debateable

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Well, some of us, of whom I was one, fetched a compass and crossed the water that runneth through Upmeads by the Red Bridge, and so gat us into the Wood Debateable through the Uplands.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

The Armstrongs appear to have been, at an early period, in possession of great part of Liddesdale, and of the Debateable Land.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Right—I was misled by some trick of my memory—Roland Graeme, from the Debateable Land.—Roland, thou knowest the duties which belong to a lady's service?"

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

Or the noise of a drive of the Dead Streaming before the irresistible Will Through the strange dusk of this, the Debateable Land Between their place and ours?

From The Song of the Sword and Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest

"No," replied Roland, "my name is Graeme, so please you—Roland Graeme, whose forbears were designated of Heathergill, in the Debateable Land."

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir