In the north, in the old days, the Chinese restaurants were the only ones that could be depended on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three other gateways, one in the middle of each wall, led north, east, and west. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’s moved to Ramsgate, England, a seaside town on the far east coast of England, south of Margate, north of Sandwich, near where the North Sea meets the Strait of Dover. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of overlapping with my mom’s work. She predicted that the great whites would start heading north.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Douglass came north to escape and find work in the shipyards; a big fellow in a sailor's suit who, like me, had taken another name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma don’t like to hear about the North,” Tony said after a few moments, “because of what might’ve happened to Billy. We know they took him up north, see.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s really the magical north wind come to transform us into...” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the travellers, a squint-eyed ill-favoured fellow, was foretelling that more and more people would be coming north in the near future. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the north, he’d been suffering off and on physically from toothaches and stomachaches. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the field stood their target. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards made their way steadily through Germany until they were stationed north of Berlin, supporting the Red Army as it swept in for a final and brutal victory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Tears filled Pong's eyes as he watched her turn north, following the trail of the orange-scented breeze. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

One block north, at the intersection of Bibb and Commerce streets, a squad car was waiting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We got past the town to the north without seeing any Italians, then after a while came on the main channels of the retreat and walked all night toward the Tagliamento. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once more they took to the road, walking north toward the United States border. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Another cliff-ghast and then a third fell in the stream or on the rocks nearby, stark dead; and then the rest fled, skirling and chittering into the dark toward the north. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people up north think of Texas, it’s Tabitha they think of. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Werfel calculated that they needed to keep going north. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He held it up high above his head, first to the north and then to the south, and then to the east and the west. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

We ran outside and saw a huge cloud, horribly black, moving toward us over the north fields. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

After the soldiers running toward the north had all been wiped out, he hurried back toward the soldiers who had been left surrounded. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Come, Alyce, you can be a knight, too, and we will march north to the stable.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t live at home with her parents, but in a bachelorette apartment in one of the new high-rise buildings on Avenue Road, north of St. Clair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the boat rounded the Laurelhurst light and headed north, it hugged the west shore of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Only the Abbey, part of the beehives, the north side of this wall, and the treetops beyond. What do your eyes see, old one?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that Hercules arrived, to rest and enjoy himself under a friend’s roof on his journey north to Diomedes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the snows drifted forty and fifty feet high and the ice winds came howling out of the north, the tunnels were all that held Castle Black together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And not only her father; every day she heard that another man or woman had said farewell to this iron earth and sky, and started on the journey north. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The ice pack, with Ocean Camp piggybacking along, made a steady three miles north every day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

On the north end of the island, tough vines, almost as large as a pencil, were laced over the sand. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went down the north side of the embankment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Justin stayed two days, filled his belly, and joined his relations in the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘Can you find your way?’ said Beregond at the door of the small hall, on the north side of the citadel, where they had sat. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This time the shaded area had deepened from both the north and south, leaving a small square of white in the middle of the oblong Black Belt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Hunters had set up a defensive line on 37th, just three blocks north of Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They agreed to marry and go ’way up north, where Cholly said steel mills were begging for workers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transformation of warfare by horses began with their domestication around 4000 B.C., in the steppes north of the Black Sea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the corner of the wood, they found the others feeding or basking in the evening sun on the north side of the beech trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever steeper and narrower it wound inward from the north under the shadow of the Thrihyrne, till the crowhaunted cliffs rose like mighty towers on either side, shutting out the light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Little City was what we called the demons’ Sacramento, the provincial capital up to the north. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men knew the direction they were heading—due north—but the river and the surrounding rain forest could still hold plenty of surprises. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Two other forts stood along the Bozeman Trail: Fort Reno, to the south, and Fort C. F. Smith, to the north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I grew up in Plano, a small silicon village in the north. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1780 a telltale surge of mortality traveled north along the heavily traveled road to Santa Fe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Likewise opera, or dramma per musica as it was known in its first, Italian century, spread from its power base in Venice to Naples and Rome, and thence north into Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Shucks, man. I’m going north when I get grown.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I assume he’s after that knife. You know it has a name? The cliff-ghasts of the north call it the god-destroyer,” he went on, crossing to the window and looking down over the cloisters. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nobody comes to Kurkurast Domain in midwinter from the north at night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed the river and drove north through the crowded Pashtunistan Square. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter and grandchildren lived in a mean little place called Rome, twelve miles north of the town she’d left. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the fire was being contained in the south, to the north another story was unfolding. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The air was cooler and the sun was beginning once more to reach the north escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a monkey’s hop across a strait, was the dark side of the moon, imagine what Canada was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

