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Example sentences for "northerly"

Lexicographically close words:
northeasterly; northeastern; northeasternmost; northeastward; norther; northermost; northern; northerne; northernmost; northers
  1. The new division was to embrace that part of Spotsylvania County lying in Saint Mark's Parish "Bounden southerly by the line of Hanover County, northerly by the grant of Lord Fairfax and westerly by the utmost limits of Virginia.

  2. Not recognizing the small coast town that first came in view, I moved up the coast in a northerly direction, diminishing the current until I could see a large stretch of country.

  3. He adds that Nicholas Lynne is said to have made several voyages to the most northerly parts of the world, charts of which he presented to Edward III.

  4. He had made up his mind that this northerly route was the right one to take, and he was not a man to be diverted from his purpose.

  5. His front was covered by the marshy bed of the stream, his left flank by its northerly bend towards the Forth, his right by a group of woods, behind which, until the English army appeared, the Scots concealed themselves.

  6. We slipped silently up the inside, the northerly passage, to the lagoon, and crept up the lagoon just as silently, but even as we were mooring the Bess in a nook at the head of the lagoon, a tall Arab was alongside.

  7. Not yet, not till the northerly fellow comes into stays.

  8. The most northerly boundary of the original Anzac position was the range of hills known as Walker's Ridge, which culminates in the sheer height of Russell's Top.

  9. Their mission was to cross the two gullies up which the New Zealanders had charged to the capture of Chunuk Bair, and to storm a third and more northerly gully, known as the Aghyl Dere.

  10. The more northerly beach was not so greatly exposed, and possessed equal facilities for embarking troops, though they were not of a very high order.

  11. From this point, for about a mile in a northerly direction, is the line of Waterloo Place, Regent Street, and Portland Place, forming the handsomest street in London.

  12. This beautiful park is situated considerably away from the other parks, in a northerly direction from the Marylebone Road.

  13. Southerly: This Constitution reaches to the Eastwards of the Philippine Isles, and as far Northerly as Japan.

  14. That the more Northerly places have greater Alterations of the Baroscope, than the more Southerly.

  15. Why in more Northerly places the Variations of the Baroscope are greater than in the Southerly?

  16. Presently it takes a more northerly direction and becomes a steep, wide slope of scree following the line of cliff to the great blocks of fallen stones which mark the mouth of the chasm.

  17. Tryfaen just to the north of the most northerly of the three peaks.

  18. It is a spur of Crib y Ddysgl, and is easily identified by its projecting in a northerly direction between the two little pools in Cwm Glas.

  19. Seti resolved to extend the building in a northerly direction, without interfering with the thin screen which had satisfied his predecessors.

  20. They are each formed of a single block of red breccia from Syenê,* and are fifty-three feet high, but the more northerly one was shattered in the earthquake which completed the ruin of Thebes in the year 27 B.

  21. They reached the parallel of eighty-two degrees forty-five minutes, which was the most northerly point trodden by the foot of man.

  22. The more northerly of these lines has a branch which runs through the important railway centre of Hazebrouck[39] to Ypres.

  23. Towards the east run two main highways--the more northerly leading to Roulers, the more southerly to Menin, and thence to Lille.

  24. We were a week in crossing the highlands in a northerly direction; then we descended into the Upper Shire Valley, which is nearly 1200 feet above the level of the sea.

  25. They travelled in a northerly direction over a mountainous country.

  26. The height opposite extends a few miles further west, and then branches off in a northerly direction.

  27. No delay was made in transferring us to another neighbourhood, and we set out in a northerly direction, which boded little good, for we knew that unpleasant events were developing in that quarter.

  28. We had a strongish northerly breeze at midday with snow and hail storms, and now the wind has turned to the south and the sky is overcast with threatenings of a blizzard.

  29. But I am anxious to get back and see that all is well at the latter, as for a long time I have been wondering how our beach has withstood the shocks of northerly winds.

  30. The ship lies peacefully in the bay; a brisk northerly breeze in the forenoon died to light airs in the evening--it is warm enough, the temperature in the hut was 63° this evening.

  31. I don't think spray can get so high in such a sheltered spot even if we get a northerly gale when the sea is open.

  32. We have had two days of northerly wind, a very unusual occurrence; yesterday it was blowing S.

  33. Yesterday we woke to a strong northerly wind with temp.

  34. Once or twice in the night a light northerly wind, soon dying away.

  35. When we camped there was a chill northerly breeze, a black sky, and light falling snow.

  36. I think we may have a blizzard, though the wind is northerly at present.

  37. A good deal of light snow has been falling to-day; a brisk northerly breeze is drifting it along, giving a very strange yet beautiful effect in the north, where the strong red twilight filters through the haze.

  38. A fairly strong northerly wind sprang up, causing this thin ice to override and to leave several open leads near the land.

  39. Spent the day writing letters and completing arrangements for the ship--a brisk northerly breeze sprang up in the night and the ship bumped against the glacier until the pack came in as protection from the swell.

  40. I stepped to the helm and headed the brig on a northerly course, and stood awhile looking at the compass to satisfy myself that the convict who grasped the spokes understood what to do with the wheel.

  41. These observers begin in the south centre, where Mr. Howitt leaves off in his northerly researches, and go north.

  42. A sinister northerly flaw was already rippling the surface of the hitherto placid sea; and Uncle Johnnie, accustomed to read the sky like a book, hurried as he seldom did to get the small boat under way.

  43. It is the most northerly you can distinguish.

  44. Some of the most northerly species of jerboas (Jaculidae), namely Alactaga decumana of the Kirghiz Steppes and A.

  45. Mr. Smith and myself started at noon this day, accompanied by Corporal Auger and two natives, upon a trip in a northerly direction; about 5 P.

  46. The most northerly window on the east side of the transept is also by Robin.

  47. The whole northerly side of the choir opens out into a chapel whose northern and eastern ends are lighted by three large embrasures filled with excellent Renaissance glazing, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin.

  48. Each of these chapels has large sixteenth century windows, the northerly one in the west wall, the Descent from the Cross, being very fine; in fact, it is by some considered the best in the cathedral.

  49. Douglas spruce covers many of the northerly slopes that lie between six thousand and nine thousand feet.

  50. I was on a northerly slope, in spruce timber, tramping over five feet of snow.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "northerly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northward; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southwest; west; westerly; western