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New-Englanders, many of them, appear to take pleasure in insisting that they came of a race of narrow-minded, persecuting bigots.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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New-Englanders, though, after they have weighed any case of suffering in their own minds, they would do quite as much to relieve it.
Hurrah for New England! The Virginia Boy's Vacation Louisa C. Tuthill
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Cosmos into which we hungry New-Englanders are wont to thrust our wits.
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Davis, who had been fondled by New-Englanders but a year or two since, and Hunter, who had cried for peace and compromise, standing forth at last in the true light of traitors, and thereby proclaiming their past life a game of hypocrisy.
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They are in one of Wordsworth's glorious "Sonnets to Liberty" (the sixteenth), and belong to _us_, and not to the New-Englanders.
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Yet let this estate be temporary; for it is well to return to our thin diet, and, instead of jolly after-dinner talk, repeat the high and aspiring phrases of certain New-Englanders who lead the generous thought and life of a continent.
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They have really what the New-Englanders call "beautiful manners."
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New-Englanders, of opposite sex, young, unmarried, are pretty far gone, when they begin morally to reprobate each other.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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I am inclined to pronounce, also, that the two Georgians were by birth New-Englanders.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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The "travelling merchants" of this country were generally what their customers called "Yankees" -- that is, New-Englanders, or descendants of the puritans, whether born east of the Hudson or not.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel
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