Crossword-Solution: LISI 4 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Cependant, puisque le sol ne cessait de monter, il y avait lieu de s'élever vers la lisière de la forêt, qui fut atteinte à trois heures de l'après-midi.

Vingt-cinq pas à peine le séparaient de la lisière du bois, et, pendant cette halte d'un instant, il avait gagné cent cinquante pas sur ses adversaires.

Moreover, while both words signify a well-defined edge, _lisière_ has a sense--special enough to be noted in dictionaries--of the looser-planted border of trees and shrubs which almost literally "fringes" a regular forest.

Not content with occupying the splendid possessions of the United States through the not famous, but infamous, Oregon Treaty, Canada, upon the discovery of gold in the Cassiar district of British Columbia, brought up the question of the _lisière_, or thirty-mile strip.

Russia, however, insisted upon having her _lisière_ run to the Portland Canal, declaring that the possession of Wales Island, without a slice (portion) of territory upon the coast situated in front of that island, could be of no utility whatever to Russia; that any establishment formed upon said island, or upon the surrounding islands, would find itself, as it were, flanked by the English establishments on the mainland, and completely at the mercy of these latter.