A tract of twelve miles on the river and three or four northwardly was occupied by scattered settlers, while in the centre of the town a compact village had grown up.
It bounds eastwardly on the State of Yucatan; south on Chiapas and Oajaca; west on Vera Cruz, and northwardly on the Gulf of Mexico.
She might likewise have a tide or current setting easterly, where she was; though we had a tide setting northwardly against us, we being in mid-channel.
After a time the emperor of the south built many forts throughout his dominions, and extending them northwardly almost penetrated the lake Erie.
In their voyage they approached the North American continent towards the Gulph of Florida, and sailing northwardly touched at an island situate on the inlet into Pamlico sound, in the state of North Carolina.
From and including Fuca Straits, the country extending northwardly abounds with convenient sea-ports.
Quickly brushing away this force the corps advanced northwardly by roads lying to the west of the Orange & Alexandria railroad and parallel with it, and after a fatiguing march arrived at Centerville, only a few miles from Washington.
The sharp shooters remained quietly in their camp until the 30th of December, when they accompanied a detachment of cavalry on a reconnoissancenorthwardly along the line of the Rappahannock to Richard's Ford, some ten miles above Falmouth.
It commences at the mouth of the Kaskaskia river, five miles below the town of Kaskaskia, and extends northwardly along the Mississippi to the bluffs at Alton, a distance of ninety miles.
For several hours we traveled across a high plain, passing, at the opposite side, through a canon by the bed of a creek, running northwardly into a small lake beyond, and both of them being dry.
Sevier river, flowing northwardly to the lake of the same name, collects its principal waters from this section of the Wah-satch chain.
We crossed over to it, and followed it northwardly towards a gap which was visible in the mountain.
From this point eastward, it is a broken irregular chain of peaks and rifted collateral ranges, and spurs running off northwardly and southwardly, some of which are primitive and others volcanic.
West, lay interminable woods; and nearer slept the lagoon, running northwardly and southwardly in a line with the coast on the outside, broken into many little lakes by green islands, on the sides of which browsed numerous deer.
Her course was northwardlyin a line with the shore, close to which she kept.
Northwardly as far or perhaps beyond the scources of Medecine river and then turning to the West falls into the Tacootchetessee.
Islands; and I beleive that they have already left this neighbourhood, but whether they have gonenorthwardly or Southwardly I am unable to determin; nor do I know in what part of the Continent they raise their young.
Northwardly direction; here also the river spreads to more than 3 times it's former width and is filled with a number of small and handsome Islands covered with cottonwood some timber also in the bottoms, the land again fertile.
Northwardly bend where there was timber here we waited untill the canoes arrived by which time it was so late that we concluded to encamp for the night.
These Gulf lowlands pass northwardly into (3) the great plain of the Mississippi Valley.
Thence he ran the coast northwardly to Cape Breton, where he turned and retraced his track as far as Florida, returning to Spain by way of Cuba.
Following from thence up the South Edisto to its source the boundary pursued a southwesterly course, striking the Savannah River in the vicinity of the mouth of Stevens Creek, and proceeding thence northwardly along the Savannah.
The steps of the sedan-carriers, peculiarly quick and sliding, seemed in passing the bench to have been going northwardlytoward Point Demetrius.
From the lower point northwardly jutting finger-like into the current of the channel, the beach swept in a graceful curve around to the base of the promontory on the south.
Their range extends northwardlyand southwardly of the section, as far as we have any particular account of the country.
The third is a range of hilly and broken country, commencing on the Wisconsan near the Portage, and extending northwardly to Lake Superior.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "northwardly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: north; northerly; northward
