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Next, the shape and position of the parts is such, that they all seem put into those very shapes they are in by a gravitating power: For first, there are but very few clifts, or very steep declivities in the ascent of these Mountains; for besides those Mountains, which are by Hevelius call'd the Apennine Mountains, and some other, which seem to border on the Seas of the Moon, and those only upon one side, as is common also in those Hills that are here on the Earth; there are very few that seem to have very steep ascents, but, for the most part, they are made very round, and much resemble the make of the Hills and Mountains also of the Earth; this may be partly perceived by the Hills incompassing this Vale, which I have here describ'd; and as on the Earth also, the middlemost of these Hills seems the highest, so is it obvious also, through a good Telescope, in those of the Moon; the Vales also in many are much shap'd like those of the Earth, and I am apt to think, that could we look upon the Earth from the Moon, with a good Telescope, we might easily enough perceive its surface to be very much like that of the Moon.
They border on hallucination.
In the Anglo-Saxon dress of the earlier period, the mantle is a simple square with a border on the outer side, the two upper corners being gathered together at the shoulders and fastened with brooches connected by a chain.
Vajpayee, who crossed the Indo-Pakistani border on a bus this weekend to meet with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
The Daily Telegraph said Saturday in an editorial that some of the report's conclusions "border on the insane," such as one recommending criminal prosecution of "offences involving racist language or behavior where such conduct can be proved to have taken place otherwise than in a public place.
This time China was confident that such gestures, which border on the insulting, were not necessary for the banquets at Buckingham Palace and the Elysee presidential palace.
Terms which border on the vulgar tend to be onomatopoeic: examples include chuggie, duffs, dubs, biffy, honk , and thunderbox .
In border communities where aliens travel back and forth across the border on a daily basis, legal services offices would have to require their clients -- who may be illiterate -- to keep a daily log to account for their movements.
Beautiful beaches run in a virtually unbroken sweep from Porto all the way up to the Galician (Spanish) border on the River Minho.
The eastern battle line shown by the blue line on the large map, as the Austro-German, Russian, lying for the most part, in what was formerly Russian territory, and extending from the Gulf of Riga on the north to the Rumanian border on the south-with this length of line are included several great areas on which the great campaigns of this front have been fought.
Perhaps the borders of royalty may become sacred, as well as the borders of treason criminal; and as every placeman, pensioner, and minister, may be said to border on the court, a kind of sanctity may be communicated to his character, and he that lampoons or opposes him, may border upon treason.
The tents of the wild Arab are even now pitched among the ruins of magnificent cities; and the waste fields which border on Palestine and Syria, are perhaps become again the nursery of infant nations.
Suppose we were to read a passage to this effect. "The river Danube rises in a moist and mountainous soil in the heart of Germany, where winding too and fro it waters several principalities, until turning into Austria and leaving the walls of Vienna it passes into Hungary; there with a vast flood augmented by the Saave and the Drave it quits Christendom, and rolling through the barbarous countries which border on Tartary, it enters by many mouths into the Black sea." In this description many things are mentioned, as mountains, rivers, cities, the sea, &c.
The parts of Mauritania which border on the Great Desert and the Atlantic Ocean, were filled with a fierce and untractable race of men, whose savage temper had been exasperated, rather than reclaimed, by their dread of the Roman arms.
The high lands that border on the Indian Ocean are distinguished by their superior plenty of wood and water; the air is more temperate, the fruits are more delicious, the animals and the human race more numerous: the fertility of the soil invites and rewards the toil of the husbandman; and the peculiar gifts of frankincense [6] and coffee have attracted in different ages the merchants of the world.
Is it, that, as one Extreme is said to border on another, extreme Joy treads on the Heels of extreme Sorrow? We may admit of a moral influence; but there must be nothing, that should in the smallest degree border on compulsion.
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