Use north in a sentence
Sentences starting with north
- North took a whole week to screw up His courage, h-s M-j-sty pricking him every day. [9]
- North of this the land comes down to the sea in knolls of rock breaking off suddenly-rocks gray with lichen, and shaded with a touch of other vegetation. [4]
- North America is separated by Spain. [5]
- North Carolina thus owned what is now the State of Tennessee; and South Carolina and Georgia owned, in separate parts, what are now Mississippi and Alabama. [7]
- North American Review: its predecessor, 28, 29, 33; the writers, 34; Emerson's contributions, 73; Ethics, 294, 295; Bryant's article, 328. [6]
- North Carolina was divided, and thus its vote was lost; and Delaware, Georgia, and New Jersey refused to vote. [7]
Sentences ending with north
- A romantic gorge, with a brook flowing in its bottom, approaching Palmerston North. [5]
- Six months later William Rufus Holly, a deacon in holy orders, journeyed to Athabasca in the Far North. [11]
- Were it not well to pause in time, and go back to your wild North? [11]
- I believe that was the beginning of my charity toward the North. [9]
- Besides, the atmosphere was sultry, and the scorching sun struggled with the thunderclouds gathering in heavy masses at the north. [10]
- Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
- This time she was not mistaken, the beat of hoofs echoed on the air, and it came from the north. [10]
- Great Russell Street was all a sweet fragrance of gardens, mingling with the smell of the fields from the open country to the north. [9]
- Reward for his vigilance came when he descried three more mounted men, far over to the north. [13]
- For hours the Victoire bombarded the lonely rock from the north. [11]
Short sentences using north
- Face me to the north. [11]
- Are you North or South? [9]
- Oh, I have been North. [4]
- Ay, north, Davy. [9]
Sentences containing north two or more times
- But I began to understand the world, and I loved the north, the beautiful hard north. [11]
- My estate is neither North nor South, but farther South than North. [11]
- There be many names of the One Thing, and the human soul hath the same north and south, if there be any north and south and east and west, save in the words of men. [11]
- Is it too much to say that whether the war is hopeless or not for the North depends chiefly on the answer to the question, whether the North has virtue and manhood enough to persevere in the contest so long as its resources hold out? [6]
- Hither the two had come after he had been cast away on the icy plains, and as the settlement had crept north, had gone north with it, always on the outer edge of house and field, ever stepping northward. [11]
- While its commercial connection with the North was intimate and vital, its literary relation with the North was slight. [4]
More example sentences with the word north in them
- I would like you to provide a proper outfit and start north as soon as I telegraph you, be it night or be it day. [5]
- I will teach you how to know, I will lead you through all the north and make you to understand the big things of life. [11]
- Where you sit, you are in Tennessee; I'm in North Carolina. [4]
- Let's see, how would they put it in the Call?--'Extraordinary Discovery --Herd of buffaloes found in the far North by an Englishman and his Franco-Irish Party--Sport for the gods--Exodus of 'brules' to White Valley! [11]
- Travelling north, you would have come to the Turnagain River; west, to the Frying Pan Mountains; south, to a goodly land. [11]
- My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions. [5]
- Then he said without lookin' at me,--'It is the spirit of the White Valley and the Hills of the Mighty Men; of which all men shall know, for the North will come to her spring again one day soon, at the remaking of the world. [11]
- The South flushed with triumph and tempted to excess; the North, betrayed as they believe, brooding on wrong and burning for revenge. [7]
- He had quarrelled with North, lost his place on the Admiralty, and presently the King had made him a Lord of the Treasury, tho' more out of fear than love. [9]
- I left Charlestown with honor, I studied law at Salisbury in North Carolina, and I have come here to practise it. [9]
- Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
- The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
- She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out--or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. [5]
- Austen merely inquired whether this was not when they had left the station at North Mercer, two miles away. [9]
- And one day, when a north wind had scattered the smoke and swept the sky, Howard followed her up the paths to the ridge's crest, where she stood like a Victory, her garments blowing, gazing off over the mighty billows to the westward. [9]
- She well knew what was passing in the father's mind, for the day before he had brought all sorts of artist's materials, and told her to arrange the little gable-room, with the large window facing towards the north, and put the easel and colors there. [10]
- They won that western country for themselves with no Federal nor Virginia or North Carolina troops to help them. [9]
- He and Zoe were going north, to take a farm somewhere. [11]
- Gawdor thought we were going for gold, because I had said I knew a place in the north where there was gold in a river--I know the place, but that is no matter. [11]
- To the north were booms of logs, swilling in the current, waiting for their devourer. [11]
