northeastward

How To Use northeastward In A Sentence

• President's range crosses it, everything is fused -- burned; and at the distance of seventy miles northeastwardly from the Bay of San Francisco, a spur comes off with a lofty peak, which pours out immense quantities of lava, and shoots up a flame so broad and bright as to be seen at sea, and to produce distinct shadows at eighty miles 'distance. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
• He reckons he could walk northeastward for three days from there and never see a road. Times, Sunday Times
• In the voyage which we made by order of your Majesty, in addition to the 92 degrees we ran towards the west from our point of departure, before we reached land in the latitude of 34, we have to count 300 leagues which we ran northeastwardly, and 400 nearly east along the coast before The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
• Next day he found that the other track joined the lower road only about half a league to northeastwards. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
• It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary and scattered confusedly over the face of the country; but that they commence at about one hundred and fifty miles from the sea-coast, are disposed in ridges, one behind another, running nearly parallel with the sea-coast, though rather approaching it as they advance northeastwardly. Notes on the State of Virginia
• We crossed these mountains, and zigzagged northeastwardly and northwestwardly in the angle formed by the three streams last mentioned. A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
• Let us enter by this gate, in the west wall, near the church, and advancing a few paces northeastwardly, read the brief and only record of one that shed his blood in the battle of Camden: -- Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
• From midweek, showery rain is set to spread northeastwards. Times, Sunday Times
• Cold water is what keeps the Gulf Stream moving up the Atlantic coast and northeastward after it ricochets off the shoals under Cape Hatteras.
• According to IMD, the depression would further weaken and move east-northeastwards and cross Pakistan coast. Daily News & Analysis