Mason and Dixon line
- a variation of Mason-Dixon line.
Example Sentences
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The union church would have 2,600,000 communicants and as many more adherents, principally north of the Mason and Dixon line.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result was the famous Mason and Dixon line, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The Mason and Dixon line is about thirty-nine degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, while the mouth of the Ohio is at thirty-seven degrees.
From The United States of America, Part 1 by Sparks, Edwin Erle
Eileen and I have our house divided by a Mason and Dixon line.
From Her Father's Daughter by Stratton-Porter, Gene