- From Switzerland I went to a foggy place called London, and thence I crossed the ocean to the solemn forests of the north of Canada, where I was many years, learning the characters of these gentlemen who are looking in upon us. [9]
- Some say he went east some say west, some north, some south--but all say they did not wait to notice, particularly. [5]
- Perhaps I ain't well known hereabouts, but back up North there's Mormons who'd rest uneasy in their graves at the idea of me sittin' to table with you. [13]
- The summer--or what we call summer in the North, which is usually a preparation for warm weather, ending in a preparation for cold weather --seemed to me very short--but I have noticed that each summer is a little shorter than the preceding one. [4]
- Now, it's this way: you can go West with Bantry, or you can go North with me. [11]
- To-day its sacred waters are still sweet, but soon it will taste as salt as the north sea with all the tears that have been shed on its banks. [10]
- The lawyer's captain was to cruise in the North Pacific, and he could not go back or make a port without orders. [5]
- She knew he was thinking what all the North knew, that she was the first person to take the Dog Nose Rapids in a canoe, down the great river scarce a stone's-throw from her door; and that she had done it in safety many times. [11]
- The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
- But the Judge was raised farther north, and perhaps he has some horrid idea of what this people might be induced to do. [7]
- I heard they was only thirty miles north this afternoon. [11]
- The north wind was now blowing so violently from the sea that it was difficult to keep the torches and lamps lighted. [10]
- But the earth was moving under it, and as it rolled from west to east the plane running through the north and south poles was every instant changing. [6]
- Eh, well, there was more than one devil made sometime in the North West. [11]
- The blonde's captain was bound on a whaling cruise in the North Atlantic and could not go back such a distance or make a port without orders; such being nautical law. [5]
- Fronting the north was a window like an eye, ever watching the tireless Paternosters. [11]
- Clemens could hardly walk next morning, but they managed to get to North Ashford, where they took a carriage for the nearest railway station. [5]
- These two American volumes succeeding Pierre were published under the title of An Adventurer of the North and A Romany of the Snows respectively. [11]
- There cometh a voice from out the North And a face of living flame-- A man's soul crying, Behold what worth Was life till her sweet soul came-- Heart of the World break forth! [11]
- Sterling and the villages north, where there's universal gun-packing and fights every day--where there are more men like him, it seems to me they would attract him most. [13]
- We have in view the whole of the great north transept--empty, and waiting for England's privileged ones. [5]
- Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
- Then, it was very peculiarly and decidedly north. [7]
- The proprietor, a very intelligent and enterprising man, who had traveled often in the North, was full of projects for the development of his region and foremost in its enterprises, and had formed a considerable collection of minerals. [4]
- The Red River Valley, the Saskatchewan Valley, and British Columbia, are now belted by a great railway, and given to the plough; but in the far north life is much the same as it was a hundred years ago. [11]
- It commanded the valley, had no house near it, and was sheltered from the north wind by the hill-top which rose up behind it a hundred feet or more. [11]
- An', Jane, this valley swings round almost north before it goes east. [13]
- A pleasant green valley lay to the north, and to the south, far off, was the wall of rosy hills that hid the captured town. [11]
- Sometimes we ran upon them in the water, where they looked like the rough-bark pine logs from the North, and Nick would have a shot at them. [9]
- The commendation bestowed upon Motley's historical essays in "The North American Review" must have gone far towards compensating him for the ill success of his earlier venture. [6]
- Hasn't everybody stood up and said there wasn't anyone like her in the North? [11]
- She had rode two hundred miles from the south-west, and was making for Fort Micah, sixty miles farther north. [11]
- Consequently, wages were twice as high in the North as they were in the South, because the one wage had that much more purchasing power than the other had. [5]
- Soon a faint, tremulous light appeared in the north. [10]
- That was the Treasury Bench, where Lord North sat (he was wide awake, now). [9]
- Himself, as he travelled here and there through the North, had heard of the Tall Master. [11]
- Herbert and I, traveling north one summer, fancied that we could draw in New England a sort of diet line, like the sweeping curves on the isothermal charts, which should show at least the leading pie sections. [4]
- I wrote The Trail of the Sword because the early history of the struggles between the French and English and the North American Continent interested me deeply and fascinated my imagination. [11]
- The first Italian town which the stranger sees he is sure to remember, the outdoor life of the people is so different from that at the North. [4]
- Caniza is a town in Lower Hungary, north of the River Drave, and just west of the Platen Sea, or Lake Balatin, as it is also called. [4]