China had developed intensive agriculture based on millets in the north and rice in the south, and with domestic pigs, chickens, and water buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait. A few more days, that’s all. We have crossed half the world, be patient for a few more leagues. Somewhere north of Yunkai our chance will come.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dwarf had given him the truth on the road north, but by then it had been too late. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The accidental visit of Aunt Maggie to Memphis formed a practical basis for my planning to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, its only peer in the United States was the Manhattan Chess Club, forty-nine blocks to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That means we must be north of the bridge, where the city is abandoned. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The wind started blowing out of the north, and suddenly clouds were rushing over the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His parents had been sharecroppers who moved north and became a machinist and a nurse. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that West Baltimore, where I lived; that the north side of Philadelphia, where my cousins lived; that the South Side of Chicago, where friends of my father lived, comprised a world apart. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The cog’s huge striped sail hung limply from her mast, as it had for days, but he was hopeful that they could find a wind somewhere to the north. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He knew that Hazel and the rest had come from the north and crossed the iron road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came upon the promised lake not long after, and turned north as the ranger had bid them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Until the previous night, old Betonie’s vision of stars, cattle, a woman, and a mountain had seemed remote; he had been wary, especially after he found the stars, and they were in the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

From here, Jon Connington had ruled broad lands extending many leagues to the west, north, and south, just as his father and his father’s father had before him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mere 700 miles of north—south distance prevented Mexican corn, squash, and beans from reaching the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Iron Worm squeaks, groans, and clanks—black tankers, rust-colored boxcars, and gray hoppers winding north on a single track that parallels the Pacific coast. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With its loud roaring, the north wind seemed to be laughing at us. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March, Inkatha members launched an attack in Alexandra Township north of Johannesburg in which forty-five people were killed over three days of fighting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom soon received the orders for one of his first missions: he was to accompany his captain and his sergeant in pursuit of cow rustlers in Kent County, north of Abilene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had never been to a Broadway show, or even to New York, which is but seventy miles north, an hour by train from Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once he found it, he would walk north. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only images that came to her were ones she didn’t want to see: three black SUVs driving north from Charleston, packed with Roman demigods, Reyna sitting at the wheel of the lead car. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Uncle Benjen is waiting. I'm to go north to the Wall. We have to leave today, before the snows come." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For some reason I went through there fast and turned north on 71 to Wadena and it got dark and I pounded on to Detroit Lakes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up north, near San Jose. It’s only about 250 miles, so you’ll get a chance to come home on holidays,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

All around them, too, were signs that the Antarctic winter was fast approaching: there were now twelve hours of darkness, and during the daylight hours petrels and terns fled toward the north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Somehow as we left the front gate heading north on Q-gallery, the conversation turned to the last big unrest Sing Sing had had. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia began retreating from Petersburg, Grant had ordered part of his army to head north -9 8 K- and capture Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if some angry god was exacting payment for their easy voyage north, when they had ridden a steady southerly from Drag- onstone to the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You just don’t like her. Well, that’s hard hick. I like her. And why would she be teaching us navigation and all that if she wasn’t going to take us north?’ The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The steel ran south and north presumably, springing from some inconceivable source and shooting toward a miraculous terminus. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And they were farther north than they had been the night before. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for a ride north, I had only to take regular turns at the helm—a four-hour wheel watch every twelve hours—and help tie endless skates of halibut gear. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could Stannis cross to the north bank* Belatedly he realized that the deck was turning, and somehow he had gotten spun about, so castle and battle had changed sides. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street of the bakers was just a short walk north of the Isle of the City. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

