Mr. Weld, now bending his course in a northerly direction, again crossed the Fluvanna River.
Crossing the south-western extremity of the Lake of the Hills, they entered the Slave river, and steered, along that river, in a northerly direction.
From the mouth of the Saskatchiwine river, the canoes proceed, in a northerly direction, through Sturgeon lake, and Beaver lake.
He therefore tied up his corn and, lest it might be supposed that he was running from the Moors, driving his horse before him he took a northerly direction, followed by the boys and girls of the town.
He had now to quit the canoes and to proceed on ox-back, taking a northerly direction.
From hence Dr Livingstone and Dr Kirk proceeded on foot in a northerly direction to Lake Shirwa.
The skipper of the whaler, however, shouted down to them from his elevated perch the intelligence that a somewhat intricate but continuous channel extended through this ice in a northerly direction as far as the eye could reach.
The Rio Barreiros flowed in a northerly direction (elev.
This great valley was bounded by two ridges extending in a northerly direction--two spurs, as it were.
Skirting the forest in a northerly direction, we went over a low hill range with delightful clear campos and patches of forest.
The French Division, in consequence of fresh orders received from the Marshal, withdrew simultaneously in a northerly direction.
The Guard and XIIth Corps moved in a northerly direction.
Menehould; the other Corps of the IIIrd Army were hurrying by forced marches in a northerly direction.
Although the traces were very indistinct, they appeared to be going in a northerly direction.
On quitting Wadinoon, they proceeded in a northerly direction, travelling on mules at the rate of thirty miles a day, and in fifteen days arrived at Mogadore.
They then loaded the camels with water, and striking off in a northerly direction, travelled twelve or thirteen days at about the same pace.
The village in which they halted was called Moussa, after the river, and is distant from Keeshee, in a northerly direction, as nearly as they could guess, about sixteen miles.
He therefore tied up the corn, and to prevent suspicion that he had run away from the Moors, took a northerly direction.
As we proceeded up in a northerly direction, we found the waterhole to diminish in size very much, and at about two and a half miles the creek ran out in a lot of small watercourses.
I should have mentioned that one flew over our camp last evening in a northerly direction; this speaks well for the country and climate.
The creek at the point flows in a northerly direction through a large lightly timbered flat, on which it partially runs out.
Reloading and wringing our clothes dry, we set out from the horrible neighbourhood of the river, with its reek and filth, in a northerly direction, following a road which led up to easy and level ground.
The Desert appeared to be taking a northerly direction, and certainly was much broader than further to the westward, making apparently for the Gulf of Carpentaria; nor could I doubt but that there had once been an open sea between us and it.
My first object was, to ascertain if we could cross this feature, which extended southwards beyond the range of vision, but turned to the westward in a northerly direction, in the shape in which Mr. Eyre has laid Lake Torrens down.
On the same day we were to the south of the bank of Newfoundland, and, therefore, steered in nearly a northerly direction.
In the chain before us, we remarked an opening in a northerly direction, where the Delaware breaks through; this is called the Delaware Water Gap, or the Delaware Gap.
Past this spot he fell in with natives, who told him that a large party of men and horses died at a place in a northerly direction, and that a gun belonging to the party was still in the possession of the blacks.
But when he reached that place he found the insurgents had already left, and taken a northerly direction.
Meanwhile, Cavalier and his men had proceeded in a northerly direction, along the right bank of the little river Droude, one of the affluents of the Gardon.
Vaisampayana continued, "Having spoken these words unto Yudhishthira (seated) in the midst of the ascetics with friends, the great Rishi having also saluted Dhaumya and all the Pandavas set out in a northerly direction!
Having addressed that foremost of mountain thus, Damayanti then went in a northerly direction.
And issuing through Vardhamana gate of the city, the Pandavas bearing their weapons and accompanied by Draupadi set out in a northerly direction.
There were here and there vast gaps to be forded or steep hills to be climbed, and in four days the explorers only advanced about eight miles in a northerly direction.
Kotzebue had not time to identify them, and steering in a northerly direction he reached Ounalashka on the 24th April, where he had to repair the serious damage sustained by the Rurik in two violent storms.
We were a week in crossing the highlands in a northerly direction; then we descended into the Upper Shire Valley, which is nearly 1200 feet above the level of the sea.
The height opposite extends a few miles further west, and then branches off in a northerly direction.
They travelled in a northerly direction over a mountainous country.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "northerly direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
