northward
adverb
Also northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
northwardly
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a word derived from
northward.
Example Sentences
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As soon as he heard of his approach, he abandoned the ground, and fled northwardly to the city of Cyme, and sought refuge there.
From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Despairing of this, we directed very considerable quantities, collected on the navigable waters, to be sent northwardly by the quarter-master.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
They went through without halting, crossed the river Oise, and at four o'clock halted on the eastern banks of a stream, which flowed northwardly.
From The Boy Volunteers with the French Airman by Kenneth Ward
Another struck off northwardly, towards a bend in the West Branch, where the rapids afforded an opportunity for crossing the stream without impeding his flight.
From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by V. V. Vide
Her course was northwardly in a line with the shore, close to which she kept.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
