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Example sentences for "went north"

  • We went north-east under sail, and after making thirty-nine miles passed a peculiar berg that we had been abreast of sixty hours earlier.

  • I wonder whether the 'Endurance' wintered in the ice or went north.

  • The sea shoaled as we went north, either to east or to west, and the fact suggested that the contour-lines ran east and west, roughly.

  • The king proceeded to Ostrarfjord, and came to his ships, with which he went north to Sogn, and had his living in guest-quarters there in summer (A.

  • Erling Skialgson again, and likewise many other lendermen who would not abandon their udal possessions, went north to their homes; and Erling had many people that summer about him.

  • We went north-west to some ridges at seventeen miles, where there was excellent vegetation, but no water.

  • He went north a short distance and wished for a sweat-house.

  • From the spring he turned back and went west, then back; went north, then back; went south, then back to the spring.

  • I went north while he bore off in a northeasterly direction, and after traveling for three days came to the river at a point above where we lost our flat-boat.

  • I placed my narrative and some other papers in the chest and gave the key into his charge, while I went north, across the Wisconsin River, to visit my old hunting and trapping friend, Robert McCloud.

  • The river had some ice floating on its surface, and this plainly told us that we were likely to meet more ice and colder weather as we went north.

  • As soon as I could after term I went north to Scotland, where I was engaged to superintend the Oxford Local examinations at the Benedictine convent school at Dumfries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    colonial days; ever occur; her chamber; many miles; occasionally seen; precipitate retreat; revised edition; secret committee; stiff brush; went aboard; went about; went abroad; went aloft; went and; went below; went down; went every; went home; went myself; went over; went past; went quickly; went then; went thither; went towards; went with