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Northeasterly   Listen
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Northeasterly  adj.  Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.






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"Northeasterly" Quotes from Famous Books



... persons than the Christmas story. Rarely has it dealt with the supernatural, either the apparition of ghosts or the intervention of angels. The weather being so much milder at the close of November than it is a month later, very little can be done with the elements; though on the coast a northeasterly storm has been, and can be, very usefully employed. The Thanksgiving story is more restricted in its range; the scene is still mostly in New England, and the characters are of New England extraction, who come home from the ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... leave the multitude of the heathen and go into a land wherein never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their laws, which God gave them; and they suppose that, in pursuance of this resolution, the tribes continued in a northeasterly direction until they came to Behring Straits, which they crossed, and set foot on this continent, spreading over it from north to south, until, at the discovery of it by Columbus, they had peopled every part. It must be admitted ...
— Three Years on the Plains - Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 • Edmund B. Tuttle

... the south as far as Point Potol on the north, following a direction almost parallel to the western coast. Large groups of sierras branch out to the right and left of the central chain; on the eastern slope begins another chain, running northeast to the extreme northeasterly point of the island. Owing to its cragginess, it has a great number of streams running in different directions. The area ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead



Words linked to "Northeasterly" :   north, northeaster, northeastern, northeast



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