The morning was sufficiently bright to make the chairs and sofas in Lady Otway's private sitting-room appear more than usually shabby, and the gallant gentlemen, her brothers and cousins, who had defended the Empire and left their bones on many frontiers, looked at the world through a film of yellow which the morning light seemed to have drawn across their photographs.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The month of April has nearly passed away, and we are fast approaching that poetical day, which was considered, in old times, as the boundary that parted the frontiers of winter and summer.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Some of the scientific frontiers in the region of liturgies are as illusory as his was.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington