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Northerner

noun

An inhabitant of the North.

An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War). Synonyms: Yank, Yankee.

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"Northerner" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Northerner grew stiff and as his face grew pale the red mark where the stone had struck his forehead stood out like a ...

— Riders of the Silences • Max Brand

... the wrong station and in his confusion is arrested by the local marshal as a Russian diamond robber. He telegraphs to the Cabells, and Brook rescues him at the point of the revolver, though he knows that the Northerner is ...

— Short Story Writing - A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story • Charles Raymond Barrett

... with the North during our Civil War. He once wrote to me: "I am old enough to remember vividly your great war, and was then much with an American friend—a very clever lawyer named George Bemis—whom I came to know very well at Rome.... I was myself a decided Northerner, but the 'right of revolution' was always rather a stumbling block." Talking with Mr. Lecky in 1895, not long after the judgment of the United States Supreme Court that the income tax was unconstitutional, he expressed ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

... and a friend went up, because they feared burnings. They sat there almost all night. Parties of men would come along and they would plead with them. One sat in one doorway and the other in the building next. Mrs. Blakely was a Southerner, the other woman a Northerner. Between them they kept the buildings from being burned: saved their own homes thereby and possibly the life ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

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