Literary notes about Northern (AI summary)
In many of these passages, authors use "northern" to mark boundaries, convey remoteness, or invoke distinct cultural and environmental qualities. It can signal grand exploration, as when a character travels "towards the northern pole" [1], define the frontier regions of bustling nations, such as in reference to "northern Ontario" [2], or indicate landscapes braced by harsher climates, as in the "northern highlands" [3]. Sometimes it underscores a region’s role in shaping events—whether referencing "northern shepherds of Europe" [4] or troops drawn from "the Northern hive" [5]. In detailing realms "on the northern side" [6][7] or societies shaped by "the northern border" [8], the term often evokes a sense of ruggedness or separation fundamental to a work’s portrayal of place and people.
- I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - At present it is exterminated in the highly cultivated states of the Middle West, but has spread into northern Ontario, New Brunswick, and Manitoba.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - In speaking of all, or any of the northern shepherds of Europe, or Asia, I indifferently use the appellations of Scythians or Tartars.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Seamen must chiefly be drawn from the Northern hive.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - The Burg is seated on a rock dominating the town and an immensely deep fosse guards it on the northern side.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker - The village of Birlstone is a small and very ancient cluster of half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle - Then, as now, the Bisaya occupied the central islands of the archipelago and some of the northern coast of Mindanao.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
