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Example sentences for "what direction"

  • Maria Theresa accompanied Madame in her carriage, and asked the king in what direction he wished the promenade to drive.

  • Monsieur, hardly knowing in what direction to inflict his weariness, went to Madame's apartments dressed in his morning-gown.

  • Speak," said the young man, expecting to be told in what direction to pursue the chase.

  • Here, therefore, the friends were entirely at a loss in what direction to continue the pursuit.

  • True; and I must learn of you in what direction to turn my horse's head," replied Edward Walcott.

  • But then the question arose, In what direction should we go, even supposing that we could form a raft to hold the whole party?

  • Besides, many weeks might pass before we could descend and travel over the dry ground; and even then, in what direction should we go?

  • I should have supposed that they would have had great difficulty in ascertaining in what direction it was to be found, had I not observed that they stopped every now and then and examined the leaves of some of the trees.

  • By what road, or in what direction, had he disappeared?

  • Half a dozen yagers and an officer at length presented themselves; but the landlord had disappeared, she knew not in what direction.

  • Nobody understood exactly for what purpose the tumult had commenced--in what direction it tended.

  • Hardly could it be seen in what direction, or through whose communication, yet in less than a minute a movement of sympathizing horror, and uplifted hands, announced that the dreadful news had reached them.

  • I entered it, and was soon utterly unable to discover in what direction he had gone.

  • The sky was clouded; there was not a breath of air, and we had no certain means of knowing in what direction we were proceeding.

  • The storm sent me along, in what direction I could not tell, though I supposed that it was towards the south.

  • What I wanted to get is where he first saw him as he was standing down here, as he was going up the stairs and stopped and then in what direction he was--he seemed to be moving at that time before he saw.

  • And the camera is pointed in what direction?

  • This is a picture in which the camera appears to be heading in what direction?

  • What direction is the camera facing there?

  • Would your Lordship indicate or explain to me in what direction is the Third Dimension, unknown to me?

  • As the air still baffled and continued light, it was finally determined to sail before it, let it come in what direction it might, so long as it did not blow the ark upon the strand.

  • We were moving with frightful rapidity through the water; but in what direction I had no means of knowing.

  • In what direction is the drifting to extend?

  • After they have blasted a ways, we can tell something from the character of the rock in what direction it will be best to run the drift.

  • He had been able to get together much additional proof regarding the fraudulent transactions of the company, even ascertaining in what direction much of the revenue due the New York company had gone.

  • When it first left the hand of the thrower, we could not decide in what direction it was going, but after making numberless circles in the air, it never failed to hit the object intended.

  • Being a nocturnal animal he is more generally captured during the day-time, for the bright light of the sun puzzles him and he knows not in what direction to make his escape.

  • I had just got near enough to fire, when it broke from its cover in fine style and, after taking a few jumps to see in what direction to go, it started forward over the open ground without apparent effort.

  • On coming off Malaga, we found to our disappointment that the princes had fled, in what direction no one would inform us.

  • We there found that the Duke of Guise had taken his departure, but in what direction we could not discover.

  • No answer was given to this message, but after a short time it was discovered that the two princes had fled, though in what direction we were, as before, unable to ascertain.

  • But this fairy fog has risen around me, and I have lost my way, so that I know not now in what direction to go.

  • Watch him closely," cried Maildun; "and observe exactly in what direction he is flying!

  • We were nearly a mile from the wreck, I suppose, when night came on; but the captain took her bearings by the compass, that he might know in what direction to look for her should he be able to make sail before the morning.

  • We were looking about to ascertain in what direction to bend our steps, when a fine deer started out from among the trees on our right into the open glade.

  • The question now was, In what direction should I proceed?

  • The darkness, too, prevented me from seeing the features of the country, and I was thus utterly unable to ascertain in what direction I was going.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tepid water; what amount; what appeared; what cause; what causes; what comes; what ever; what evidence; what has; what has gone before; what little; what may; what news; what next; what precedes; what reason; what she; what ways; what you have done; whatever comes; whatever cost; whatever their; whatever thou; whatsoever things; whatsoever thou; willing mind