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Southern

adjective

In or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line. "Southern cooking" , "Southern plantations"

Situated in or oriented toward the south. Synonym: southerly. "Took a southerly course"

Situated in or coming from regions of the south. "Southern constellations"

From the south; used especially of wind. Synonym: southerly. "Southern breezes" , "The winds are southerly"

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"Southern" Quotes from Famous Books

... Excellency—and was the portrait of his most illustrious father. And the old man lowered his eyes, while Paul looked out of the window, and thrilled all over. Circumstances made things very difficult for Madame to leave the southern country where she was at present, but she had a very strong desire to see the Excellency again—if such meeting could ...

— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn

... each of which showed less promise of decisive importance than the last. The centre of gravity shifted to the north, where preparations on a vast scale were pushed forward for the main attack in Flanders, which opened on 31st July. Accordingly, the southern sector in which the Battalion remained, settled down into a normal period ...

— The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) • Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell

... beautiful. The fresh sea air and the southern sun had been as kind to her as to one of their own daughters. Only a very faint, delicate shade of pink had stained her clear, transparent skin, harmonising exquisitely with the slight olive hue of her complexion. The strong breeze had loosened the coils of her dark ...

— A Monk of Cruta • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... longer thought of; it was their work on deck. The fishing lines had been drawn in, and all hurried to make sail and some to seek for shelter in the fjords, while yet others preferred to round the southern point of Iceland, finding it safer to stand for the open sea, with the free space about them, and run before the stern wind. They could still see each other a while: here and there, above the trough of ...

— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti

... her way to her favourite seat at the end of a long, straight path, bordered on each side by square-cut hedges of yew. On the north side the great bush had grown to a height of eight or ten feet, with a width almost as great; on the southern side the hedge was kept trimmed to a level of four feet, to allow a view of the sloping park. For two hundred yards the path lay straight as a die between those grand old hedges; occasionally a peacock strutted proudly along its length, ...

— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

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