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Example sentences for "the south"

  • The sun shone brightly as our friends turned their faces toward the Land of the South.

  • It is the same at the South," said another, "for I have been there and seen it.

  • My axe may be of service to her; so I also will go with her to the Land of the South.

  • The South is the country of the Quadlings.

  • The road is straight to the South," he answered, "but it is said to be full of dangers to travelers.

  • I had very strangely supposed, while in slavery, that few of the comforts, and scarcely any of the luxuries, of life were enjoyed at the north, compared with what were enjoyed by the slaveholders of the south.

  • It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south.

  • On the south side of the churchyard lies an ancient stone, ridged like a coffin, on which is carved a man on horseback; and another man with a shield encountering a vast winged serpent, and a man bearing a shield behind him.

  • That he was an arrant poltroon mattered very little, as his cowardice only set of his charms.

  • The union was null and void therefore the deliberate murder was neither high nor petty treason.

  • It is curious to think that at the present moment there is probably no human being nearer to us than the Danish settlements in the south of Greenland--a good nine hundred miles as the crow flies.

  • I think if it were not for her that I should care very little whether the wind blew from the north or the south to-morrow.

  • The wind is veering round to the south to-night.

  • The pack which was forming to the south of us has partly cleared away, and the water is so warm as to lead me to believe that we are lying in one of those branches of the gulf-stream which run up between Greenland and Spitzbergen.

  • To the south there is the narrow lane of blue water which is our sole means of escape, and which is closing up every day.

  • Your sister is an amiable creature; but yours is the character of decision and firmness, I see.

  • Charles, you had much better go back and change the box for Tuesday.

  • The tempest still raged with undiminished fury; but the wind now returned to the south-east.

  • The last Sioux were disappearing in the south, along the banks of Republican River.

  • The barometer announced a speedy change, the mercury rising and falling capriciously; the sea also, in the south-east, raised long surges which indicated a tempest.

  • If a ship got through the reefs, and weathered the Merry Men, it would be to come ashore on the south coast of Aros, in Sandag Bay, where so many dismal things befell our family, as I propose to tell.

  • Now I should say that the great run of tide at the south-west end of Aros exercises a perturbing influence round all the coast.

  • Lang syne, when I was a callant in the south country, I mind there was an auld, bald bogle in the Peewie Moss.

  • However, tens of millions of villagers, particularly in the south, have not benefited from the green revolution and live in abject poverty.

  • Here the main force of the current was flung back toward the south shore, and the result of our paddling was that we crossed the current where it was swiftest and narrowest.

  • Well to the west of our caves was a great swamp, but to the south lay a stretch of low, rocky hills.

  • On the south bank, where the river had broken its way through the hills, we found many sand-stone caves.

  • From subsequent events, I am led to believe that she must have travelled far to the south, across a range of mountains and down to the banks of a strange river, away from any of her kind.

  • At Charleston he became acquainted with the Rev.

  • Many told him that he would never come out of that place alive.

  • Nor did he, amidst all his labors, feel his health much impaired.

  • Many footsteps of Providence have been visible in beginning and carrying it on.

  • Born a Provencal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of the south.

  • The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south.

  • Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without taking it.

  • During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the South.

  • The general distribution of the buildings may be thus described:-The church, with its cloister to the south, occupies the centre of a quadrangular area, about 430 feet square.

  • From some local reasons, however, the cloister and monastic buildings are placed on the north, instead, as is far more commonly the case, on the south of the church.

  • Those eyes were of the changing foam-streaked grey-green of leaping Northern seas; in the glass shone a hot ruby that seemed the very heart of the South, beating for him who had courage to respond to its pulsation.

  • Ah, yes, the call of the South, of the South!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    later page; lord over; the beginning; the language; the length; the tents; the west; thee only; thee what; then added; then brown; then commanded; then fell; then found; then indeed; then known; then make; then perhaps; then presently; then proceeds; then ready for use; then shall they know; then took; thence will; there and; these birds