northwardly

European geographers, however, extended the name northwardly as far as the mountains extended; some giving it, after their separation into different ridges, to the Blue Ridge, others to the North Mountain, others to the Alleghany, others to the Laurel Ridge, as may be seen by their different maps.

Notes on the State of Virginia 1853

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Fredricka, it's starting to pull up to the north, that's the big change that we're seeing here and the advisory at this time and so we're seeing the northwardly pull and it's going to moving in, we think, over the next less than 12 hours now before landfall.

CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005 2005

Some maps spread it out unto the sea of Gennesaret; some place it a long way above that sea northwardly; the former not well, -- the latter exceedingly ill.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

It will be impossible, unless I am very much mistaken, if you take the beginning of that circumference in Nehemiah, for the corner looking north-east, which some do, -- to interpret these words of Jeremiah in any plain or probable sense; unless you imagine that which is most false, -- that the Valley of Hinnom was situate northwardly.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

In its selection of a site the committee believes that it should consider the reasonably expected growth of this part of Virginia, and that it should reasonably anticipate the future extension westwardly and northwardly of the present populous areas, having in mind also the needs of the adjacent rural communities of Virginia.

Board of Visitors minutes 1956

Princess Anne in behalf of themselves and the other inhabitants of this colony, humbly shows: That the point of land called Cape Henry bounded eastward by the Atlantic Ocean, northwardly by Chesapeake

The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton

Proceeding thence northwardly to thirty-six and a half degrees, we enter those assigned to the mammoth.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

In order to gain as much time as possible, Stut and the boys concluded to push across, and move northwardly along the eastern bank, as it was evident the eastern shore afforded the best route.

The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages Roger Thompson Finlay

This was evidence that the land projected northwardly, and the Professor suggested that the effort should be made to chart as accurately as possible the shore line.

The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Roger Thompson Finlay

He soothed her and denied that there was danger; he did not venture to tack again, however, for fear of being swamped, but determined to run northwardly along the coast in the hope of getting ashore on some sandy beach before the fury of the storm should come.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various