at the edge of settled areas
  • It is therefore realized on all sides that however often Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.   (source)
  • Eurasia, for example, could easily conquer the British Isles, which are geographically part of Europe, or on the other hand it would be possible for Oceania to push its frontiers to the Rhine or even to the Vistula.   (source)
  • Between the frontiers of the super-states, and not permanently in the possession of any of them, there lies a rough quadrilateral with its corners at Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong, containing within it about a fifth of the population of the earth.   (source)
  • All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.   (source)
  • The frontiers of Eurasia flow back and forth between the basin of the Congo and the northern shore of the Mediterranean; the islands of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific are constantly being captured and recaptured by Oceania or by Eastasia; in Mongolia the dividing line between Eurasia and Eastasia is never stable; round the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely unihabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even,…   (source)
  • Aye, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.'   (source)
    frontier = national border
  • He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkeyland.   (source)
  • Being practically on the frontier—for the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina—it has had a very stormy existence, and it certainly shows marks of it.   (source)
  • Is it strange that when Arpad and his legions swept through the Hungarian fatherland he found us here when he reached the frontier, that the Honfoglalas was completed there?   (source)
  • And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkeyland.   (source)
  • Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race, that we were proud, that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back?   (source)
    frontiers = international borders or wilderness areas at the edge of settled areas
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  • The company is extending the frontier of driverless cars.
    frontier = the most recent progress in a changing field
  • Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.   (source)
    frontier = rapidly changing area of knowledge
  • …against this instrumental background, a much more than human voice began to warble; now throaty, now from the head, now hollow as a flute, now charged with yearning harmonics, it effortlessly passed from Gaspard's Forster's low record on the very frontiers of musical tone to a trilled bat-note high above the highest C to which (in 1770, at the Ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart) Lucrezia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance.   (source)
    frontiers = most extreme limit
  • The frontier of hope that we all innately pursue will never close.   (source)
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  • The Frontiers of Science†   (source)
  • Whatever the cause, although it took Hitler's troops just five months to march from the Russian frontier to the outskirts of Moscow, they would never pass through the city's gates.†   (source)
  • Then I cleared my throat and said my log-in pass phrase, being careful to enunciate: "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."†   (source)
  • It stood aloof on the Georgia coast—dignified, sedate, refined—looking down its nose at Atlanta, which was then a twenty-year-old frontier town three hundred miles inland.†   (source)
  • Every night the frontier creeps a little closer.†   (source)
  • Why are these suburban-Atlanta kids acting out the ethos of the frontier?†   (source)
  • Five men in frontier leggings and leather shirts sprinted past us, rifles at the ready.†   (source)
  • He was wearing the frontier shirt that James had given him.†   (source)
  • For more information on the laws regarding confidentiality of medical records, and the debate surrounding them, see Lori Andrews's "Medical Genetics: A Legal Frontier;" Confidentiality of Health Records by Herman Schuchman, Leila Foster, Sandra Nye, et al.; M. Siegler, "Confidentiality in Medicine: A Decrepit Concept," New England Journal of Medicine 307, no. 24 (December 9, 1982): 1518–1521; R. M. Gellman, "Prescribing Privacy," North Carolina Law Review 62, no. 255 (January 1984);…†   (source)
  • They send me as far away as possible—the Canadian frontier, can you believe it?†   (source)
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  • It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier.†   (source)
  • The bus unloaded him back across the Rao Suchiate in the rugged frontier town of El Carmen.†   (source)
  • New Frontiers in Dental Health.†   (source)
  • Some of the more rugged artists and artisans spurned the Poets" City and eked out rugged but creative lives in Jacktown or Port Romance, or even in the expanding frontiers beyond, but I stayed.†   (source)
