A wind that blows from the north.
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Examples for "northerly "
Examples for "northerly "
1 In temperate latitudes the shrubbery predominates, especially in the most northerly parts.
2 Eel River flows about 130 miles northerly and, say, forty miles westerly.
3 Currently a fire is travelling in a northerly direction towards Wilson Road.
4 A strong northerly was blowing ahead of the rain front, he said.
5 Shandon looked in a northerly direction, and shuddered in spite of himself.
1 They quite comprehend the position in which the norther has placed them.
2 You don't come in; you simply stand out in the industrial norther .
3 The old man's expression was hard and cold as a blue norther .
4 Then the wind changed and there came a blue norther from the northeast.
5 A wet scirocco had replaced the bright norther and saddened all the view.
1 The chill north wind smelled clean after the odors of the store.
2 We reach Cader Sedat by sailing due north into a north wind .
3 All through April the north wind blew and the nights were frosty.
4 Nature would go on though under the thumb of the north wind .
5 Early this morning the north wind advanced upon us, sword in hand.
1 To tell the truth, Boreas was not as hardhearted as he looked.
2 The Amaranth was within three hundred yards of the Boreas , and still gaining.
3 These pests, the oracle declares, the sons of Boreas shall restrain.
4 Here Santa pretended to be very gruff himself, but Boreas saw through it.
5 This was by the Boreas River in the deep forest.
6 And behind them the two sons of Boreas raising their swords rushed in pursuit.
7 Over the hills of Vanderwhacker, under the woods of Boreas .
8 But it's worth it to briefly impersonate Boreas , the ancient Greek god of winter.
9 Boreas and the bird of Jove,- Iwillvanquish them both.
10 But the Amaranth's head was almost abreast the Boreas 's stern:
11 Boros (Boor-ross) Possibly derived from Boreas , the Greek name for the North Wind.
12 They were compressed gales of wind that Boreas handed down over the hills in chunks.
13 Then I drink to Boreas and all the fiends of Gehenna, and am supremely content.
14 I concluded that she was a sister-in-law to BOREAS .
15 And the ' Boreas , ' that was lost in a gale.
16 He was pilot in the ' Boreas , ' and he is doing the same sort of work here.
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