Mason-Dixon linein a sentence
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She escaped and traveled north across the Mason-Dixon line.
Mason-Dixon line = dividing line between the North and the South prior to the American Civil War
- After much dispute, the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania (the Mason-Dixon line) was finally surveyed and marked with large, engraved stones.
- His family was from just south of the Mason-Dixon Line.† (source)
- The church had opened anew, this time firmly in the hands of Methodists from north of the Mason-Dixon line, a dangerous combination, my mother said.† (source)
- One of the most successful hedge fund managers in the country, he was wildly wealthy, handsome, and considered by many to be the most eligible bachelor south of the Mason-Dixon Line.† (source)
- Since then I've sometimes been overcome with a passion to return into that "heart of darkness" across the Mason-Dixon line, but then I remind myself that the true darkness lies within my own mind, and the idea loses itself in the gloom.† (source)
- Clusters of similarly colored dots define a dialect area but also show how pronunciations from a neighboring area can infiltrate or bleed into it—for example, how the typically Southern pronunciation of / (a single syllable resembling Ah) pops up in states north of the Mason-Dixon Line, where the usual pronunciation makes / sound more like two syllables, Eye-ee.† (source)
- That he was born just south of the Mason-Dixon Line and nearly a northerner means nothing.† (source)
- One of the nastiest abettors of the hateful dogma purveyed below the Mason-Dixon line, he seemed to me also—while I brooded over the haggard figure in a baggy white Palm Beach suit, ravaged like one already seized by death's hand even as he slouched past a frayed palmtree into the New Orleans clinic—one of its chief and most wretched victims, and the faintest breath of regret accompanied my murmured farewell.† (source)
- The bitter animosities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line which had engulfed Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton and Sam Houston continued unabated for some two decades after the war.† (source)
- Has any one of you gentlemen ever thought that there's not a cannon factory south of the Mason-Dixon Line?† (source)