1174 examples of northwest in sentences

"Remember Custer" was the watchword and battle-cry of the small army of American soldiers who early in the present decade advanced against hostile Indians in the Northwest, who after indulging for weeks in a series of fantastic dances and superstitious rites, were finally called to time by the Government and punished for their disregard of treaty rights and reasonable orders.

Yates' and Custer's men evidently faced northwest.

It has a number of very handsome public buildings, and is the home of many men, who, having made their fortunes in the mines of the new Northwest, have been so impressed with the beauties of scenery and climate, that they have decided to abide where at first they merely intended to sojourn.

Among nearly all the Indians of the Northwest there is a flood story, or legend, and there must be hundreds of Noahs in the minds of the story-tellers.

Idaho is another of the great States of the great Northwest.

The magnificent Mississippi and its tributaries and the vast lakes of the North and Northwest appear to me to fall within the exercise of the power as justly and as clearly as the ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

The whole Northwest appeals to you for relief, and I trust their appeal will receive due consideration at your hands.

But the great Almohad Sultans covered Spain and Northwest Africa with their monuments, and no later buildings in Africa equal them in strength and majesty.

The address he had given Paula was the one he gave every one else, his father's house out on the northwest side, just off Fullerton Avenue.

In 1787, a law was passed by Congress declaring that there should be no slavery in the territory northwest of the river Ohio.

The woods ranged gloomy and impenetrable, save only in the northwest, where a patch of sky lighted by diffused pink and gray revealed one mountain higher than its fellows standing bald against the horizon.

The Northwest Territory and the Ordinance of 1787 Other territories and their government QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT Section 7. Ratification and Amendments.

GROWTH OF THE NORTHWEST XXXIV.

Search for a Northwest Passage; our North Atlantic Coast explored.%All eyes, therefore, turned northward; the quest for a northwest passage began, and in that quest the Atlantic coast of the United States was examined most thoroughly.

Search for a Northwest Passage; our North Atlantic Coast explored.%All eyes, therefore, turned northward; the quest for a northwest passage began, and in that quest the Atlantic coast of the United States was examined most thoroughly.

The attempts to find a southwest passage or a northwest passage through our continent led to the exploration of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

At last, in 1576, Sir Martin Frobisher set out to find a northwest passage to Asia.

In 1609 the company was given an immense domain reaching 400 miles along the coast,200 miles each way from Old Point Comfort,and extending "up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest."

[Footnote 1: Read Hinsdale's Old Northwest, pp. 74, 75.]

In 1609 Henry Hudson, an English sailor in the service of Holland, was sent to find a northwest passage to India.

In the northwest corner of the room, where the mosaic floor is found, very near the angle (already mentioned) of the rock-cut channel, there is a tomb about 6 feet below the surface or level of the floor.

"And the coast bends again to the northwest, as far as Far Out head.

"The coast bends from Dungsbyhead in a northwest direction to the promontory of Dunnet head."Ib., p. 307.

The two best-known wild species are the Passenger Pigeon of the Northwest, and the Mourning Dove, which may be found nesting everywhere in temperate North America.

It was evident that the rush had been northwest, for while we encountered numerous proofs of the armies' passage, graves and shells, trenches and corpses gradually began to disappear.

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