He walked out into the debatable ground between the two forces.

They were miles from Khoruk, in the midst of a region that had become a bloody debatable ground through slaughter on both sides.

But there were many lucrative functions which occupied a debatable ground between the two officers and which John Price, the Attorney, tried to annex.

Go to war with your spells, but this is still debatable ground and there are human wolves as well as those strange menaces you have better knowledge of.

With the dawn of day it could be seen that the Boers held the southern and we the northern slopes, while the narrow plateau between formed a bloody debatable ground.

The western and southern borders remained debatable ground ("Archenfield") until, with the incorporation of the Welsh Marches in 1535, considerable territory was annexed to Herefordshire.

The Debatable Lands, also known as Debatable ground, batable ground or thriep lands, was land lying between Scotland and England, formerly in question to which it belonged, when they were distinct kingdoms.

Kansas supporters gave ground reluctantly: a major celebration was held at the Republic County site in 1933, and as late as 1947, an article in the Kansas Historical Quarterly spoke of the issue as "debatable ground".