  • That put us due south of the Iranian border seaport of Gavater, where the Pakistan frontier runs down to the ocean.†   (source)
  • The frontier may indeed have closed at last, as Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed in his history-making speech at the fair, but for that moment it stood there glittering in the sun like the track of a spent tear.†   (source)
  • And I want you to feel it-the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier.†   (source)
  • And for a few hours the spirit of the American West fills this funky bar deep in the heart of Saxony, in a town that has seen too much history, and the old dream lives on, the dream of freedom without limits, self-reliance, and a wide-open frontier.†   (source)
  • Now science, which for centuries has derided religion as superstition, must admit that its next big frontier is quite literally the science of faith and belief …. the power of focused conviction and intention.†   (source)
  • Their theories and revolutionary ideas had enormous influence beyond the frontiers of their own countries.†   (source)
  • I made a fine speech about the violation of international frontiers, and habeas corpus and the like; but Chief Justice Robinson was having none of it.†   (source)
  • And now he was circling in the shallows of Dog Beach, on that brave frontier where no dog had dared to poop before.†   (source)
  • "We'll be heading directly for the frontier of Guilder.†   (source)
  • There is a kind of inevitability in it, like it has always been waiting for me, maybe because I relish height while others fear it, or maybe because once you have seen the things that I have seen, there is only one frontier left to explore, and it is above.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, Garden City, which was once a rather raucous frontier town, is quite subdued.†   (source)
  • Fort Hare had been founded in 1916 by Scottish missionaries on the site of what was the largest nineteenth-century frontier fort in the eastern Cape.†   (source)
  • The train stopped at Kaschau, a little town on the Czechoslovak frontier.†   (source)
  • Her frontier policy was to work it out among ourselves.†   (source)
  • The survivors reached the eastern frontier.†   (source)
  • "We've got to protect this frontier.†   (source)
  • "And the place is strategically located, out at the new frontier," he said.†   (source)
  • Until World War II, the United States was disproportionately male, and the frontier was overwhelmingly so.†   (source)
  • The wisdom he harbored was frontier-tested.†   (source)
  • While the presence of Afghan National Army and coalition (predominantly conventional U.S. Army or Marine Corps) forces at these "frontier" outposts was intended to stabilize the regions, they also provided security for regional projects such as building roads, schools, and medical clinics; digging wells; and teaching sustainable farming techniques.†   (source)
  • ""Northwest Frontier Provinces," Mortenson said.†   (source)
  • They seem to be able to live a long time believing, as coastal people do, that they are at the frontier where final exit and total escape are the only journeys left.†   (source)
  • He felt that the Company was too naked, afloat in little open boats in the midst of shelterless lands, and on a river that was the frontier of war.†   (source)
  • Bert turned the great wheel and pointed the White Dragon in the direction of the Frontier.†   (source)
  • But of late she felt the huge remove between her practice in Africa and the frontiers of scientific medicine epitomized by England and America.†   (source)
  • In the evening I went out to a movie, a picture of frontier life with heroic Indian fighting and struggles against flood, storm and forest fire, with the out-numbered settlers winning each engagement; an epic of wagon trains rolling ever westward.†   (source)
  • At a review they demonstrated how, with their long-barreled rifles, a frontier weapon made in Pennsylvania and largely unknown in New England, they could hit a mark seven inches in diameter at a distance of 250 yards, while the ordinary musket was accurate at only 100 yards or so.†   (source)
  • We live in a challenging part of the country-some still refer to it as the frontier.†   (source)
  • Its impenetrable terrain, cave networks, and border with the semi-autonomous Pakistani North-West Frontier Province provide significant advantages for militant groups.†   (source)
  • Ours was no longer a frontier region.†   (source)
  • She was tall and had pretty, if severe, features that reminded Max of a photo he'd once seen of a frontier family.†   (source)
  • The sun touched the peaks of the mountains, drawing a shining circle as a frontier of the valley-when she climbed aboard the plane.†   (source)
  • I am also indebted to the wide range of materials available from Human Rights Watch, Save the Children, CARE, Defence for Children International, the Children's Institute, médecins sans frontiers, Amnesty International, War Child, and other NGOs.†   (source)
