The northerner often thought that it was a crop made by forced labor and that no freeman would willingly perform such labor; the southerner believed that the negro would neglect the crop too much when not under strict supervision.
The live oak with its small oval leaves, without a cleft in the plain margins, looks like anything but an oak to the Northerner who walks along a street planted with this evergreen in Richmond or New Orleans.
The persimmon will never be forgotten by the Northerner who chances to visit his Virginia cousins in the early autumn.
And good fare it is, too, and wonderful to behold—to a northernerunaccustomed to such luxuriance.
The coca leaf is highly prized by the native as a stimulant; he chews it as a Northerner would chew tobacco but with a better excuse, since by its use he can perform great feats of endurance and go many hours without food.
And he liked his present demand (though by no means the manner of it); the Northerner was taking the proper course, he had taken it promptly.
But the stranger and northerner was gazing at the southern flowers with an interest which did not appear to depend at all upon the southern girl who had brought him thither.
I am a northerner certainly; and it's my custom," he answered.
Upon this occasion, after his introduction, he offered to the northerner with courtesy several well-turned sentences as the beginning of an acquaintance, and then they all walked on together up the old road.
However, his genuine fondness for Garda induced him to waive ceremony, and he prepared to follow the northerner who, with a courteous bow to the others, was turning to leave the room.
He then came down to earth again, and folding his arms, surveyed the northerner challengingly.
It might mean--and then again it might not mean--he confessed to himself that he had not the least idea what interpretation to give it, he had never really understood this northerner at all.
But you're really a northerner after all, Mrs. Thorne; and so it didn't seem so unlikely.
In the meantime, the young Northerner had become as radical in his sympathies with the Southern people as his father had ever been against them.
Besides being so bow-legged that his walk was a moving joke he was so striking a negro in his personal appearance, he seemed to the young Northerner almost a distinct type of man.
During the day I was visited by a young northerner who had been for some time in New Orleans, but was very anxious to return to his home in Massachusetts.
Another companion is John Cranston, a Northernerwho had also lived in Frankfort, where he had often been compared to Goethe in his youth.
Northerner or Southerner, the belligerents received the same tending from him.
The Negroes themselves cannot be expected to distinguish between the Northerner North and the Northerner South, nor to reflect that the wise man howls with the wolves, and very naturally feel themselves the victims of gross injustice.
Equally Semitic is the overthrown Northerner on the other side of this well-known monument which we are describing; he is being trampled under the hoofs and gored by the horns of a bull, who, like the hawk, symbolizes the king.
On it we see the same subject of the overthrowing of a Northerner (of Semitic aspect) by the royal bull.
A northerner cannot visit this cemetery, and read the familiar names of the multitudes who have ended their lives in this pestilential climate, without experiencing emotions of the most affecting nature.
A Northerner willing to side against a Northern state!
Such unbelievable heresy from a Northerner or a Negro would have been natural; but from a Southerner whose father had owned five hundred slaves--it was incredible!
I'm going to be frightened into submission to a Northerner you're very much mistaken!
He enclosed also an account of a "horrible military reprisal" by the Federals in Missouri alleging that ten Southerners had been executed because of one Northerner seized by Southern guerillas.
Even before the war it had been difficult for a Northerner to obtain entrance to that sacrosanct circle; the exceptions were due to sheer personality.
Serve Howard Talbot right for marrying a woman twenty years younger than himself and a Northerner to boot.
A Northerner might, indeed, honestly think the Southern cause just and coercion of the seceding States immoral.
There is a grandeur in the vast forests of the south, of which a northerner can form no adequate conception.
He treats with suitable allowance those peculiarities of their race, which the unpractisednortherner will construe into idleness, obstinacy, laziness, revenge, or hatred.
Of such forest-riding the northerner knows nothing, unless his lore in tales of Italian banditti may have enabled him to form some idea of scenes with which his own country refuses to gratify him.
Of this state of feeling, which a southern life and education can only give, the northerner knows nothing.
A northerner looks upon a band of negroes, as upon so many men.
All alleged emphatically that the question was simply of the Union, and upon this issue no Northerner could safely differ from his neighbors.
Now Early saw that the prize had slipped through his fingers actually as they closed upon it, and so bitter was his disappointment that--since he was disappointed--even a Northerner can almost afford him sympathy.
Her mother had been a Northerner slave; her father, a native freeman, a wheelwright.
Behind her stood her other five children, her two sons by the Duke, her daughter by a visiting prince, her son by the captain of a Northerner ship, her daughter by a temple sculptor.
At this instant an old negro came up the steps with an armful of wood, and the eye of the Northerner noted (was forced to note) the contrast.
This time the Northerner had no questions to ask--nay, he almost hung his head, so ashamed was he of the reputation that had attached itself to the field of his labors.
Travel in the Border and Southern States will acquaint a Northerner with strange customs.
The air is full of the flying lint, and forcibly reminds a Northerner of a New England snow-storm.
At a distance a cotton-field ready for the pickers forcibly reminds a Northerner of an expanse covered with snow.
In South Carolina, few beside the negroes will welcome the Northerner with open arms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "northerner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
