WHEN the sun stood over the farm-house and the frost was gone from the plains, the little girl climbed upon her pony's back and, with the cowbird perched on her shoulder, started northward up the river.
Then he put the short reins into the little girl's hands, gave the mare a good slap on the flanks, and watched horse, rider, and colt departnorthward toward the cattle.
The air was rapidly growing more chill, and northward the sky was streaked in long, slanting lines with a downfall that was advancing toward the farm.
He sailed northward along the west and north coast of Iberia (Portugal and Spain).
But it may also be supposed that they had to begin by going northward to get seals and provision themselves with food and oil (fuel), which might be necessary for a long and unknown voyage.
Illustration: The mountains from Tingmiarmiut Fjord northward in 62° 35' N.
Then Floki went northward on the mountain and saw a fjord full of sea-ice.
The legends, whose Greek origin is disclosed by the form of the names, may be old skippers' tales, or the romances of merchants who went northward from the Black Sea, but they may also in part be derived from Pytheas.
He proceeded northward against them and overcame them; returned to Kvænland, went thence up into Finmark, and came down from the mountains in Vefsen.
To him this name is a realisation of the Greeks' Amazons, who have been moved northward to the Gulf of Bothnia, just as the Scandinavians become Hyperboreans.
Three times in their history they have thus trekked northward to avoid struggle and now no one can say that on the hands of the Soyots there has ever been seen human blood.
The rebound or "back-spang" of the current from some hidden reef to the northward had turned the boat aside, even as it had done Wat himself with his oar, and there the treasure was almost within his reach.
But the current had seized him in its mid-strength, and after first sweeping him close inshore it was now hurrying him northward and westward of the isle, under the vast face of the mural precipice in which the cliffs of Lianacraig culminated.
There was no sound save the ceaseless soughing whisper of the mighty salt river as it rushed northward past the isle--the strange pervading sound of the Suck gurgling afar like the boiling of a pot.
These are the northwardwall of a towering wilderness of ice and snow which clambers southward higher and wilder and vaster to the culminating summits of our globe, to Dhaulagiri and Everest.
Presently he turned about and stood with his hands folded behind him, looking at the northward stars.
His regiment fell back unpressed behind the fortified lines between Namur and Sedan, entrained at a station called Mettet, and was sent northward by Antwerp and Rotterdam to Haarlem.
The surface of the country is thinly timbered, with the exception of the mountain which boundsit to the Northward and Westward.
At Newcastle, a settlement about sixty miles to the northwardof Port Jackson, there were five hundred and fifty souls, about seventy of whom were free.
The town of Newcastle is situated at the mouth of this river, and is about sixty miles to the northward of Port Jackson.
Far out is the Black Rock, on which is a light-house two hundred and sixty-eight feet high, and to the northward are North and South Inishkea and Duvillaun.
Northward is a perfect sea of Donegal mountains, reaching as far as Slieve Snaght and Errigal, with all the intervening ranges near Ardara, Glenties, and Dunloe.
But the highway which would challenge the world for its equal in grand scenery would extend from the Cowlitz Pass northward along the crest of the range to the Cascade branch.
Takes its rise in the Sourdough Mountains and flows northward across the boundary of the Park.
Northward forest-covered hill and valley reach to Mount Baker and the snow peaks that break the horizon line.
Far to the northward rose the regular conical summit of Mount Baker, like an isolated sea-girt island.
Some drain northward to the Carbon River, some southward to the Mowich River.
It flows northward and then turns in a northwesterly direction, emptying finally in Puget Sound at the city of Seattle.
Johnston, who was equal in all the elements of generalship to Lee and who was under instruction from the war power at Richmond to assume the offensive northward as far as Nashville.
It extends northward in an oval form from the junction of these rivers, for a distance of 20 m.
Along the western shore (Baffin Land) a cold current passes southward; but along the east there is a warm northward stream, and there are a few Danish settlements on the Greenland coast.
Well then, he was moving northward among those islands, trying his luck at the gold-digging, and doing no good.
The Fugitive Slave Bill had been signed but a month when Garrison pointed out in The Liberator that a northward trek of free people of color was already under way.
The American Anti-Slavery Society's twenty-seventh report said "Northward migration from slave land during the last year has fully equalled the average of former years.
A big open bookcase, divided off into foot square boxes for each boy's books, occupied the northeast corner, with its back against the northward wall.
They won't," said Stark, in answer, and resumed the northward way.
They hitched in and again pushed northward at nightfall, but the stars were hidden.
They forded the Run right down here to the southwest of us, and rode northward so as to cross this slanting path, if they kept on in the same direction, just about a mile from here.
Swift, invisible, they swooped down from the northward across the front.
Northward it stretches out on the level sea shore, in a long double row of houses called the Almendral: towards the south it rises in the direction of the hills.