  • Language remains a formidable frontier in the legacy of slavery.†   (source)
  • It is redolent of the tawdry decadence of a far-flung but key imperial frontier.†   (source)
  • And all that time the womenfolks and children of Salt Licks would be left in a wild frontier settlement to make out the best they could.†   (source)
  • At times I could overwhelm the Coward and beat him cringing back into the dark interior, but there were other times, when the cadre was in full cry, that he took full possession of the frontier behind my eyes.†   (source)
  • Far away on the northern frontier the mountain giants peered from the dark gateways of their castles.†   (source)
  • Almost every State will be a frontier.†   (source)
  • In his youth on the western frontier, Lincoln was famous for his amazing feats of strength.†   (source)
  • The hard journey from Luskan to the remote frontier settlement known as Ten-Towns had taken them more than three weeks.†   (source)
  • It was as if a slice of the colony had been uprooted and set down on a vast frontier.†   (source)
  • He had moved from Schwinn to Huffy to Frontier Manufacturing Partners to Alan Clay Consulting to sitting at home watching DVDs of the Red Sox winning the Series in '04 and '07.†   (source)
  • Justice on the frontier is swift and sure.†   (source)
  • Mark said, "From the Eastern Sea Frontier.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of technologists, but few original workers extending the frontiers of human knowledge.†   (source)
  • One day, out on maneuvers near the frontiers of Squamuglia, they all vanished without a trace, and shortly afterward the good Duke got poisoned.†   (source)
  • The tradition of the frontier cattleman is as tenderly nurtured in Texas as is the hint of Norman blood in England.†   (source)
  • Louisiana had been a State for less than three years, but outnumbered Americans innovated, outnumbered Americans used the tactics of the frontier to defeat a veteran British force trained in the strategy of the Napoleonic wars.†   (source)
  • She watched him exploring their strange surroundings; watched him drop flat on his stomach, and knew he was Davy Crockett, reconnoitring a new frontier.†   (source)
  • There was all that business at the frontier posts, all that haggling in the forest outside wooden huts that flew strange flags.†   (source)
  • Where we goin?" while their mother, her huge body rolled back still against the seat and her eyes like blue-painted glass, seemed to contemplate for the first time the tremendous frontiers of her true country.†   (source)
  • Frontier background, mostly.†   (source)
  • It was — made out in the name of Alexander Thwaite, travel agent, and filled with visas and frontier stamps—the old, well-fingered passport of the professional traveler.†   (source)
  • This line endlessly stretching into the distance is the frontier of the highest tide.†   (source)
  • But his frontier state was one of the most "radical" in the Union.†   (source)
  • The man was Pan Han, one of the most prominent members of the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • "The Frontiers of Science isn't just a discussion group about fundamental theory, like you claimed.†   (source)
  • He pondered the Frontiers of Science, Shen Yufei, and the computer game she had been playing.†   (source)
  • It was Wei Cheng, the reclusive, mysterious husband of Shen Yufei from the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • For example, the Frontiers of Science and the suicides of those academics.†   (source)
  • Professor Wang, the Frontiers of Science is made up of elite international scholars.†   (source)
  • I will join the Frontiers of Science as you wish.†   (source)
  • The Frontiers of Science is full of famous scholars, and very influential.†   (source)
  • They once invited me to join the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • Some in the Frontiers of Science jokingly called her the Female Hemingway.†   (source)
  • The first focus of our investigation is the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • Finally, he thought of the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • I have no direct connection with the Frontiers of Science, but it is famous in academia.†   (source)
  • The deaths of those physicists had nothing to do with the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • Members of the Frontiers of Science want to attempt a new way of thinking.†   (source)
  • There are no forts, leaving State frontiers unguarded.†   (source)
  • The autumn had already clearly marked the frontiers between the coniferous and the deciduous trees.†   (source)
  • So far as Eric was concerned, Texas and all points west and north of it represented the badlands, lawless frontiers, Colt .†   (source)
