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Example sentences for "southern"

Lexicographically close words:
southeasterly; southeastern; southeastward; southerly; southermost; southernmost; southernwood; southing; southmost; southpaw
  1. As the strife grew more severe, complaints grew, and finally the Southern merchants drew up a list of Northern merchants with whom they would have no dealings.

  2. Even Mr. Gladstone had expressed his conviction that the success of the Southern States, so far at least as regarded their separation from the North was concerned, was "as certain as any event yet future and contingent, could be.

  3. Southern born, I had been taught to make a negro respect me, and even in my menial position I could not suffer myself to be bulldozed.

  4. Once while tramping in Southern Portugal I saw a little donkey about the size of a mastiff, plodding along with two cages of chickens on either side and a woman and her babe comfortably seated on the donkey's back en route to market.

  5. I secured my hundred, and two days later I was on a Southern Pacific sleeper bound for my home back in dear old North Carolina.

  6. It is not all this alone which makes it unlikely that the Southern planter should desire to free his slaves: freedom in America is not merely a personal right, it involves a political privilege.

  7. Of these, however, the southern ladies appear to have, at present, no very positive idea.

  8. This theory fits in well with the native account of the distribution of the Malay race, which makes Menangkabau, in Southern Sumatra, the centre whence they spread over the Malayan islands and peninsula.

  9. Towards the close of 1763, the Sultan of Sulu added to his cession the northern portion of Borneo and the southern half of Palawan, together with all the intermediate islands.

  10. I thought of that deserted Southern garden as I followed my own New England road.

  11. The height was still in brightness, but the gulches below were wine-red and on their rims the spruces stood shadow-straight against the golden ivory of the southern sky.

  12. Harpoon heads at Point Barrow are probably never ornamented with the "circles and dots," so common on other implements and on the harpoons of the southern Eskimo.

  13. The absence of this utensil among the southern Eskimo of Alaska is probably due to the fact that being inhabitants of a well wooded district they would have no need of contrivances for cooking over a lamp.

  14. They do not appear to be in the habit of using the canoe for a tent, as is said to be the custom among the more southern natives,[N445] as they always carry a tent with them on their journeys.

  15. N427] He mentions seeing at Iglulik a "small round basket composed of grass in precisely the same manner as those constructed by the Tibboo, in the southern part of Fezzan, and agreeing with them also in its shape.

  16. The best of our human figures from Point Barrow show much greater art, both in workmanship and design, than those just mentioned, but can not compare with the elegant figures in the museum from the more southern parts of Alaska.

  17. The more southern Eskimo of Alaska are in the habit of using in their dances very elaborate and highly ornamented and painted masks, of which the National Museum possesses a very large collection.

  18. Turner informs me that such is the case at Ungava Bay on the southern shore of Hudson Strait, where they use a very long net set under the ice very much as at Point Barrow.

  19. It is not unlikely that this boat itself came from that region through the "Nunatanmiun," unless, possibly, a southern kaiak had passed through the hands of enough people to reach a point where some Point Barrow native might see it.

  20. The Southern type, which was the only form used from the island of Kadiak to Cape Romanzoff, and continued in frequent use as far as Norton Sound, though separated by no hard and fast line from II.

  21. N138] This house really has a fireplace in the middle, and in this approaches the houses of the southern Eskimo of Alaska.

  22. This utensil closely resembles a great number of specimens in the Museum from the more southern parts of Alaska.

  23. I have none of the kid-skin of which your Southern books are made.

  24. It was back in the tenth century, when the mighty fair-haired warriors of Norway and Sweden and Denmark, whom the people of Southern Europe called the Northmen, were becoming known and dreaded throughout the world.

  25. She came of an old Southern family, and her life had been a sheltered one till she met and married Jack Sumner.

  26. He led the way to the southern tip of the plateau; no great distance--from edge to edge the tableland was no more than three hundred yards across.

  27. For a week or ten days I fidgeted about the sleepy Southern village, and then I bade my uncle an abrupt good-bye and started for St. Louis.

