frontiers

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Seven years before, Webster had said, in the famous words that Massachusetts binds as frontlets between her eyes, "There are Boston and Concord, and Lexington and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever."

From Public Speaking by Winter, Irvah Lester

And I approached the green before the gateway, and saw two youths with curling auburn hair, clad richly in garments of yellow satin, with frontlets of gold upon their forehead.

From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Gilbert, Henry

He who said, “There are five frontlets, so as to add to the words of the scribes?”

From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius

The helmets, glancing mail, short skirts, and bare legs of the Romans contrasted refreshingly with the blossoming garments, effeminate girdles, frontlets, and horned blue bonnets of the priesthood.

From Mary Magdalen by Saltus, Edgar

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann