north-easterly
Usage examples of "north-easterly".
Soon Kent was visible, three leagues or so, and the Biter was leaning to a good north-easterly and throwing foam.
They sailed in close company on a north-easterly heading, away from the Cape and on a closing course with the eastern reaches of the African mainland.
Continuing in a north-easterly direction, we came to another big room, called the Crystal Palace, in which all the ski and sledging cases were stored.
They have been steadily migrating eastward along the Churchill River, then by way of Cross Lake, Fort Hope, to Abitibi, thence north-easterly clean across the country to Labrador, where few were to be found twenty-five years ago.
Lenormant is entirely wrong, and that the Roman city was not at Squillace, where there are no remains of earlier than mediaeval times, but at Roccella del Vescovo, five or six miles from Squillace in a north-easterly direction, where there are such remains as can only have belonged to a Roman provincial city of the first rank.
Victoria Falls, the intrepid explorer quitted the Zambesi, and took a north-easterly route.
We're on neaps but, with this north-easterly, the westerly tidal stream is bound to be running faster.
When the initial sweep through Winston's Welcome Mat had been made, the flotilla would turn and make another sweep back on a north-easterly course to widen the channel for the cruiser and its three merchant ships.