But my mother's sister and her family, who lived closer to the mountain, had a ravishing garden: tall festoons of pinkish-white roses, a long low border of glorious golden tulips, and red dahlias that, even in hot sun, exuded the coolness of velvet.
For reference to a "narrow and long" border wall of the Wu state, see Yue Shi 樂史, ed., Taiping huanyu ji 太平寰宇記 (Taipei: Wenhai chubanshe, 1980) [henceforth TPHYJ], 94.13a.
In the beginning of the 19th century the peripheral system at least in Sweden was deemed unmodern, due to the extremely long border and coastline of the country, which required a lot of personnel to maintain and support, leading to high costs and a neglectance of the more mobile armed forces.
Bill Frelick from Human Rights Watch told the BBC World Service the fence might "divert some of the flow to other locations, but Greece has quite a long border, quite a lot of coastline, so it's an attempt at a quick fix for a problem that really is much more extensive".
Jelena was just about the most beautiful bloomer I saw that day, backlighted by the sun, glowing on the edge of a long border, beneath tall pines.
Sudan and South Sudan share a long border with a number of disputed areas.
The security forces have stationed 30,000 men on the long border, and fortified lengths of it with trenches and concrete barriers.
Kazakhstan is building a fence along 28 miles of its long border with Uzbekistan.
Costa Rica shares a long border with Nicaragua, and bands of contras have in the past set up bases on both sides.
On at least 19 occasions since the start of August, unmanned American aircraft, called Predator drones, have fired missiles at targets on Pakistan's side of its long border with Afghanistan.
