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NORTH-EAST
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the northeast
Synonyms:
nor'-east; north-east; northeast
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Context examples:
At a calculation of a two-mile drift per hour, during the seventy and odd hours of the storm, we had been driven at least one hundred and fifty miles to the north-east.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
My intention was to reach, if possible, one of those islands which I had reason to believe lay to the north-east of Van Diemen’s Land.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton—it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east angle of the island, and there it had lain stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the HISPANIOLA.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And ever we were flung off, farther and farther, to the north-east.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I got upon a height, and looking on every side into the sea; fancied I saw a small island toward the north-east.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Look at that!” I cried involuntarily, pointing to the north-east.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And ever out of the north-east the brave wind blows, driving us on our course two hundred and fifty miles between the dawns.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Fourteen boats require a considerable spread of ocean for comfortable hunting, and when she had completely lapped our line she continued steaming into the north-east, dropping more boats as she went.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
