I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a border dispute (= about where the border between two countries is )
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a border dispute between Argentina and Chile
border guards
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We were stopped by border guards .
border on/upon obsession (= be almost as extreme as an obsession )
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Sometimes his tidiness bordered on obsession.
closed...borders (= will not let foreigners in )
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The country has now closed its borders to all foreign nationals .
coastal/border/central etc region
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Flooding is likely in some coastal regions of the Northeast during the early part of the week.
herbaceous border
opens...borders
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The peace treaty promises an end to war and opens the borders between the two countries.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
eastern
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The bad dream had been there all the time, of course, up in the jungles on the eastern border .
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On his eastern border , Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.
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For the eastern border of the Saxons was the River Elbe, and that too was an artery of Saxon communication.
herbaceous
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Planted in groups, the massed effect is quite stunning and rivals any massed Herbaceous border for elegance and appeal.
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It has pretty herbaceous borders and an attractive paved herb garden, where on fine mornings breakfast is served.
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He complimented the King upon his herbaceous borders , but otherwise was uneasy.
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Gardens laid out on different levels with herbaceous borders , lakes, water gardens, old hedges and lawns.
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But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border .
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Notable gardens of great variety, including fine old cedars and specimen trees, herbaceous borders , water and wild gardens.
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Spring garden, daffodils, fritillaries, rhododendrons, old-fashioned roses, herbaceous borders .
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Useful for June/July flowering in the herbaceous border .
national
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At the moment supervision of these shipments in most countries stops at the national border .
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But that definition is based less on linguistics than on politics: the countries are divided by national borders .
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By eliminating import taxes, or tariffs, and other import restrictions at national borders .
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But who was counting when the performances often seemed to transcend national borders ?
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Despite that, the experts said security at nuclear facilities there is weak and there are few controls at national borders .
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Flows of capital, goods and services, and increasingly of human talent, now transcend national borders .
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While this chapter has focused on moving products back and forth across national borders , some one has to pay for them.
northern
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All three cities were founded by the ancient Romans along the northern border of the Empire.
open
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This, it argues, would minimise the risk of fraud that open borders would generate.
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Still, my pure tones on abortion, plus my attacks on open borders and open trade, squeezed Gramm out.
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During a day of extraordinary jubilation, more than 100,000 people poured through the increasingly open border to the West.
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I want an open border , as you do.
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Stock Exchange rallies strongly in response to open border .
southern
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The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family.
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With a peaceful and stable southern border , Begin felt free to concentrate on his northern front.
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What Buchanan is saying is that people who cross the southern border are enemies.
■ NOUN
area
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The armed forces are said to have sent an extra 2,000 troops to the border area , bringing the total to 3,500.
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On Friday, Maskhadov charged that more such groups are planning armed attacks in border areas before the balloting.
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So far, more than 2,000 bodies picked up in the border area have been sent back to their families.
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Ministers in border areas suffered most.
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Here we were in a dangerous border area , and our campsite was vitally indefensible, but we could find none better.
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While it deals mainly with the Arizona border area , much is obviously applicable elsewhere.
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About 100,000 live secretly in the border area .
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As we now know, the border areas were attacked by B-52s for months during 1969.
city
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Modest chain-link fences have existed for some time in the border cities of El Paso and Brownsville, Texas.
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Citizens advisory groups have been set up in border cities .
control
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The president beefs up the border controls and institutes checks against the employment of illegal immigrants.
crossing
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Other agreements were concluded concerning border crossings , agricultural, scientific and cultural co-operation, recognition of educational qualifications and road transport.
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The two cities also are trying to make their united voice felt in the planning of border crossings .
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Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
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Naturalization Service inspectors search for drugs at border crossings in the Southwest.
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Border Patrol officials say the tactic discourages illegal border crossings .
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Besides limiting legal immigrants, it would address the problem of an estimated 300, 000 illegal border crossings each year.
dispute
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Presumably a similar border dispute lay behind Aethelbald's attack on Northumbrian territory in 740.
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Officials were at pains to point out that it was focused on resolving border disputes and promoting trade.
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Outstanding differences on the border dispute between the two countries failed, however, to be resolved decisively.
guard
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It takes only an hour to drive from Gaza to Jerusalem, if you don't have to endure obstructive border guards .
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His adversaries include still more cossacks, a border guard or two, a rabbi, and a pugilist.
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Here, a border guard and two customs officers, all in uniform, came aboard to inspect our documents.
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Certainly he had bribed more border guards and Communist officials than he could remember.
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The bikes were, technically, contraband, but the border guards turned a blind eye.
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Last November, after bribing the border guards , she crossed the frozen Tumen with her blind daughter.
patrol
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They must have been a border patrol .
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The mood is relaxed, and two border patrol officers chat across the fence.
post
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McCready had watched him enter the corridor between the two border posts , then lost sight of him.
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The border post formalities are quickly completed.
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But yesterday at the Hendaye border post , near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.
region
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Members of its executive council have been collecting signatures in the border region .
