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Example sentences for "northwest"

Lexicographically close words:
northing; northside; northward; northwardly; northwards; northwesterly; northwestern; northwesternmost; northwestward; nos
  1. He had long been interested in northwest explorations; and, according to his own account, he wished to go as mate with Knight twenty-five years before.

  2. Two years after Hudson sailed on his last voyage, a new expedition was sent to the northwest under the command of Sir Thomas Button.

  3. It was not until Frobisher sailed on his first voyage that the real northwest explorations can be said fairly to have begun.

  4. The discovery of a passage to China by the northwest having been deemed impracticable, a company of merchants was formed in 1553 to prosecute a route by the northeast, and Cabot was made its governor.

  5. Henry Hudson had already acquired a considerable reputation as a bold and skilful navigator, and had made three noteworthy voyages of discovery when he embarked on his voyage for northwest exploration.

  6. The whole transaction had been so sudden and so public, that there had been neither time nor room for trepidation on my part.

  7. Adams and the Federal cause forever,' say I; and all aristocratic people are on that side.

  8. I am sorry to see you thrown so young, so unprotected, on the waves of society, as you must be soon.

  9. It's wrong to speculate on such uncertainties; it's tempting Providence, Miriam.

  10. The tendency of his mind was evidently sarcastic.

  11. It was afternoon when I awoke, as if from a deep sleep, to find myself alone with Mrs. Austin in my chamber.

  12. There is a little too much of the Jeremiah and Isaiah style about such extracts as I have seen, to suit my taste.

  13. I can't think what has got into Claude lately," he said to my father one day at our dinner-table.

  14. In 1776, Captain Jonathan Carver, of Connecticut, started on an exploring expedition, to the Northwest and reached the falls about the middle of November.

  15. The first church in the Northwest Territory was built in Vincennes about 1742, under the rectorship of Father Meurin, who had come from France to care for the spiritual wants of the settlers.

  16. The first British occupation was that of the Northwest Fur Company of Canada, which pushed some posts across the Rockies to the far north.

  17. It is significant that McDougal soon after received a valuable share in the Northwest Company.

  18. What William Henry Harrison did at Tippecanoe for the old Northwest in scattering the allied natives under Tecumseh, Colonel Wright accomplished at Spokane Plains for the Northwest in demolishing the league of tribes under the Spokanes.

  19. So far as I know this is the only complete cup now in existence in the region northwest of Lake Superior, though several others are said to have been discovered and been sent to distant friends of the finders.

  20. Our Northwest has, however, been neglected in the accounts of the mound-bearing region.

  21. A lane led from the Bowery, close by the milestone, to his country house, which was at the present northwest corner of Delancey and Chrystie Streets.

  22. He died suddenly in 1760 at his country house which was at the present northwest corner of Delancey and Chrystie Streets.

  23. At Prince and Marion Streets, northwest corner, the house in which President James Monroe lived while in the city still stands.

  24. The Stewart residence at the northwest corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, was, at the time it was built, considered the finest house in America.

  25. The Middle Dutch Reformed Church was built in Lafayette Place in 1839, at the northwest corner of Fourth Street after its removal from Nassau and Cedar Streets.

  26. The line of this road, where it joined the Great Kiln Road, is still clearly shown in the oblique side wall of the house at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and Fifteenth Street.

  27. This property was sold in 1865, and the congregation then worshipped in the Medical College Hall, at the northwest corner of Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue, until the purchase of the present building from the Episcopalians.

  28. The house stood, approximately, at the present northwest corner of Ninth Street and Broadway.

  29. Illustration] III III [Sidenote: Oliver Street Baptist Church] The Oliver Street Baptist Church was built on the northwest corner of Oliver and Henry Streets in 1795.

  30. Sidenote: Tontine Coffee House] The Tontine Building at the northwest corner of Wall and Water Streets marks the site of the Tontine Coffee House, a celebrated house for the interchange of goods and of ideas, and a political centre.

  31. There instead of returning to the Valley, follow the Tioga road around the northwest side of the lake, over to the Tuolumne Meadows and up to the west base of Mount Dana.

  32. The great East Wind came to life again, and the Northwest Wind’s son was nearly a year old.

  33. Northwest Wind now turned his footsteps toward the west.

  34. In the evening two beautiful girls (daughters of Southwest Wind) came in and began to make merry with them; but this tired the Northwest Wind, and he fell asleep.

  35. While he was talking with one of the men the rest went on, and Northwest Wind said: “You had better turn back with me, for I am going to visit your chief, Culloo.

  36. Northwest Wind at once set out in search of the tobacco.

  37. Northwest Wind thought his end was near, and called aloud: “Grandpa, come!

  38. As soon as night came on, the water began to rise rapidly, compelling Northwest Wind to climb into a tree.

  39. It was hard to get firewood to keep the old man and the child warm, for the snow was very deep and fell nearly every day; so the Northwest Wind said to his father: “I am going to stop this; I cannot stand it any longer.

  40. The Northwest Wind then set out to visit his father, the great East Wind, but found that he had been dead so long that the ground had sunk four feet, and the wigwam was all decayed.

  41. The Eastern Star told Northwest Wind where he might find his father; then he took out his tobacco to fill his pipe.

  42. Charles now started his famous tour of the Northwest which rivaled the Stoddart days in hardship and in humor.

  43. Up at the northwest corner of Thirty-fifth Street and Broadway was an old barnlike structure that had been successively aquarium, menagerie, and skating-rink.

