Literary notes about SOUTHERN (AI summary)
In literature the word “southern” is used in a wide variety of ways that go far beyond mere geographic indication. Authors employ it to mark actual locations or directions—whether it is a literal place like a railway station ([1]), a specific point along a coastline ([2], [3]), or a particular expanse of territory as seen in historical and architectural texts ([4], [5])—or to evoke cultural, social, and emotional resonances. For instance, “southern” can designate a group of people or a social fabric with its own distinct character, as in references to Southern people ([6]) or Southern states bearing specific political and historical identities ([7], [8], [9]). It is also used metaphorically to convey personality traits or moods, such as a “southern temper” ([10]) or the gentle ambiance of a “sunny southern day” ([11]), thus enriching the narrative by linking place with character and atmosphere.
- He got into a train, and at nightfall he arrived at the Southern Railway Station at Brussels.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - However, instead of returning on board as might have been expected, the boat coasted along the islet, so as to round its southern point.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - By May 15 we were off the southern tip of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Constellations, northern, 265 f.f. ; Southern,
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio - [138] 2. We must also beware that it has not a southern exposure.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio - A large proportion of the passengers were Southern people.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - The possession of the Savannah River is more than fatal to the possibility of Southern independence.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Many a man who advocated equality most eloquently for a Southern plantation, could not tolerate it at his own fireside.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - It was a deed dastardly enough to arouse Southern blood, which gives its horror of rape as excuse for lawlessness, but she was an Afro-American.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett - An indignant little man this Amiral, of Southern temper and complexion, of 'considerable muscular force.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - Nature's power here broke through in a mountain snow-storm; and there her glory in a sunny southern day.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
