Meanings of very confines in English

What a subject of meditation-evento the very confines of madness.

We had come back from the very confines of destruction.

The husband is vain, boastful, dishonest to the very confines of the law, and a drunkard.

And for these thoughts and experiences of which you speak, their very confines and approaches lift us out of the world.

Her whole being was inexpressibly thrilled; and, forgetting her frightful vision, her enraptured soul hovered on the very confines of fabled elysium.

Still under his vow, he set out again at once to the very confines of Pannonia determined to kill a Turk for her.

Moreover, another caravan, laden with colonial produce, and on its way to Galicia, must be on the very confines of the enemy's land.

The gates of heaven are not closed against these unhappy beings; but their inferiority is continued to the very confines of the other world.

How could she know that behind his halting sentences a paean of love was threatening to burst the very confines of his inarticulate soul?

Hunters have gone away in disgust, leaving none but the most intrepid and indefatigable, who now penetrate to the very confines of the American continent.

These monarchs were now on the very confines of France, ready to enter upon a bloody war, and that was the fault of the king!

"Engineer Robur," said Uncle Prudent, "we are now on the very confines of America!