  • Coronation Day, June 2, 1953, was to be a day of symbolical hope and rejoicing, in which all the British patriotic loyalties would find a supreme moment of expression: and marvel of marvels, on that very day there arrived the news from distant places-from the frontiers of the old Empire, in fact-that a British team of mountaineers … had reached the supreme remaining earthly objective of exploration and adventure, the top of the world.†   (source)
  • He went on a nine-day drunk, awoke in one of the deeper hive tunnels of Lusus with his military cornlog implant stolen-by someone who apparently had taken a correspondence course in surgery-his universal card and farcaster access revoked, and his head exploring new frontiers of pain.†   (source)
  • In other words, even if the Frontiers of Science influenced them, it was only through legal academic exchanges.†   (source)
  • It was used as a gathering place for the Frontiers of Science, and Wang always thought it resembled a small library with a meeting room.†   (source)
  • "Professor Wang," General Chang said, "we'd like you to accept the invitation and join the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • But he restrained himself and answered, "My contact with the Frontiers of Science began with Shen Yufei.†   (source)
  • Through her, I met a few other physicist friends, all members of the Frontiers of Science, some Chinese, some foreign.†   (source)
  • Your impression is due to the fact that the Frontiers of Science concerns matters far more fundamental than you imagine.†   (source)
  • They should already know that two of the dead never had any contact with the Frontiers of Science, including ….†   (source)
  • He never showed any interest in the Frontiers of Science discussions, but seemed used to the sight of so many scholars coming to their house.†   (source)
  • "Professor Wang, we want to know if you've had any recent contacts with members of the Frontiers of Science," the young cop said.†   (source)
  • When the members of the Frontiers of Science discussed physics, they often used the abbreviation "SF."†   (source)
  • Just the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • According to our investigation, most of the scholars who committed suicide had some connection with the Frontiers of Science, and some were even members.†   (source)
  • Their pink cheeks and group sniggering, their good-girl and bad-girl categories, their avid, fumbling attempts to push back the frontiers of garter belt and brassiere no longer hold my attention.†   (source)
  • All of us gathered around that number and studied it as though it were one of those grotesque totems nailed to trees along perilous frontiers to warn visitors that they were entering a country where none of the natives were friendly.†   (source)
  • But he shared with Washington and Gates a dread fear of the British unleashing Indian war parties on the frontiers, as had the French twenty years before.†   (source)
  • …everybody knew, each in his own community, neighborhood, office or shop and hi his own unidentified terms, who would be the men that would now fail to appear at their posts on some coming morning and would silently vanish in search of unknown frontiers-the men whose faces were tighter than the faces around them, whose eyes were more direct, whose energy was more conscientiously enduring-the men who were now slipping away, one by one, from every corner of the countryof the country which…†   (source)
  • He had long suspected the existence of an extremist movement inside-or on the frontiers of-the Freedom League.†   (source)
  • The ship was leaving the frontiers of the Solar System: the energies that powered the Stardrive were ebbing fast, but they had done their work.†   (source)
  • Along the frontiers that would soon be gone forever the guards had been doubled —but the soldiers eyed each other with a still inarticulate friendliness.†   (source)
  • Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultra-violet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life.†   (source)
  • Adventure, risk, transformation: the frontier is pushing indoors through uncaulked windows.†   (source)
  • Most of them wore cheap felt three-cornered hats and frontier shirts that tied at the collar.†   (source)
  • His eyes fell on a frontier scene: a desolate valley terminating in a snowcapped mountain.†   (source)
  • She must be found dead on the Guilder frontier or we will not be paid the remainder of our fee.†   (source)
  • "She's healthy as you could hope for, a refined lady like her being out here on the frontier.†   (source)
  • Modernity, led by the automobile, was perforating the frontier.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, he was king of the wild frontier," I said, quoting the theme song from the TV show.†   (source)
  • They were hurrying along a mountainous path on the way to the Guilder frontier.†   (source)
  • That's the thing about these Americans on the frontier.†   (source)
  • Since before the Revolution, small military forts on our Western frontier have been necessary.†   (source)
  • No matter what happens, Pennsylvania will be a frontier.†   (source)
