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Michael Straczynski once remarked that the quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
But bearing in mind that them were which I meantersay of a stunning and outdacious sort,-alluding to them which bordered on weal-cutlets and dog-fighting,-a sincere well-wisher would adwise, Pip, their being dropped into your meditations, when you go up stairs to bed.
Bordered on the east by New York's fabled skid row, the Bowery, and on the south by Little Italy, it still has something of the flavor of a faded ethnic neighborhood, with Italian butchers and windowless social clubs and old people sitting out on card chairs on the sidewalk.
It also noted "an incredibly sloppy organisation in one of the wealthiest cities in the world's richest country," which it said "bordered on the ludicrous.
The Post covers the corruption angle too, but also has some discouraging information on the personal searches Customs conducts: Whereas ten to fifteen years ago, the hit rates on these searches bordered on 100 percent, of the 2,076 passengers who had to take off part of their clothing for a Customs inspection in fiscal 98, only 21 percent were found to be carrying illegal drugs.
Until the recent land reclamation for new housing developments, these Malay, Chinese, and Tamil Indian eating places bordered on the seafront, but the cuisine (the most notable dish being the spicy mee hoon noodles) has not changed.
Consisting of 86,208 hectares (213,020 acres), it is bordered on two sides by the Atlantic Ocean and the Guadalquivir River as it winds its way down from Sevilla to reach the ocean at Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
He was also, by the terms of the treaty, at liberty to make war on the nations of the Upper Syrian coast, for we find him reducing the Tahai, who bordered on Cilicia, without any disturbance of his relations with Mautenar.
There were, first, the Tânauna, in whom it is usual to see either the Danai of the Peloponnese, so celebrated in Homer, or the Daunii of south-eastern Italy, who bordered on the Iapyges, secondly, the Tekaru, or Teucrians, a well-known people of the Troad, thirdly, the Uashasha, who are identified with the Oscans or Ausones, neighbours of the Daunians, and fourthly, the Purusata, whom some explain as the Pelasgi, and others as the Philistines.
The man took his shield and sword, and walked along the narrow path, bordered on each side by high grass and bamboo.
The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it.
On a Summer's Day as he strolled forth with these his faithful Attendants, and rambled into a Park whose Gate he saw open, he perceived in a little Copse that bordered on a Fishpond, a Stranger seated on a Bench of Turf.
I saw my Friend, my Father, the Man I loved above the World, I saw him in a Depth of Distress that bordered on Distraction, and I found my Heart wrung with inexpressible Anguish.
As my Concern bordered on my Brother's Estate, we saw one another every Day, and continued, for several Years, in strait and tender Amity.
Bougainville mentions it as a singular circumstance, that the practice of painting the body has always prevailed among the people of all countries, at the time when they bordered on a state of nature: it is, indeed, a well known fact, that the ancient Britons were found stained with wood, when Julius Caesar made his first descent on this island.
FROM a regard to what is necessary in war, nations inclined to popular or aristocratical government, have had recourse to establishments that bordered on monarchy.
They are persuaded, that the celebrated ardour, [Page 384] generosity, and fortitude, of former ages, bordered on frenzy, or were the mere effects of necessity, on men who had not the means of enjoying their ease, or their pleasure.
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