northward
UK /ˈnɔɹθwɚd/ US /ˈnɔɹθwɚd/
noun 1adj 1adv 1
Definitions
noun
1
The direction or area lying to the north of a place.
adj
1
Situated or directed towards the north; moving or facing towards the north.
adv
1
Towards the north; in a northerly direction.
When she came, I could see at a glance she was tired and jaded and worried, and so, instead of letting her fret about in the hotel and get into a wearing tangle of gossip, I packed her and two knapsacks up, and started off on a long, refreshing, easy-going walk northward, until a blister on her foot stranded us at the Magenruhe Hotel on the Sneejoch.
[T]he trees blew stedfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward— […]
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