Meanings of lay north in English

The province lay north of the Potomac River and was called Maryland.

The nearest, which lay north, was evidently sixty or seventy miles off.

Mount Tirthrax lay north of Flaha, another hundred and fifty leagues away.

Two great zones of ice-covered land lay north and south of the equator.

This peak lay north of the trail, and the trail ran east and west.

He remembered his saying to Bogle that his camp lay north of the swamp.

Our course lay north, crossing the river several times.

It was not known to him beforehand whether his destination lay north, south, east, or west.

This island evidently lay north of Japan-atany rate, it would appear so from Toscanelli's map.

The way lay north by, east, almost on the margin of the earliest beginning of the river.

From Amwee our route lay north-east across the Jyntea hills to Joowye, the hill-capital of the district.

The Mongol homeland lay north over mountains and Genghis hungered to see his own land, but pressed on.

Mounds were raised as they are at home, but all lay north and south, the heads apparently north.

Open meadow lay north and east of them, a bubbling brook to the south and a wooded area to the west.

The strength of the centralizing tendencies lay north of the Loire; in the south local privileges were more esteemed and more insisted upon.

Canada lay north, and the tendency of the backwoodsman was to thrust west; among the Southern backwoodsmen, the tendency was south and southwest.