new-corners

Updated: June 3, 2025

Now some of them gathered about the new-corners, and wondered at Hallblithe and his long spear and shining helm and dark grey byrny; but none asked concerning them, for all knew that they were folk new come to the bliss of the Glittering Plain.

William Morris - The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men

Nor will it stop until the very name and nature of the old partners be overwhelmed by new-corners into the confederacy. Sir, the question goes to the very root of the power and influence of the present members of this Union.

- American Eloquence, Volume 1 : Studies In American Political History (1896)