The whole of the broad valley was then called Pacchacamac, because near the sea-shore and northward of the river, there was a temple sacred to the "Creator of the Earth.
Northward of the Bay of Callao, near the plantation of Boca Negra, there is a shallow, where, according to records, there existed a sugar plantation about fifty years ago.
Scarcely a quarter of a league furthernorthward are the eternal glaciers, and they are several hundred feet lower than the Pass.
As long as Paris had fortified boundary walls there was always a Porte Montmartre, moved northward three times, as the city bounds extended.
Turning her face northward she saw one unbroken line of flame as far as the eye could reach, and forcing its way towards her like an infuriated demon, roaring, crackling, sending up columns of dun-colored smoke as it tore along over the plain.
Trending northward it then passes along towards Pembina, a border town on our northern boundary, through a plain of vast extent, dotted with groves of oak planted as if by hand.
This species is an inhabitant of southwestern Texas, extending eastward and northward into New Mexico, southern Missouri, Indiana and Tennessee to southern Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
Between San Juan, Malpaso, and Piedras Azules, they form strata parallel to each other; and dipping regularly northward at an angle of 40 or 50 degrees, they cover even the green slates in concordant stratification.
What her business might now be in following our little detail northward I could not surmise.
You, sir, can hope to encounter no armed resistance as you march northward burning town after town, save only if Butler makes a stand or attempts an ambuscade in force.
But I was still thinking of her as I rode northward through the deepening dusk.
The sheep walk branched a dozen yards beyond, running northward through what had been a stump field.
I hear the crashing of many feet innorthward flight!
From the summit of this island a set of bearings was obtained, particularly of the islands to the northwardand westward.
The coast is here higher than usual, and is thickly wooded; but the coastline to the northward is formed of high cliffs without much wood, and of a remarkable white colour.
It is a large sheet of water, full of shoals, and probably communicates with the sea by a small opening near the point next to the northward of Bustard Bay; the dry rock off which was distinctly seen over the land.
The next morning we resumed our course to the northward and passed inside of Hummock Island and between Keppel's great Island and the First Lump.
In passing the Pyramid it was found to be placed five miles too much to the northward in Captain Flinders' chart.
To the northward of it the hills fall back with some appearance of a rivulet, but the sandy beach was traced from the masthead, and the opening, if any, was suspected to be a stream communicating with Ninian Bay.
At noon the next day we rounded Cape York; and, as we had last year taken the route to the northward of Wednesday Island, we now steered round the south side of Prince of Wales Islands through Endeavour Strait.
Having obtained sights on the beach at Cape Clinton for the time-keepers we sailed out of this port by the same track that we entered; and held our course to the northward towards the Northumberland Islands.
A small coasting proa was seen to the northward but soon afterwards lost sight of, steering towards Timor.
To the northward of this point was an island and farther on to seaward a dry sandbank.
And the next morning passed to the northward of New Year's Island in order to avoid the calm weather which was experienced at the same season last year.
We then bore away to the northward and anchored in five fathoms and a half, at a mile from Sunday Island, which bore between North 23 degrees and 44 degrees East (magnetic).
It is eighty miles long, and runs down the Tom valley northward to the city, which is the largest and most important in all Siberia.
Finland stretches northward far beyond the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, where it joins Norwegian territory.
The schooner was kept more northward in the afternoon; at four o'clock a moderately high sloping hill was visible in the north by west, and at seven a small rocky point on the beach bore north 50 degrees west three or four leagues.
Weather conditions, also, did not favour taking the vessel close inshore on her northward course, and it would have been almost impossible to detect the mouths of the New South Wales rivers without a close scrutiny of the coastline.
Consequently, it was all the more astonishing to behold this great sheet of blue water broadening out to shores overlooked by high hills, and extending northward further than the eye could penetrate.
The coast to the northward was seen to be very low, and the soundings were fast decreasing.
Roberval once more set sail, steering northward to the Straits of Belle Isle and the dreaded Isles of Demons.
One of the ships was wrecked at a point farther northward than the rest, and it was her company whose campfires were seen by the Spaniards at their bivouac on the sands of Anastasia Island.
Famished and desperate, the followers of Ribaut were toiling northward to seek refuge at Fort Caroline, when they found the Spaniards in their path.
Verrazzano steered southward in search of a harbor, and, finding none, turned northward again.
Verrazzano coasted the seaboard of Maine, and sailed northward as far as Newfoundland, whence, provisions failing, he steered for France.
Their relatives are found to the northward as far as the Sahara desert, along the southern borders of which they have spread out to the eastward and westward.
Spreading northward and westward from the middle Asiatic plains, this great wave has produced the nomadic tribes of Siberia, like the Chukchi, the Buryats, and the Yukaghir.
