1 But during the years before Gerald married Ellen, the tiny settlement, twenty-five miles north of Tara, slowly grew into a village and the tracks slowly pushed northward.
2 Over the railroads that led down from Virginia to Atlanta and then northward to Tennessee, General Longstreet's corps had been rushed to the scene of the battle.
3 They turned into Madison Avenue and began to stroll northward.
4 She reached Fifth Avenue and began to walk slowly northward.
5 She had walked northward toward the upper shore of Plover Lake, taking to the railroad track, whose directness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedestrians on the plains.
6 Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward.
7 She was somewhere to the northward of the Line.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 8 Stood our old Sammy off to the northward, to get out of the blazing hot weather there on the Line.
9 As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.
10 It was within four miles northward of Exeter.
11 He looked northward towards Howth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 12 They walked northward with a curious feeling of disappointment in the exercise, while the city hung its pale globes of light above them in a haze of summer evening.
13 They are gone down to Newcastle, a place quite northward, it seems, and there they are to stay I do not know how long.
14 In the meantime, while summoned by heralds and by trumpets, the knight was holding his course northward, avoiding all frequented paths, and taking the shortest road through the woodlands.
15 We could not lay him in the ground there in Georgia, for the earth there is strangely red; so we bore him away to the northward, with his flowers and his little folded hands.