Did not this seem to border upon cruelty, my dear, in so indulgent a mother?

"I shall have to retreat over the border as quickly as I can," he continued.

All along the Afghan border every man's house is his castle.

The man, trained so long in border war, was thoroughly in his element.

You're not fra Wales or the border counties, zur, that be very clear.'

The escape, if the Captain's story were true, appeared to border upon the miraculous.

He had taken a position as a teacher in Sutschoufu, on the border of Shantung.

Poe could indeed do it, although he hovered at times near the border of insanity.

So we rattled through Surrey and across the border into Sussex.

Another case of border superstition is related to me by McWhorter.