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However, subsequent days saw mutual accusations of firing on the border region .
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To the east lay border regions - Berry and Auvergne - where even the Duke's nominal suzerainty was at times doubtful.
town
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Local republicans say that until recently all attacks on the line occurred on the South Armagh side of the border town .
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And many of those truckers obviously felt it was their right to deliver goods to points far beyond the border town .
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Government and allied forces claimed to have stemmed rebel attacks on the border towns by the end of the month.
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Already, wages in the border town are higher than inside the country.
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We continue via the breathtaking Arlberg pass and arrive at the border town of Kufstein.
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A reporter and an editor in the border town of Matamoros are confronted by gunmen while walking to work.
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We were to switch trains in Chulwon, which was two train stations before the border town of Tongdu-chon.
■ VERB
close
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Neighbouring countries have closed their borders .
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Instead, we latch on to shortsighted, shallow solutions, like closing our borders and becoming isolationists.
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Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open, at least for a time?
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Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?
cross
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She had crossed the border soon after liberation by herself to check out the situation.
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We cross the border once or twice a week.
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Few of the tourists crossing the border at San Ysidro ever see it.
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The two fugitives continue to cross borders .
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It seems to me a good term, generous and open and suggestive of a willingness to cross established borders .
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Some might say growth would have been still faster if trade and capital had been allowed to cross borders more easily.
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As we crossed the border , the chatter began once again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
border/military/customs/police post
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Administrative offices and on-campus police posts were damaged by stones and petrol bombs in three Tunis University faculties.
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But yesterday at the Hendaye border post , near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.
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Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts .
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However, he formally accepted the appointment on April 7 after resigning his military posts .
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In reality guerrilla action was largely indiscriminate with sporadic attacks on the occasional landlord, local official, or police post .
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The border post formalities are quickly completed.
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This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands.
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When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a skirt with a red border
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As soon as we crossed the border we began to see signs of poverty.
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Fighting in border disputes has killed at least 25 people.
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Iraq had put thousands of troops along its border with Kuwait.
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Isn't Manto near the Italian border ?
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It is a mountainous region, occupying a large area near the border with Nepal.
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Jeumont is a small town on the French-Belgian border .
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Jill wants to plant a border of flowers around the lawn.
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Refugees have been warned not to attempt to cross the border .
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Samantha was wearing a knee-length skirt with a green border .
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Strasbourg is very close to the German border .
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The army's main task was to patrol the border regions.
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The tablecloth had a brightly patterned border .
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The talks were held in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, on the border with the US.
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The town lies on the border between Chile and Argentina.
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The two presidents met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute.
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They escaped across the border into Thailand.
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We spent the night in, a miserable little border town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had spotted another lay-by, beyond Jena, just before the link road to the autobahn back to the border .
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It is the United States that has suffered from millions of impoverished, illegal aliens coming across the lengthy border .
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Last night we camped a metre short of the border , a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes.
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They are constantly having to negotiate borders and deal with difference.
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To the east lay border regions - Berry and Auvergne - where even the Duke's nominal suzerainty was at times doubtful.
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Workers refuse to hire on for less, because cost of living is higher on the border than farther south.
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You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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They drove into a shaded parking area bordered by willows on one side and tall pines on the other.
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With expressions such as these, we are obviously approaching another transitional area bordering on idiom.
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A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.
country
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Effluent from industrial activities in countries bordering the sea is also causing various pollution hazards.
river
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All this lowland country was covered in thick bush, and large trees bordered the river and streams.
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Not so long ago, little-traveled S.R. 46 cut through pleasant countryside bordering the Wekiva River .
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He had recently bought a huge house there with a garden which bordered on the river , directly opposite Botolph's Wharf.
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In Modesto, evacuees from a neighborhood bordering the Tuolomne River returned home and found that the landscape no longer made sense.
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The large garden is bordered by two rivers .
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Infected bittersweet, a weed found along river banks, has been picked up bordering the River Ouse.
road
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The hedges bordering the roads are valuable from a conservation standpoint.
state
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Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf.
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Travel Trivia: Only four states individually border just two other states.
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The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.
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In a recent Travel Trivia, we listed Rhode Island as one of the states that borders two others.
■ VERB
cross
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The Worlds Edge Mountains are extremely tall and almost impossible to cross where they border the Empire.
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The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Azerbaijan borders the Caspian Sea.
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France borders Spain along the length of the Pyrenees.
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The Black Sea borders a half-dozen countries.
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Willow trees bordered the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He staggered across the wide path that bordered the pond and plunged into the water.
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It looks an exquisite mess, but push through the vegetation bordering the path and the undergrowth clears.
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Jackson went to the road that bordered the gardens on the left.
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Sometimes, the censorship bordered on the absurd.
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They did so for complex reasons that border on the religious, not the ambitious.
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With three air-force pilots along for the ride, James flew along a railroad track bordered by tall trees.