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Usage examples of northern.

A forest overspread the northern side of the Seine, but on the south, the ground, which now bears the name of the University, was insensibly covered with houses, and adorned with a palace and amphitheatre, baths, an aqueduct, and a field of Mars for the exercise of the Roman troops.

Towards the end of June the rainfall, which had been way above average for eight weeks, eased off and a series of anticyclones began to establish themselves across the northern hemisphere.

Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, was assigned Jaluit and Mili in the southern Marshalls and Makin in the northern Gilberts.

At the begin- ning of my apprenticeship, he once built two small fires in the mountains of northern Mexico.

But Henry had no mind to break through his general policy by allowing a feudal baronage to plant themselves by force of arms in Ireland, as they had in earlier days settled themselves in northern England and on the Welsh border.

Ridgeland lost for twenty minutes, Barth got them to Dinsmor Estates, a posh community on the northern edge of Jackson.

Mrs Bedo is a northern girl, and must have heard something of what the Blacks are, up on this coast.

After nearing various islands and then being borne away from them by changing currents and winds, the makeshift vessel was wrecked on a reef at Rakahanga in the Northern Cooks, where de Bisschop suffered fatal injuries.

Another Polygonum, the great Bistort, or Snakeweed, and Adderswort, is a common wild plant in the northern parts of Great Britain, having bent or crooked roots, which are difficult to be extirpated, and are strongly astringent.

Both Boron and Kyot were hoping to find the kingdom of the Priest in order to take possession of the Grasal, which would have given them God knows what glory and power in those Northern lands where all were still searching for it.

The northern warlords who had been lured to Ireland to kill Brian Boru and claim her as their reward were all dead.

From then onwards Sir Redvers Buller was massing his troops at Chieveley in preparation for a great effort to cross the river and to relieve Ladysmith, the guns of which, calling from behind the line of northern hills, told their constant tale of restless attack and stubborn defence.

I sailed off on the Rio Viboro Campaign to drive the accursed French back from the southern coast of the northern mainlandit was those swine, trespassing excommunicants, who built the older part of this very fort, you know, Don Felipeand when I returned to Habana, he was already wed to the daughter of a well-heeled creole merchant.

In this piece, one confronts the beginnings of Gothic carving and the tremendous expressionism of the northern world .

The powerful succor of Flanders, Frise, and Denmark, filled near a hundred vessels: and the Northern warriors were distinguished in the field by a lofty stature and a ponderous battle-axe.