Southron

Think: Chinese-owned GM plants in Brazil selling Chevy-badged cars that undercut the noble Southron plants that Dick Shelby loves so much.

Matthew Yglesias » Toyota Idling 2009

It is cold in Chicago, believe me, and the Southron who comes here, as I did, without a relay of noses and ears will have reason to regret his mistaken economy in arranging his outfit.

storytelling 2009

For all we know Chiles had no idea what this ment — but as Jeb Bush struggled to pretend like he knew what these words of Southron wisdom were and not to be seen as an outsider, everyone then realized, evidently, how little he knew about FL.

Matthew Yglesias » Ten Years Later 2007

“The recreant goes to betray us to the Southron,” he said;

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

As the Southron formed their long ranks into lines, each man occupying his place as by magic, and preparing to cover themselves by large shields, called pavesses, which they planted before them, I again felt a strange breathlessness, and some desire to go home for a glass of distilled waters.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

French fashion of imping, which the Southron call graffing.

The Abbot 2008

Besides all this, the Douglas hath left Perth to march against the Southron, who, men say, are called into the marches by the false Earl of March.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

I was mair beholden to ae Southron, and that was Stawarth

The Monastery 2008

He was a rare fellow before a Southron bill laid his brain pan bare; but since that time he talks gibberish whenever the cup has crossed his lips.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

This is a time when the subjects in all countries rise against the law: we have heard of the insurgents of the Jacquerie in France; and of Jack Straw, and Hob Miller, and Parson Ball, among the Southron; and we may be sure there is fuel enough to catch such a flame, were it spreading to our frontiers.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008