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Mason and Dixon's line   /mˈeɪsən ənd dˈɪksənz laɪn/   Listen
Mason and Dixon's line

noun
1.
The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War.  Synonyms: Mason-Dixon line, Mason and Dixon line.






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"Mason and Dixon's line" Quotes from Famous Books



... constitution. The response was unanimous and in thunder-tones—"NO!" "Will you succor and protect him as a brother-man—a resident of the old Bay State?" "YES!" shouted the whole mass, with an energy so startling, that the ruthless tyrants south of Mason and Dixon's line might almost have heard the mighty burst of feeling, and recognized it as the pledge of an invincible determination, on the part of those who gave it, never to betray him that wanders, but to hide the outcast, and firmly to abide ...
— The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave • Frederick Douglass

... stern and valiant measures for the removal of our "national disgrace," that their new attitude amazed us. We could not understand what sort of a moral whirlwind it was that had caught them up, turned them round, borne them off and set them down on the other side of Mason and Dixon's Line. It was strange, but with the exception of a few such clear-headed, steadfast "friends of humanity" as Cobden and Bright, and such heroes as those glorious operatives of Lancashire, all seemed changed. Even the ...
— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood



Words linked to "Mason and Dixon's line" :   state boundary, state line, Mason-Dixon line, Mason and Dixon line



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