  • But how will the territory on our northwestern frontier be handled?†   (source)
  • 22 caliber, lightweight replicas, except in bore, of the big frontier .†   (source)
  • Its people have grown up with my father's songs, for he shaped the Polish popular music scene over several decades — but the western frontier of Poland constituted a barrier to music of that kind.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, independent sentiment now burns as far away as Georgia, as well as the western frontier.†   (source)
  • Five years before to the day, the Germans had launched Operation Barbarossa—the offensive in which more than three million soldiers deployed from Odessa to the Baltic crossed the Russian frontier.†   (source)
  • He even managed to get Nate a frontier shirt, one of the tie-front shirts most of the men in the army wore with pride.†   (source)
  • No frontier had been established yet on the bend in the Vistula, and people came into the city from both sides of the river swearing that they had seen Red army troops with their own eyes in Jabtonna or Garwolin.†   (source)
  • Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning.†   (source)
  • I'm out in my Rabbit worried that Bud's gotten home and not found me or Du, worried that the frontier of madness is closer than I guessed.†   (source)
  • Our briefing, like everything associated with Team 10, was top of the line, a kind of grim educational lecture on what was happening up on the northwest frontier, which divides Afghanistan and Pakistan.†   (source)
  • It was a frontier, especially in India, and no one was staying back to service the goods that were flooding in.†   (source)
  • Straight ahead was the frontier.†   (source)
  • At last in January, two weeks into the new year 1780, the travelers crossed the frontier at St.-Jean-de-Luz and by nightfall arrived at Bayonne.†   (source)
  • She reached it and seconds later walked into the mass of humanity that was a slice of Hong Kong in the new frontier of the colony.†   (source)
  • In the nineteenth century, Fort Beaufort was one of a number of British outposts during the so-called Frontier Wars, in which a steady encroachment of white settlers systematically dispossessed the various Xhosa tribes of their land.†   (source)
  • The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on the Polish territory had been taken in charge by the Gestapo.†   (source)
  • Not violent campaigns waged against a city such as Luskan, or even on the scale of battle against a frontier settlement, like the villages of Ten-Towns, but a less ambitious and more realistic start to his kingdom.†   (source)
  • "This part of Avalon lies on the Frontier," said Bert, gesturing to the thunderheads that lined the horizon.†   (source)
  • But he understood that this was the village of Dasu, in the Kohistan region, the wildest part of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.†   (source)
  • With skill and daring and luck, Cacciato might still slip away and cross the frontier mountains and be gone.†   (source)
  • He could feel that he had done as well as any man could have, given the raw conditions of the frontier.†   (source)
  • But as time went on and the frontier was pushed back there were more Fringes people trying to live on less country.†   (source)
  • BUT JUST AT THE MOMENT she was thinking these thoughts, anticipating her arrival in Addis Ababa …. she found herself suddenly invoking Lord Shiva's name: the plane, the DC-3, the trustworthy camel of the frontier sky, was shuddering as if mortally wounded.†   (source)
  • The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes.†   (source)
  • The first message he received from the government was a threat to shoot Colonel Gerineldo Marquez within forty-eight hours if he did not withdraw with his forces to the eastern frontier.†   (source)
  • Everything in the American experience—each new frontier encountered, geographical, spiritual, technological—has altered our language.†   (source)
  • All the great house of the Passarids he sent to fight giants on the northern frontier till one by one they fell.†   (source)
  • In his time he would become far better known for his battles on America's western frontier and for his friendships with other larger-than-life figures, such as Buffalo Bill Cody.†   (source)
  • When Francisco left, that summer, she thought that his departure was; like the crossing of a frontier which ended his childhood: he was to start college, that fall.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's brain, in which a Nelaton's probe (a long, porcelain, pencil-like instrument) is now being inserted in hopes of finding the bullet, contains vivid memories of a youth spent on the wild American frontier.†   (source)
  • In this atmosphere, a wave of nostalgia for the purity of the West and frontier values swept popular culture.†   (source)
  • Throughoutthe West, frontier regions that had long revolved around the horse were now dotted with sleek, modern Howard dealerships.†   (source)
