Which preposition to use with north
For some time longer, we continued to stare about us, and then, noticing that there was a clear space away to the north of the chasm, we bent our steps in that direction.
As the speed increased, the sun began to sway very slowly in the sky, from South to North, and then, slowly again, from North to South.
His mother accepted this solution of the difficulty more easily than I could have hoped; and our pale-faced boy, who had never known anything more invigorating than Simla, began to encounter the brisk breezes of the North in the subdued severity of the month of May.
They packed their precious sketches, and next morning we set out homeward bound, and in two days entered the Yosemite Valley from the north by way of Indian Cañon.
We are not far enough north for the great displays.
The lake lay to the north with no land beyond, the city to the east.
Two li north from this was the place where the Grâmika girls presented to Buddha the rice-gruel made with milk; and two li north from this was the place where, seated on a rock under a great tree, and facing the east, he ate the gruel.
No one could tell where he was now, but Dick knew that he must be in the city, since there were no exchanges, the Confederates allowing no one to leave the lines except women with the dead, or those who came from the North on special permits.
The Northern papers, which came through the lines quite regularly, left no doubt that Democratic leanings were universally interpreted in the North as evidences of rebel sympathy, if not partisanship.
Another rumour, from the extreme Left this time, was that a large armed force under the command of a well-known general, very high up in his career, was to assemble in the north at Lille, a strong contingent of Republicans were to join them to be ready to act.
A traveler in the sub-Arctic is forced by the deadly cold of the North into a near intimacy of living with his fellows.
I made up my mind, of course, that the box and contents would never get farther north than the studio of my misanthropic friend, in Chambers Street, New York.
Not the east against the west, the north against the south, the "Haves" against the "Have-nots"; but the evil against the good,that is the real conflict of life.
Under this clause of the Constitution, and designed to carry it into effect, slavery has demanded that laws should be passed, and of such a character, as have left the free citizen of the North without protection for his own liberty.
It was the triumph of the North over the South,of the aroused conscience and intelligence of the people against bigotry, arrogance, and wrong.
At 7.0 steered north through a wood of acacia growing on loose sandy soil.
"Gin they send him into the North after West, he'll just have to go.
The Indians soon scattered in every direction, but we followed the main trail to the Republican river, where we made a cut-off, and then went north towards the Platte river.
Some weeks after Flora's disappearance, he announced his intention to travel in the North during the summer months.
In this way began our eight days' confinement within the lines of the German Army of the North under General von Boehn.
Now the wind was more to the east when we left, and, if you remember, it changed to the north about midday.
We found, however, that the Indians by traveling night and day had got a long start, and the General concluded that it was useless to follow them any further, as we had pushed them so hard, and given them such a scare that they would leave the Republican country and go north across the Union Pacific railroad.
In the middle of November the north-east is constant; and it blows, with but little intermission, from the north until April.
[-7-] When, however, a certain star through all those days appeared in the north toward evening, some called it a comet, and said that it indicated the usual occurrences; but the majority, instead of believing this, ascribed it to Caesar, interpreting it to mean that he had become a god and had been included in the number of the stars.
But sudden he lifted his head to the north Like a mountain-beacon his eye blazed forth: 'Twas a cloud in the distance that caught his eye, Whence a faint clang shot on the light breeze by; A noise and a smoke on the plain afar 'Tis the cloud and the clang of the Moslem war.