  28. Your feelings may be with the slave,--so are mine, so are those of most of the Southern people.

  29. Raymond was to assault the southern wall; Godfrey himself the northern; and between them the two Roberts and Tancred were to be stationed.

  30. The Visigoths first conquered and took possession of the southern part of the country.

  31. It is noticeable that children of the Southern Italians grow larger than their parents, and would grow better than they, if in the changed environment love would supply what chance or fate has denied them.

  32. I know something of the horrors of Southern Italian prisons, and I could well believe that three such years would ripen rebellious thoughts into desperate ones.

  33. I went to Guinea Hill because I am partly responsible for the presence there of some of these Southern Slavs.

  34. Some of the Southern Slavs had marched up in the scale of social life; had become machinists, petty foremen and taskmasters over their own kinsmen.

  35. The whole Southern Slavic group remains politically ineffective because of the dissimilarities of the Cyrilian and Latin alphabets and all that their difference is made to imply.

  36. The train came closer and closer to the walls of that ancient town, and on its southern side we saw again the holes in the wall, swarms of little children, a gray, tired donkey and picturesque dirt and confusion.

  37. All this is equally true of the Eastern and Southern Slavs who, with but few exceptions, belong to the Greek Orthodox church, and are cast in a religious mold as fixed as the form of the Byzantine icon, the symbol of that church.

  38. While traveling through the southern part of Maine a few years ago, I was struck by the symmetry and beauty of a tract of Evergreen Trees and remarked that they would make good Christmas trees.

  39. They are regularly met with on the banks of the Blue and White Nile, and in the deserts of central and Southern Africa they are of common occurrence.

  40. RANGE--All over central and southern Africa from the western to the eastern coast, and as far north as the 20th degree of northern latitude.

  41. It is found on the coast ranges of southern California from Monterey Bay southward into Lower California.

  42. RANGE--Coast ranges of southern California from Monterey Bay southward into Lower California; formerly north to Frazer River.

  43. This Lion is distributed all over Central and Southern Africa.

  44. The raising of Silkworms in the United States has been attempted with success in the Southern States, and especially in California.

  45. The Southern and Western German is sentimental and generous; the Prussian is sour and dour, and only believes in hard fact.

  46. What a progress those Hohenzollerns have made from the distant days when they left their little Swabian southern home of Zollern between the Neckar and the Upper Danube, the cradle of their dynasty!

  47. The Southern and Western German is gay and genial, courteous and expansive; the Prussian is sullen, reserved, and aggressive.

  48. The Southern and Western German is proud of his romantic history, of his ancient culture; the Prussian has no culture to be proud of.

  49. The Southern and Western German is an idealist; the Prussian is a realist and a materialist, a stern rationalist, who always keeps his eye on the main chance.

  50. We are near the southern boundary of Montana, and still in the limestone and granite formations.

  51. It is thus seen that soil-pollution from fecal material is a most dangerous thing, and, particularly in the southern portion of the United States, deserves the most earnest consideration of everyone.

  52. Okra is much prized in the Southern States as the principal ingredient of a very palatable soup, but is not as a rule looked upon with favor by the uninitiated.

  53. The two species of poisonous colubrine serpents already referred to are known respectively as the Elaps fulvius, and the Elaps euryxanthus, both of which occur in the southern portions of the United States.

  54. Fortunately, the coral-snakes are only found in the extreme southern portion of the United States, live under ground for the most part, and are rarely encountered.

  55. This serpent is found from Florida and Illinois to southern Massachusetts; also in parts of Texas.

  56. But in vain he sought along the southern horizon for the cloud of soft white smoke of which Maisrie had often spoken; the distant Niagara was frozen motionless and mute.

  57. It is supposed by a Greek colony that landed on the shores of Southern Italy, and there founded cities and built temples at least six hundred years before the Christian era.

  58. On one side all the slopes are covered with vines, which are placed on this southern exposure to ripen in the sun; on the other is the lake, with the mountains beyond.