  • Between Zagreb and the Austrian frontier she lectured Doc on the meaning of doom: assassinations, cities on fire, students swarming through Washington, universities under siege.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 13 "A SMILE SHOULD BE MORE THAN A MEMORY" The Waziris are the largest tribe on the frontier, but their state of civilization is very low.†   (source)
  • "Well he was the king of the frontier," she said, then, pointing at her chest, added, "and I'm the queen of King's Court.†   (source)
  • And then, unaccepted and persecuted for his heritage in city after city in the populated south, he had made his way to the wilderness frontier of Ten-Towns, a melting pot of outcasts, the last outpost of humanity, where he was at least tolerated.†   (source)
  • Call and he had watched through the Fifties as the line of the frontier advanced only to collapse soon after.†   (source)
  • The Frontier had protected the lands herein and had barred passage during the flood to all vessels but our own.†   (source)
  • An itinerant buffalo hunter, Mr. C. J. (Buffalo) Jones, had much to do with its subsequent expansion from a collection of huts and hitching posts into an opulent ranching center with razzle-dazzle saloons, an opera house, and the plushiest hotel anywhere between Kansas City and Denver-in brief, a specimen of frontier fanciness that rivaled a more famous settlement fifty miles east of it, Dodge City.†   (source)
  • Whatever the cause, it persuaded him to Waknuk — then undeveloped, almost frontier country — with all his worldly goods in a train of six wagons, at the age of forty-five.†   (source)
  • Two weeks before the government made the official announcement in a high-sounding proclamation, which promised merciless punishment for those who had started the rebellion, Colonel Aureliano Buendia fell prisoner just as he was about to reach the western frontier disguised as an Indian witch doctor.†   (source)
  • Built on a rocky platform and moated by the winding arc of the Tyume River, Fort Hare was perfectly situated to enable the British to fight the gallant Xhosa warrior Sandile, the last Rharhabe king, who was defeated by the British in one of the final frontier battles in the 1800s.†   (source)
  • We should reach the Cliffs in fifteen minutes more and, with any luck at all, the Guilder frontier at dawn, when she dies.†   (source)
  • Hooch wasn't too sure how old them boys would be now, but old enough they might relish the frontier life.†   (source)
  • Pook's arms were long, but this frontier settlement, in the middle of the most inhospitable and untamed land imaginable, was a longer way still, and Regis was quite content in the security of his new sanctuary.†   (source)
  • What the Government did do, from its comfortable situation far, far to the east, was to express sympathy in encouraging phrases, and suggest the formation of a local militia: a suggestion which, as all able-bodied males had as a matter of course been members of a kind of unofficial militia since frontier days, was felt to amount to disregard of the situation.†   (source)
  • Their Christmas card that year featured a photo of Greg and Tara at the Afghan border, in tribal dress, holding Amira and two AK-47s frontier guards had handed them as a joke.†   (source)
  • What kind of a frontier are we crossing by teaching computers our most fundamental human skill, to speak?†   (source)
  • For all his love of the automobile, Howard was still attracted to the romance of frontier simplicity.†   (source)
  • Act as a rational being and aim at becoming a rallying point for all those who are starved for a voice of integrity-act on your rational values, whether alone in the midst of your enemies, or with a few of your chosen friends, or as the founder of a modest community on the frontier of mankind's rebirth.†   (source)
  • Though he had always been a careful planner, life on the frontier had long ago convinced him of the fragility of plans.†   (source)
  • But to the west, directly in their path, was the darkness they'd earlier assumed to be a line of storms; a sister Frontier to the one that guarded the boundary at Avalon.†   (source)
  • It was strange that three such people had been on the Canadian, but then, that was the frontier--people were always wandering where they had no business being.†   (source)
  • The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier.†   (source)
  • Arthur had the ability to command the dragons—the protectors of the Archipelago and guardians of the Frontier—and also had created a great empire in your world.†   (source)
  • And with the Korphe School all but completed, Mortenson had come to this frontier town straddling the old Grand Trunk Road in his new role as director of the Central Asia Institute.†   (source)
  • Baz Dreisinger, who teaches at Queens College, New York, speaks of "a new racial frontier that shaped American culture and especially American music-- the frontier that optimists call racial hybridity and pessimists call cultural theft."†   (source)
