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in the north

adv. in a northern direction; "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!" [syn: north, to the north, northerly, northwards, northward]

Usage examples of "in the north".

His own father had unsuccessfully attempted something much smaller with his campaign of regicide and concubinage in the North Coast states.

From the Free Canadians in the north, down through the combined Pacific American-Football City Army in the middle to the anxious Texans in the south, the democratic troops rolled through the areas obliterated by the cluster bombs, got behind the Circle-sponsored trench troops and began a series of wide encircling pincer movement.

The sky In the north and overhead lay the constellations with which Park was familiar, though here they looked upside down.

He'd hardly ever had a Negro talk back to him, not even up here in the North.

That my child had been named for a wine producing area near Barcino in the north had no effect.

In Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, there is a black cook whose wife lives on Robinson's Alley (between Hanover and Unity streets) in the North End (pp.

Once the gossip on the verandahs had all been about war in the north, or the Thugs.

No one in the North Mark will trust him, if he even wanted to return to such a benighted place.