south-country

• “THIS I know, however, very well-that if I COULD go and be with you for a week or two in such a quiet south-country house, and with such kind people as you describe, I should like it much.”

  The Life of Charlotte Bronte

• “In the west, a rising of the south-country Scots, under the command of Lord Kenmure, was projected; whilst in Northumberland the”

  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.

• “Aweel, he was a bog-louper, and wild, wild at that, but he fell in wi 'some south-country lady -- a cousin o' his ain, that stopped for years at Scaurdale -- a young thing that was feart to haud the man, but fond o 'him too.”

  The McBrides A Romance of Arran

• “A south-country version (Dr. Chambers tells) differs a little, and represents Janet as "at the Well," instead of upstairs, and afterwards”

  Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

• “She stood up, a glow of amber brightness above all the black coats, and spoke of her gratification, of her work at Ansdore and hopes for south-country farming.”

  Joanna Godden

• “It may be added that, while “Krindlesyke” is not in dialect, it has been flavoured with a sprinkling of local words; but as these are, for the most part, words expressive of emotion, rather than words conveying information, the sense of them should be easily gathered even by the south-country reader.”

  Krindlesyke

• “While ‘Krindlesyke’ is not in dialect, it has been flavoured with a sprinkling of local words; but as these are, for the most part, words expressive of emotion, rather than words conveying information, the sense of them should be easily gathered even by the south-country reader.”

  Krindlesyke

• “What is worse, it means in many cases Edinburgh men reporting themselves at Aldershot, and south-country men reporting themselves in the north.”

  The Message

• “Hinksey, after still more varied adventures, ends up in the hands of the Berties, obscure south-country people who date from a rich”

  The Historic Thames

• “If not of the finest degree of intellect, Stoner was far from being a fool, and it had not taken him very long to explain to himself why Cotherstone had scribbled the name of that far-off south-country town all over that sheet of paper, aimlessly, apparently without reason, amidst his figurings.”

  The Borough Treasurer

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