  • Though the wizard was physically the smallest and least imposing man on the merchant caravan that had made the four-hundred mile journey to the frontier settlement of Ten-Towns, Kessell feared him more than any of the others.†   (source)
  • With the regularity of mile markers, white shahid, or "martyr" monuments honored the death of Frontier Works Organization roadbuilders who had perished in their battles with these rock walls.†   (source)
  • Call had known the famous cattleman since the Fifties, and they had ridden together a few times in the Frontier Regiment, before he and Gus were sent to the border.†   (source)
  • If we don't want to be defenseless, we will need to increase our frontier garrisons as our Western settlements increase.†   (source)
  • A myth of what the frontier had been, the Wild West legend, was taking hold in the popular imagination, and it would not be long before people defined Smith by it.†   (source)
  • This reality, often described as the "closing" of the Western frontier, had a huge psychological impact just when Eastern cities were filling up with immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, many of them Catholics and Jews.†   (source)
  • It would be nice to chat regularly with a woman who kept up--though of course it was possible that sixteen years on the frontier had taken the edge off Clara's curiosity.†   (source)
  • The savage tribes on our Western frontier are our enemies, and England and Spain's allies because they have the most to fear from us and the most to hope from them.†   (source)
  • Both the older maps of the Dictionary of American Regional English, based largely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century word use, and the very new Atlas of North American English, created from current pronunciations, present the Ohio River as a linguistic frontier.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit's trainer, a mysterious, virtually mute mustang breaker named Tom Smith, was a refugee from the vanishing frontier, bearing with him generations of lost wisdom about the secrets of horses.†   (source)
  • Frontier Corps guards stood aside as thousands of bearded boys who wore turbans and lined their eyes with dark surma poured over the pass in hundreds of double-cab pickups, carrying Kalashnikovs and Korans.†   (source)
  • He and Call, who had no military rank or standing, weren't welcomed by the Army; with forts all across the northwestern frontier the free-roving Rangers found that they were always interfering with the Army, or else being interfered with.†   (source)
  • One hundred kilometers south of the city they passed into Waziristan, the most untamed of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Provinces, fierce tribal territories that formed a buffer zone between Pakistan and Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Ever since he had materialized at the track from somewhere on the frontier—no one knew exactly where—none of the racetrackers had known what to make of him.†   (source)
  • He decorated in frontier art, pored over western magazines, listened to Gene Autry on the phonograph, and motored around town in a blindingly os-tentatious hot rod Studebaker roadster with a bug boy riding shotgun.†   (source)
  • And they drove back the fierce giants (quite a different sort from Giant Rumblebuffin) on the north of Narnia when these ventured across the frontier.†   (source)
  • But we have suffered much loss in our battles with Saruman the traitor, and we must still think of our frontier to the north and east, as his own tidings make clear.†   (source)
  • And we gave those troublesome giants on the frontier such a good beating last summer that they pay us tribute now.†   (source)
  • His enormous eyes, lambent, extravagantly lashed, smiled out at her wickedly: she looked around him for reflectors, microphones, camera cabling, but there was only himself and a debonair bottle of French Beaujolais, which he claimed to've smuggled last year into California, this rollicking lawbreaker, past the frontier guards.†   (source)
  • Then he had transferred to buses and finally to Daulat's trucks: in spite of wars, bad roads and worn-out vehicles, Daulat, a man of our community, maintained a trucking service between our town and the eastern frontier.†   (source)
  • The Dutch frontier guard at the airport just nodded and stamped it for form's sake—Peters was three or four behind him in the queue and took no interest in the formalities.†   (source)
  • But a hardy youth on the Tennessee frontier had nottaught Thomas Hart Benton how to avoid a fight, whether with wild beasts, neighbors or politicians.†   (source)
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  • Gram said), and we stayed at the Old Faithful Inn in a Frontier Cabin.   (source)
    frontier = proper noun
  • Gram and Gramps were both still awake in our Frontier Cabin on the edge of Yellowstone National Park.   (source)
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