  44. If we reach it all right we are to string a wire from there to our first observation trench to the northwest of it.

  45. It is a picture of the portion of the northwest floor where the rifle was found.

  46. At that time I was summoned to the northwest corner of the building.

  47. This is a photograph made by me of the rifle where it was found in the northwest portion of the sixth floor, 411 Elm Street, Dallas.

  48. This particular box was processed and a palmprint, a legible palmprint, developed on the northwest corner of the box, on the top of the box as it was sitting on the floor.

  49. As I had finished that, Captain Fritz sent word for me to come to the northwest part of the building, the rifle had been found, and he wanted photographs.

  50. I have also marked off the other bureaus that are located on this floor, the burglary and theft bureau would be on the west side, and in the northwest corner is the juvenile bureau.

  51. The flat lands with their marshes were pestilential to the young men of the northwest who constituted Sherman's army.

  52. The two armies met at New Hope Church, a point a few miles west of Marietta, and a few miles northwest of Atlanta.

  53. In aid of a clear understanding his exact words are quoted here: The Mississippi river was guarded from St. Louis to its mouth; the line of the Arkansas was held, thus giving us all of the northwest north of that river.

  54. Some ten or twelve miles northwest from Lituya Peak is Mount Fairweather, which bears abreast us after a little over an hour's run from Lituya Bay.

  55. Some of the pleasantest towns in the Northwest are to be found in this valley.

  56. This Folder contains a brief outline of the trip to Alaska, and also a correct map of the Northwest Pacific Coast, from Portland to Sitka, Alaska, showing the route of vessels to and from this new and almost unknown country.

  57. The whole Northwest was then one of the centres of volcanic action.

  58. Griffith, of the Sixth Texas, moved up northwest to the little town of Oakland to meet him.

  59. They crept on all fours in a wide circle, one to the left, the other to the right, around the fire and the sentinels, until they stood northeast and northwest of them.

  60. A strange, dazzling light now poured over all this bronze, silver, and gold, as the slanting rays of the setting sun streamed from the northwest into the hall.

  61. Whenever any special raids to obtain information and identifications were called for, the 28th Northwest Battalion invariably volunteered for such duty, and their efforts were always crowned with success.

  62. The 28th Northwest Battalion, originally under the Command of Lieut.

  63. Private Jack O'Brien of the 28th Northwest Battalion, to write a few words as an introduction to the story which he is placing before the public, it gives me much pleasure to do so.

  64. From the United States boundary line south-ward it is a distance of seven miles to Isle la Motte, which island is five and a half miles long by one and three quarters wide, with a lighthouse upon its northwest point.

  65. Refugees, and that the lands to be given to the Provincials are to commence at Sunbury (or St. Anne) and go northwest to Canada or elsewhere.

  66. He commenced at the northwest of the Lake, on lands known as "Soldiers' Hope," belonging to the estate of Col.

  67. At this place a ditch or canal was dug, running east to the northwest Lock of the Dismal Swamp Canal, through which a vast quantity of grain and other produce raised by the farmers of Gates county, was shipped to Norfolk.

  68. We could even distinguish upon its northwest side a deep-cut gorge, which was not visible before.

  69. Nearly all the eastern section, from Ordos to the Yellow Sea, was rebuilt in the fifth century, and the double rampart along the northwest frontier of the plains of Peking was twice restored in the fifteenth and sixteenth.

  70. The two Ararats together form an elliptical mass, about twenty-five miles in length, running northwest and southeast, and about half that in width.

  71. You shall have him in the house when my new bit of ground Northwest of London is open: very handy, ten miles out.

  72. They awoke the next morning to find a grey sky and a high northwest wind blowing.

  73. All about them was a maze, a stinging, dazzling, whirling wall of white, that blown on the breath of the fierce northwest wind pelted and buffeted the very breath from his body.

  74. In the first place you must remember that as all these supplies gathered through the Great Northwest granary approach the coast, where they are to be shipped abroad, they concentrate.

  75. Another thing that counts heavily," added Rob sagely, "is the fact that out in the Northwest that you mention the transcontinental railroad doesn't come anywhere as near the border as it does close to the Maine line.

  76. Honest, now, I believe Tubby thinks the International Boundary is a real line drawn across the Divide from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to mark the division of Uncle Sam's property from the Dominion of Canada and the Great Northwest Territory!

  77. That's likely a long train filled with grain, and all sorts of valuable supplies that are being sent from the rich Saskatchewan and Alberta country, as an offering from the Canadian Northwest granary.

  78. It certainly gives the lie to those who deny the existence of a Northwest Passage.

  79. Well," said the doctor, "that serves to confirm those who seek a Northwest Passage.

  80. Well, see what followed, and whether the Northwest Passage was really made.

  81. June 25th the Forward sighted Cape Dundas, at the northwest extremity of Prince of Wales Land.

  82. I was trying simply to sail through the Northwest Passage, that is all.

  83. If the Northwest Passage ever becomes practicable, it must be for ships and not for sledges.

  84. He put in the cairn another paper, in which he announced his intention of returning to England by the Northwest Passage, which he had discovered by reaching Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound.

  85. You speak of the Northwest Passage; well, it has yet to be discovered!


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    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; degree; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northward; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southward; southwest; sunrise; sunset; west; westerly; western; westward