  59. Italy was their adopted country, and it is fit that they sleep in its sunny clime, beneath a southern sky.

  60. Not only vineyards and olive groves cover the southern slopes, but palm trees grow in the open air.

  61. A sunny little corner on a southern slope smiled up at me, and seemed to offer itself as a delightful situation for the diminutive garden which mine must be.

  62. He will indicate the means by which it corrupted the Southern heart and Southern brain, so that at last the elemental principles of morals and religion were boldly denied, and the people came to "believe a lie.

  63. The "Gulf States" and others followed its example, not so much from any fixed intention of forming a Southern Confederacy as for the purpose of intimidating the Free States into compliance with the extreme demands of the South.

  64. Of the plot of the "Tragedy of Errors" we have only space to say that the writer has cut a channel for very delicate verses through the heart of a Southern plantation.

  65. All this was done with the idea that the Northern "Democracy" would rally to the support of their "Southern brethren.

  66. Herman's series of pictures called Illustrations of German History, which gained great praise in Southern Germany some two years since, are now being engraved on steel at Munich, and will soon be published.

  67. At the close of the second year he was attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, and advised to try a southern climate for the winter.

  68. James, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

  69. An ideal Southern gentleman of the old school,--courteous, as honorable and open as the day, and as brave as a lion.

  70. Suddenly courage returned to her, the courage which made Spartans of Southern women.

  71. Do you see the Southern delegates rising in their seats?

  72. For it was a bold man who expressed radical opinions (provided they were not Southern opinions) in a St. Louis street car early in '61.

  73. Not to pay was to tarnish the name of a Southern gentleman.

  74. I wasn't going to give any other mill in New England or any of those southern concerns a chance to walk off with it--not on your life!

  75. It was an open secret that the Governor of Missouri held out his arms to Jefferson Davis, just elected President of the new Southern Confederacy.

  76. Aunt Mary was a Puritan of Southern ancestry, and her father had been a Presbyterian minister, Uncle Tom was a member of the vestry of a church still under Puritan influences.

  77. Old St. Louis has changed from a pleasant Southern town to a bustling city, and a high building stands on the site of that wide and hospitable home of Colonel Carvel.

  78. That is the red flash far across the black Southern sky.

  79. But what d'ye think of him for a real Southern gentleman?

  80. Eben lives on a southern spur, next to Amos Cuthbert, where you can look off for forty miles across the billowy mountains of the west.

  81. No, this weakling lets Floyd stock the Southern arsenals.

  82. You gentlemen from the southern colonies are too well nourished, by far," says he; "you are apt to be large of chest and limb.

  83. Tostig and Hardrada think he is away at the southern shore, watching for Duke William of Normandy.

  84. He was needed to defend the southern counties of England, and, especially, to prevent the speedy capture of London by the Normans.

  85. It may be that even then King Harold was aware of the terrible truth, that the landing of the Normans had already begun at Pevensey, on the southern coast, only three days after the battle of Stamford bridge.

  86. Perhaps not a man who saw them march away could have believed what a fate was waiting for them on the southern shore of the land they were going to defend.

  87. The Saxon king was to be forced to defend the northern and southern ends of his kingdom at the same time, and there was no fairness in it.

  88. A messenger came from London to the king, to-day, to tell him that the fleet of Duke William of Normandy hath been seen off the southern coast.

  89. And she gave you such an alluring description of Berlin that you are anxious to fold your tent and fly back to Bellevue Street now, in the midst of this wondrous Southern spring?

  90. Erika turned away from her grandmother, and gazed out of the window into the broad Southern sunlight, until black specks danced before her eyes.

  91. He was standing for the southern division of his county in the following spring when the present member was going to retire, and he was vehement in his views and clear as to the course he meant to take.

  92. Lady Merton, pointing to the fine promontory of purple piny rock which jutted out in front of the glacier on the southern side of the lake.

  93. He had been studying Baedeker, and he made intelligent travellers' remarks on the subject of Southern Saskatchewan.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southwest; west; westerly; western


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    southern continent; southern latitude