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• To the north are the sand-hills of the Aissinboine, where stiff spruce trees stand like sentinels on the red sand; but no tiny seedling had ever been brought to the school-yard, no kind hand had ever sought to relieve that desolate grayness, bleak and lonely as a rainy midnight in a deserted house Inside, the walls are dull with age, so dark and smoked you would think they could become no darker shade, but on the ceiling above the long stovepipe that runs from the stove at the door to the chimney at the other end, there runs a darker streak still. —  The Second Chance
• The springtide of the north is pale with the gentle colourless sweetness of its world of primroses; the springtide of Italy is rainbow-hued, like the profusion of anemones that laugh with it in every hue of glory under every ancient wall and beside every hill-fed stream Spring in the north is a child that wakes from dreams of death; spring in the south is a child that wakes from dreams of love. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• But the main lines to the north were the river highways: from Marseilles up the Rhone to Lyons and down the Seine to Paris and Rouen; from Venice through the passes of the Alps to the great southern German cities of Augsburg and Nuremburg, and thence northward along the Elbe to the Hanse towns of Hamburg or Lubec; or from Milan across the St. Gothard to Basle and westward into France at Chalons. —  Beginnings of the American People
• Further north is a Baptist chapel, with two noticeable pointed towers and a central wheel window. —  Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London
• "About forty-five miles, they say; very bad travelling; all mountains, but ten miles to the north is a road that runs straight there Then we had better follow that, Meinik. —  On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War

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