borderer

How To Use borderer In A Sentence

• Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in “Waverley,” were the characters he delighted in. Waverley
• He probably expected me to spring from the ground with the activity which these Borderers have, by constant practice, acquired in everything relating to horsemanship; but as I stood irresolute, he extended his hand, and grasping mine, bid me place my foot on the toe of his boot, and thus raised me in a trice to the croupe of his horse. Redgauntlet
• It was a fine home for a borderer—no bastle house, but still, a large cottage. Tempted by Your Touch
• They were a borderer people of Rome, sometimes inside the borders and sometimes outside. Languagehat.com: SUIOGOTHIC.
• The fforest is for II. or III. myles vpon the skirts soe exceedingly wasted, as well by the inhabitants as other the borderers adiacent, that yt is grief to see soe many goodly trees to be spoiled, the vse whereof hath bene such as yt hath converted the tymber trees to Dotards, and that almost generally vpon the borders of the same fforest. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
• The Scottish borderers played a major role both as chief landowners and as undertenants during the plantation of Ulster under James the First.
• Sir Walter Scott may be the father of the historical novel but on this evidence his fellow borderer, Michael Scott, was a man ahead of his time.
• This was a well deserved victory but Tipperary borderers ensured that it was hard earned: both sides can take credit for an admirable display with honest endeavour, courage and some excellent football on show.
• In the far north, at least, they were driven to suggest that the borderers were not really civil Englishmen at all.
• Eldest son of the earl of Northumberland, Percy was first appointed sole warden of the east march in 1385; Scottish borderers were soon calling him ‘Haatspore’.