How To Use North by west In A Sentence

• The bed of the river was formed by talc-schiste, in strata, the strike of which was from north by west to south by east, standing almost perpendicular, with a slight dip to the eastward. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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• The kill we spoke about before runs past here, and the course is mostly north by west and south by east. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664
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