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Example sentences for "northerners"

  • The Northerners played so furiously that the ball was kept down near the English goal, which was only saved by the splendid defensive play of their backs.

  • The Northerners in their blue jerseys, with a thistle upon their breasts, were a sturdy, hard-bitten lot, averaging a couple of pounds more in weight than their opponents.

  • Then he greeted Sadie with a breezy cordiality which, for once, disabused her of the notion that Northerners were "stiff and cold" and Southern hospitality at a premium.

  • I know that he has been in the habit of drinking some, but we Southerners don't mind that as much as you Northerners do.

  • And yet Stephens continued to believe that the Northerners did not mean what they said and that in congregated talking lay the magic which would change the world of fact into the world of his own desire.

  • Northerners and Southerners had at once joined issue on their relation in the Union.

  • And even Ernest Renan: how inaccessible to us Northerners does the language of such a Renan appear, in whom every instant the merest touch of religious thrill throws his refined voluptuous and comfortably couching soul off its balance!

  • We Northerners undoubtedly derive our origin from barbarous races, even as regards our talents for religion--we have POOR talents for it.

  • Now some northerners are prospecting for oil.

  • His brother Richard had been wounded and was home on sick leave when the Northerners occupied New Orleans.

  • Sergi is inclined to place the “cradle” of the Northerners on the edge of the Sahara.

  • The Northerners in Congress had learned the trick of bullying from the Southerners.

  • Because it had not flourished in the North there rose a notion that the Northerners would not fight.

  • He attempted, as many other enterprising northerners had done, to give the late slave a chance to prove his worth as a freedman to the world.

  • The factories were for the most part in the North, and soon the Northerners began to clamour for duties on imported goods.

  • In spite of this bill the Northerners were determined that slavery should not be extended.

  • Well, Johnnie, we are thinking of celebrating the 4th of July there," the Northerners would reply.

  • The council decided that they would not wait for the blow to fall upon them from outside, but would forestall the northerners in their own methods.

  • The precautions of the garrison had robbed the northerners of all hope of successfully capturing the pa by assault, and so they sat down to besiege it in the most leisurely fashion.

  • Canoes from far and near brought this host to the appointed rendezvous, the northerners assembling at Otaki and the southerners at Waikanae.

  • We northerners do not take kindly to glare and dust.

  • At Charleston and elsewhere the frame torpedo, which also acted as an obstruction, was largely used, and where this species of mine was known to be laid, the Northerners never attempted to force a passage.

  • To increase the difficulties of the Northerners in searching for submarine mines, the Southerners laid down a great number of dummy torpedoes, also erected false torpedo stations, and laid false wires.

  • Do you think that either we Northerners or you Southerners get anything like an adequate view of the Negro?

  • We Northerners are tired of being estranged from you Southerners.

  • The Northerners have had some respect for the Southerners since then.

  • I have talked with many Northerners who go South, and it is astonishing to see how quickly most of them adopt the Southern point of view.

  • How Northerners Regard the Negro One of the first things that struck me when I began studying race conditions in the North was the position of the better class of white people with regard to the Negro.

  • So after the war was history, there were far-sighted Northerners who said that it would be well to bring that intangible something into the United States army.

  • Folk came over from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and up from Baltimore and Washington, to spend their summers at Atlantic City, and the scientific business-making there created a fashionable season for Northerners from Easter forward.

  • He said he had been chiefly to blame, and the Southerners were so incensed at his losing, the Northerners at his defending, that both were determined to hang him; he was running for his life.

  • We Northerners are sincerely anxious to know what Southern women did and thought at that time, but the difficulty is to find authentic contemporaneous evidence.

  • It will take a brave people to gain us, and that the Northerners undoubtedly are.

  • There are Northerners who are prejudiced against you; but you can find the way to their hearts and consciences through their pockets.

  • There were a good many Northerners on board, and, supposing his slave had run away, they rather enjoyed his perplexity.

  • General Lee will soon give the Northerners some of their own medicine, and before the summer is over will conquer a peace, and then we shall be proud of our share in the sacrifices which so many of our people have made.

  • Because we had agreed to regard Northerners as cowards and boors evidently doesn't make them so.

  • There are a great many bad characters in the country who would make it for some time unsafe for known Union people, and for northerners who may settle down here, to live in this country without the protection of the military.

  • The Northerners seem to surpass the southern Europeans in innate ethical endowment.

  • The Curia still relies on the Northerners being tamed down.

  • I suppose you sketch simply because I suppose northerners can do everything; I shall be fearfully disappointed if they cannot--when I see them.

  • One of the first will be that you live more generously, enjoy yourself more (you northerners don't seem to know how).

  • The singular views of these northerners were apparently endless!

  • It seemed to Reginald Kirby a natural thing (and a small one too) that these northerners should wish to do everything they could for the dying hero in there; at that time the Doctor thought that the clergyman must die.

  • But this would come to an end; these northerners would go away; they would return to their remote homes and Gracias would know them no more.

  • I always hoped to get hold of some northerners to whom I could tell it, tell it in such a way that it would be of use to us, make a background for Garda some time.


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