- His face turned towards the prairie North and the mountain West where yet remained the hunter's quarry; and he longed to be away with rifle and gun, with his squaw and the papooses trailing after like camp- followers, to eat the fruits of victory. [11]
- It was open towards the north, and in one side was a fissure shaped like a Gothic arch. [11]
- It had not touched her from the day she left the North until she sang "The Chase of the Yellow Swan" that first evening after Frank's return. [11]
- They had been told that the Queen was expected that night, because it was possible that the strong north wind would bear her ship home with unexpected speed after the victory. [10]
- Why from east to west, from north to south in this Province of Quebec my name, my fame, have been all-conquering. [11]
- The North consented to this provision, not because they considered it right in itself, but because they were compensated--paid for it. [7]
- The North responds to the proclamation sufficiently in breath; but breath alone kills no rebels. [7]
- Glaze--Stone Bridge--Sterling, villages to the north, had risen against the invasion of Gentile settlers and the forays of rustlers. [13]
- He had been to the North Pole, and it made him celebrated. [5]
- I ran on to the man--" The governor was leaning forward, looking intently, and said now: "It's like a wild dream--but the north--the north is near to the Strangest of All! [11]
- When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted with--which was the north side--we found a square window-hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it. [5]
- Gaston was not to talk of England, but of the North, of Canada, of Mexico, the Lotos Isles. [11]
- I wish you to take up all the country stretching away from the north pole on all sides for many degrees south, and buy Greenland and Iceland at the best figure you can get now while they are cheap. [5]
- I shall endeavor to take the ground I deem most just to the North, the East, the West, the South, and the whole country. [7]
- Heretofore colored people to some extent have fled North from bondage, and now, perhaps, from both bondage and destitution. [7]
- I should like to see one of them balanced on a pivot properly adjusted, and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south,--as she would, if the love-currents are like those of the earth our mother. [6]
- They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
- Nothing easier than to pry open a door or window in the north wing, by the ball-room. [9]
- She was willing to make any sacrifice; she considered herself just a missionary of provincialism up North, where people had become so cosmopolitan that they dared not enjoy anything. [4]
- His duty was to look down into your heart, and extract therefrom the nefarious scheme you had made to set free the man you loved ere he could be sent north to Alton or Columbus. [9]
- Ye'll fetch back to Kaintuck, and draw every redskin in the north woods suckin' after ye like leaves in a harricane wind. [9]
- In the circumstances, to go north toward hotter weather was not advisable. [5]
- They can't seem to get north of 7 degrees N.; they are still there the next day: [Diary entry] May 12. [5]
- When he came to form governments for the Territories north of the line of 36 degrees 30 minutes, why could he not have let that matter stand as it was standing? [7]
- There was nothing to do but to keep on; and on she went, still to the north, with the noise of the pack behind her. [4]
- Cynthia's mind flew to Bunker Bill and the old North Church, but they went first to Faneuil Hall. [9]
- I went north to Boston, and Lloyd's factor south to Charleston. [9]
- He went away to bed, telling me to be prudent, and mind the colonel's counsel until he returned from the North. [9]
- A concert was to be held after the service on the coming Sunday night, at which there was to be a collection for funds to build another mission- house a hundred miles farther North, and she had been practising music she was to sing. [11]
- Still it is to be considered whether the North Carolinians will not prefer officers of their own. [7]
- After escorting her to a seat on the train, he tactfully retired to the smoking car, not to rejoin her until they were on the trestle spanning the Charles River by the North Station. [9]
- Now, the latter title, A Romany of the Snows, was that which I originally chose for the volume published in England as An Adventurer of the North. [11]
- This practice prevails throughout the American continent from Vancouver's Island in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south. [1]
- We were within three miles of the most poetic place in North America. [4]
- He is also threatening Leesburg and Geary, on the Manassas Gap railroad, from both north and south--in precisely what force we cannot tell. [7]
- And then, as though some supernaturally penetrating ray had pierced a square hole in the lower walls, a glimpse of the interior was revealed to her, of the living room at the north end of the house. [9]
- It looked as though I should be writing of the Far North all my life. [11]
- I will keep this stained letter for them until peace comes back, if it comes in my time, and my pleasant North Carolina Rebel of the Middletown Hospital will, perhaps look these poor people up, and tell them where to send for it. [6]
- But what is this in the morning journal, at breakfast?--"An area of low pressure is moving from the Tortugas north. [4]
- She found herself thinking more and more of her father, her father to whom she had never written one line since she had left the North. [11]
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