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    northwards


    1. The snow builds up, and the weight causes it to pack into the ice and push southward from the north pole and northwards from Antarctica


    2. And then his gaze shifted northwards, and he came across what must have been the strangest sight so far that Jack had seen that day


    3. Once outside the breakwater, the mainsail was hoisted and the boat sailed northwards


    4. 2 But Seth and his children, dwelt northwards on the mountain of the Cave of Treasures, in order to be near to their father Adam


    5. 2 But Seth and his children dwelt northwards on the mountain of the Cave of Treasures in order to be near to their father Adam


    6. He died within the first six weeks even though they’d managed to get far away enough from the radiation, thanks to the strong south winds blowing the toxic air northwards


    7. I continued my trek northwards to freedom


    8. Therefore, based on my objective analysis of the situation I decided to leave Wagner and continue my trek northwards to Oregon


    9. I had to continue northwards


    10. Otherwise, I would've trekked northwards

    11. Those four pairs of agents will sweep northwards along the four main North-South roads and land routes in Italy, while I will travel southwards down the western coastal road of Italy


    12. Most of the guns could be directed northwards and did fire at the invaders


    13. The Allies continued to push the Germans northwards through Italy for the rest of the year; thus bringing the Allied Mediterranean strategy to a successful conclusion


    14. Arriving at the same conclusion, Eisenhower ordered Patton, the controversial and flamboyant American general to suspend current operations and wheel 90 degrees; shifting his troops two hundred and fifty kilometers northwards to strike through the German flank and reinforce Mcauliffe at Bastogne


    15. This will be a key industrial development with linkages to the new international airport and destinations further northwards along the Indian Ocean coast


    16. They mounted up and rode for another day, still following the mish-mash of prints that continued to lead them inexplicably northwards


    17. On the following day they continued northwards at a more leisurely pace


    18. Down at our feet stretched the calm silver of the Jasmunder Bodden, the biggest of those inland seas that hollow out the island into a mere frame; and a tongue of pine-forest, black and narrow, curved northwards between its pale waters and the vigorous blue of the sea


    19. Not far away – northwards along the banks of the creek – Johnny watched Caesar shoot between the gums in hot pursuit


    20. He started moving northwards, but the old man signalled, saying, “Not that way

    21. Without having really discussed it, they gradually started moving northwards again (homewards


    22. They were steadily driving northwards on a main road


    23. Karlov ignored them both, leading them out of the village and up the highway, northwards toward Stonegard


    24. At each call, he outlined his search for documents showing the movement of any ancient religious relics from across the sea and, possibly, northwards to a resting place inland


    25. He sat back and tried to enjoy the journey but his eyes did not see the passing countryside, he did not notice the crowds in the stations where they stopped, he almost fell asleep as the train wound its way northwards towards Gaillac and was soon awakened by the grinding halt it came to at a small halt close to Cordes-sur-Ciel


    26. Toulouse northwards, via Limoges to Tours then change and travel across country via Angers and Rennes and so on to St


    27. “driven by strong winds northwards … [was] forced to return to Spain by


    28. The Barbeg looked northwards


    29. They followed the coastline northwards


    30. `At once I took my leave of Denethor, but even as I went northwards, messages came to me out of Lurien that Aragorn had passed that way, and that he had found the creature called Gollum

    31. If any of you had thought of returning northwards to


    32. `I have myself been at whiles in Rohan, but I have never crossed it northwards


    33. What did that mean? Bregalad was standing up erect and tense, looking back northwards towards Derndingle


    34. their eyes were bent northwards


    35. be clearly seen, pale and dusty; one winding back northwards; another dwindling eastwards into the mists that clung about the feet of Ered Lithui; and a third that ran towards him


    36. The shards came severally to shore: one was found among the reeds where watchers of Gondor lay, northwards below the infalls of the Entwash; the other was found spinning on the flood by one who had an errand in the water


    37. once swift riders were sent out to gather what news they could northwards; and eastwards from Osgiliath and the road to Minas Morgul


    38. Soon the dwindling company, following the Isen, turned west and rode through the Gap into the waste lands beyond, and then they turned northwards, and passed over the borders of Dunland


    39. "Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the coast of Andres! An' you consated his body lay under! Why, I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above," he pointed northwards, "or where the currants may have drifted them


    40. In the weeks that followed they moved slowly northwards up the coast, through all the many fishing villages, Ular and Chendar and

    41. "Well, they were heading northwards when they were last seen and


    42. I turned northwards, marvelling, towards the iron gates of Hyde Park


    43. With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here and there by the Sperm Whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands, and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season there


    44. From Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland


    45. But your direction was northwards


    46. In the morning, a large flight of wild geese went over the city northwards, making a great noise


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    Synonyms for "northwards"

    north northerly northward northwards

    "northwards" definitions

    in a northern direction