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Example sentences for "far north"

  • What," said I, "a lighthouse so far north?

  • The people asked me whither I was bound, and I told them that I was going as far north as the Arctic Ocean, as far as Nordkyn.

  • I was surprised to see the buildings of the farm and the big timber of the log house, for I was so far north.

  • I intended to follow the road as far north as it went, and enter "The Land of the Long Night" when the sun was below the horizon for many weeks.

  • The hazels have a wider range than other nut-bearing plants in Canada, being found in almost every province from Nova Scotia westward to British Columbia and as far north as Edmonton in Alberta and Prince Alberta in Saskatchewan.

  • In Ontario the beaked hazel grows as far north as Hudson Bay and in many other parts the common hazel grows very abundantly and bears heavily.

  • But as it is known that it was found as far north as Pennsylvania in winter it may once have ranged even farther north than the line just indicated, and have been found in Southern Wisconsin and Minnesota.

  • Specimens are in the Smithsonian collection from points as far north as Chicago and Michigan.

  • To begin with, the jaguar or panther, by which vernacular names the Felis onca is presumably meant, is not only found in Northern Mexico, but extends its range into the United States and appears as far north as the Red River of Louisiana.

  • The prolongation of this as far north as Gijiga is no idle dream, for I have frequently heard it seriously discussed, and even advocated, by the merchant princes of Irkutsk.

  • It was clearly useless to think of walking, so there was nothing for it but to wait for some passing craft to take us down, a rather gloomy prospect, for whalers were now entering the Arctic, and few other vessels get so far north as this.

  • Where this river sweeps south through the Rocky Mountains to Hell's Gate, a few of these animals are founds as far north as Beaver River, a tributary of the Liard.

  • The hunting ground of the Stonies runs as far north as Peace River, and it is hardly to be doubted that they know Stone's sheep.

  • In the first he proceded as far north as sixty-six degrees forty minutes, visited the southwest coast of Greenland, and gave his own name to the straits that separate it from America.

  • Many charming ruellias from the tropics adorn hothouses and window gardens in winter; but so far north as the New Jersey pine barrens, and westward where killing frosts occur, this perennial proves to be perfectly hardy.

  • The apes living as far north as Germany in the Miocene Age were restricted to Southern France and Italy in the Pliocene, and, at its close, vanished altogether from Europe.

  • There were at least eleven species of palms growing in Switzerland; and one variety of them grew as far north as Northern Germany.

  • But whenever the climatic conditions were such that these animals could find subsistence as far north as England he accompanied them there, and so his remains are found constantly associated with theirs throughout Europe.

  • The hippopotamus, now frequenting the rivers of Africa, during that period roamed as far north as Yorkshire, England.

  • Trees of a warm latitude were then growing as far north as Paris, and we may well suppose Europe to have abounded in shady forests and grassy plains, through which flowed large rivers.

  • There are about one hundred species, mostly tropical, only one of which grows as far north as Kentucky.

  • It has been found as far north as New Haven, Conn.

  • It is rarely found as far north as Virginia, where it meets, but scarcely overlaps its sister fern.

  • It is found as far north as Sharon, Conn.

  • In Syria it is common as far north as the southern shores of the Black Sea.

  • In the autumn the majority of these birds migrate to southern Mexico, although a considerable number remain in our southern states, and a few occasionally tarry for the winter even as far north as New England and southern Michigan.

  • Canton in the south of China has the latitude of Havana, Cuba, while Mukden in Manchuria, and northern Honshu in Japan are only as far north as New York city, Chicago and northern California.

  • The plain, east of this canal, as far north as the mouth of the Hwang ho in 1852, is canalized much as is the area shown in Fig.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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