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north and south

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north and south (plural north and souths)

(Cockney rhyming slang) The mouth.

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Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. Thomas Keneally

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is. Horace Mann

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. Abdus Salam

Apparently, something happens on the sun. It sends out a burst of gases. The reservoirs above our earth shake like a bowl of jelly. The radiation droozles out at the ends and makes the auroral displays at the North and South Poles. James Van Allen

In Indian astronomy, the prime meridian is the great circle of the Earth passing through the north and south poles, Ujjayinī and Laṅkā, where Laṅkā was assumed to be on the Earth's equator. Aryabhata

His writing -- in so many languages -- made me a sign-post pointing east, west, north and south. I had shoes in German, stockings in French, gloves in Hebrew, a hat with a veil in Italian. He only kept me naked where I was most accustomed to wearing clothes. Peter Greenaway

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