north by west
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noun
adjective
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The second officer, overlooking these, ordered the helmsman to make it north by west, fifty-seven degrees, but to bring the ship around so gently that the captain wouldn't know it.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
From Formosa we steered west-north-west, and sometimes still more northerly, and on the 5th of November we at last about midnight, got sight of the mainland of China, bearing north by west, four leagues distant.
From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Household, H. W.
He rode forward boldly, however, keeping his eyes upon the stars, and steering, so far as the circuitous lanes would allow him, north by west.
From The Mayor of Troy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Suddenly the officer on the bridge discerned the dim Fire Island Light, bearing north by west, twenty miles distant.
From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)
No sooner does the sun set north by west, than, like a giant refreshed, it rises again north by east.”
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
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