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• This may be called the northern-democratic position. —  History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)
• The head of the runaway kite was thrown forward, and it came wavering down in eccentric gyrations, while the sledge gradually lost way, and came to a standstill not fifty yards from the berg Up to this point what may be termed the northern island-ice continued unbroken, but beyond the berg it was broken up into floes, and, not six hundred yards out, it tailed away to the southward in what whalers term stream-ice. —  The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
• On the northern is the "Propyleum of Xerxes," but most distinguished here is the "Great Hall" of Xerxes, called Chehly Minor by way of eminence. —  Modern Persia
• On our left rose a succession of heights, beyond which appeared the summits of the ridge of lofty mountains which runs down the centre of the island, dividing it longitudinally into two parts, of which, however, the northern is the largest, most fertile, and best known. —  James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
• The state is divided into four tiers--northern, southern, eastern, and western--and a banner goes to the county in each division which has rolled up the greatest increase. —  Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York

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