If you were to ask her questions now she'd be in a state bordering on hysteria within ten minutes.

But I sank into a corner of the compartment in a state bordering upon collapse.

Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf.

Shirley, herself, sits with eyes closed in a state bordering on ecstasy.

"Tell me what it all means," said I, in a state bordering on hysterics.

Charles de Marigny had worked himself up into a state bordering on frenzy.

It was also used by other rulers whose states bordered the Empire or were within its sphere of influence.

And this dissolution is accomplished in a state bordering on panic.

I'm ashamed to admit it but I spent the last few days in a state bordering on euphoria.

The initial shock absorbed, he was in a state bordering on euphoria.