History has always been "a debatable land," as Macaulay noted.

If that were true, the sooner he and the others were away from this debatable land the better.

The debatable lands, on the other hand, were long a hideaway for criminals.

Canonbie was the main population centre within the debatable lands.

Only I think that here we are well past that debatable land and no moon magic will come to my calling.

Thereafter things became very confused, particularly with regard to the area known as the 'Debatable Land', which both countries claimed.

It is but a few years since this valley was a place choked with jungle, the debatable land and battle-ground of cannibals.

"Parts of me," he once wrote, "have shouted the slogan of the Elliotts in the debatable land."

It was known as the Debatable Lands and neither monarch's writ was heeded.

They launched frequent raids on farms and settlements outside the Debatable Lands, the profits enabling them to become major landowners.