What is "north-east"

Usage examples of "north-east".

A river so-called, really a brook, the Ancre, runs at the foot of the slope and turns eastward beyond Thiepval, where a ridge called Crucifix Ridge north-east of the village takes its name from a Christ with outstretched arms visible for many miles around.

As soon as the water is closed off, Corvinus leaves Becco at the basin and follows the course of the Augusta back down the mountains until he reaches the rest of us north-east of Vesuvius.

He was writing articles for magazines and I would get an occasional blast of the Dunster anger and contempt from Africa, or Washington, or some town hall in the north-east of England.

Here the huge Fiumara, sweeping grandly from north-east to south-west, forms a charming narrow and a river-like run about a mile and a half long--phenomenal again in sun-scorched Arabia.

Leaving the Far West behind us, we struck out towards the North-East, in the direction of the Flinders River.

By the time it reached the eastern American seaboard a north-easter was blowing, and a score of meteorologists drew their isobars and noted laconically that winter would be early this year.

A country that lies somewhere to the north-east of the lake island on which the Pongo used to dwell?

We were in an apartment on the north-east side of the quadrangular building, where the sunshine never entered.

By the night of Sunday, February 11th, this formidable force had concentrated at Ramdam, twenty miles north-east of Belmont, and was ready to advance.

There was no risk attending the journey, as although Charlesbourg lay not very far from Quebec, to the north-east and in the environs of Montmorenci, it was out of the beat of the besieging forces, and could be reached by a circuitous route free from all interruptions.

De Bisschop decided to visit the north-east corner of the Pacific in this vessel.

From there guns could fire along the low beach to the west, northwards over the shallow Marigot Bay, and also round to the north-east, into Gallows Bay itself.

More orders followed as de la Mery increased sail, tacking out of the bay into the north-east wind.

By the time we were all on the North-East Ridge and climbing it, the visibility was close to zero, the temperature had dropped about fifty degrees, the snow was thick and mushy and treacherous, and we could hear but not see avalanches roaring down both the East Face of K2 and this very slope somewhere both ahead of us and behind us in the fog.

Here lie the principal ruins, forming a rude parallelogram from north-east to south-west.