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Examples
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At the Seven Years End, thinking the Matter might be forgot, he came into England, and being a North-country
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“Father Abbot,” replied the English knight, “although it is rash to make myself responsible for a North-country man in these times, yet I own I do consider you as one who has ever been faithfully subject to the King of England, and I willingly hope that you will still continue so.”
Castle Dangerous 2008
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Thus, being very pretty and merry, she grew up as a North-country farmer's daughter; and the old man, as she needed more looking after, grew older and less able to take care of her; so she was, in fact, very nearly her own mistress, and did pretty much in all things as she liked.
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Thus, being very pretty and merry, she grew up as a North-country farmer's daughter; and the old man, as she needed more looking after, grew older and less able to take care of her; so she was, in fact, very nearly her own mistress, and did pretty much in all things as she liked.
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The harsh voice, the blunt manner, the habit of accompanying certain phrases by an emphatic nod of the head, the Northumbrian burr expressing itself in every word which contained the letter “r” — all these personal peculiarities of the old North-country governess were reproduced to the life.
No Name 2003
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She dropped the blind which she had raised to look out, returned to her trunk, and took from it the gray wig which was part of her dramatic costume in the character of the North-country lady.
No Name 2003
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A trace of her girlhood's accent had come back, I noticed, to mix quite kindly with the familiar North-country lilt.
Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997
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A trace of her girlhood's accent had come back, I noticed, to mix quite kindly with the familiar North-country lilt.
Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997
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North-country apprentices, whose indentures bore a 14s. stamp in accordance with Scottish law, were pressed because that document did not bear a 15s. stamp according to English law.
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Apprentices, exempt from impressment only in some circumstances, in North-country pressed because their indentures bore Scotch 14s. stamp instead of English 15s.,
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