East, west, north, south, everywhere he looked, the clouds rose up like black mountains, their tumbled slopes and collossal cliffs alive with blue and purple lightning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s job was teaching remedial reading in an elementary school in Davy, a coal-mining camp twelve miles north of Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as a white heron circled the beach and then headed north toward the open waters of the tropics. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a strange relief when they reemerged into the afternoon light on the north side of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before following the men north into the jungle, she dug her hands into the earth and narrowed her eyes, promising herself that this time she would not fail. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I often thought of Tutok, but on these days especially I would look off into the north and wish that she were here to see me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Austronesian languages are spoken in a narrow strip immediately on the north and southeast coasts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin got lucky and won some Indian land in the lottery, in the north part of Tennessee. Grows corn.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Where’s the best place to find a caravan leaving for the north?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“To the north end of the pond and back again!” shouted the referee. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

To the north was the main road where we had seen the cyclists; to the south there was a small branch-road across the fields with thick trees on each side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The far north of the Isle of Britain. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was like an entirely different forest than the one they had traveled through on their way north. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With weather like this, the regatta promised to draw throngs of people to the beaches at the north end of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Across the highway and walking north again, Lupita said, “I think that man knew where we were going and what we want to do.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Had to send her away, up north I think.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The farther north he got, the more famished his notions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As the light faded from the thick sky, Hazel slipped once more across the hard, bare earth under the railway arch, came out on the north side and sat up to listen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We come from north so he would of went south.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three gateways she’d come from—north, east, and west—began to swirl with Mist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And he said an aunt and uncle had been to see him, and told him they had a coffin waiting to carry him to some little cemetery in north Missouri. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

If by some chance we came in too far north we’d reach the Congo River instead, and could follow that downstream. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the first clearing Mabel found the north star and reoriented. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Indians were and are less numerous in the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So I should be able to avoid it by heading south a ways, letting it pass me to the north, then heading east again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a job, Park traveled north to the border with his wife, where they illegally crossed into China and stayed with his uncle for eighteen months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To the north, the hills and rainforests of Lynn Canyon Park snaked between the subdivisions of North Vancouver until they gave way to the wilderness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We’re a hub, which means that deliveries coming into the capital from up north are dropped off here. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As our train pushed farther north, there was more room to breathe as the dead dropped to the floor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward the pilot flew north and received a medal. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On summer nights, Shin and some of the other small boys in his village would sneak into the orchard just north of the cluster of concrete dwellings where they lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I followed the highway east, and then south, then west, then north, and then east again, until I ended up at the same Meridian Street exit where I’d started. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hill offered com-manding views, and the slopes were precipitous to the north and west and only slightly more gentle to the east. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, there was another way off the mountain to the north and west, along paths much gentler than the one that had brought them up here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where a country road wound north and south. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And the more days that passed and the more north we got, seemed like Ma’s idea ’bout bumbly bees and ants wasn’t as much a waste of time as I thought at first. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They met at Aulis, a place of strong winds and dangerous tides, impossible to sail from as long as the north wind blew. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they all drive north together, and El Tirindaro walks his clients around Border Patrol checkpoints, giving wide berth to the agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some girls journeying north cut off their hair, strap their breasts, and try to pass for boys. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Men watched from the Wall behind him, he knew, but their eyes were turned north, not south. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

An urgent message is handed to General Washington at a lookout post along the Hudson River north of New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the steward says he’s looking north, go the way they least expect, west. That’s what Father Quinel said to do.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Delanys had old ties to the region, pruning the family tree into a lopsided sight: abundant and many-cousined in the north, sparse and faceless in the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then he looked to the north and saw the thing he was missing in his life. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If there was a ship sailing north on the morrow, it would be well to be on it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But on the north wall of the room there was an old war shield hanging from a wooden peg set into the white clay wall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three days’ walk north of this valley brought him to Songdo. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We saw Kostor, which is four miles high, from foot to crest; the huge slant of its western slope hid the peaks north of it, some of which go up to thirty thousand feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two months later, the family hears from a man who was among the group headed north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“No...it’s in Angeles National Forest. Much closer. Due north rather than east.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They sped north under whale-power, and at Hazel and Frank’s insistence, Percy settled in for a nap. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see any good passes to the north. But I like that idea better than backtracking south. I’m done with Rome.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Farming in the north was subsistence farming, nothing more; and nothing could be less. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped back down into die cool dark and rode slowly downhill toward the silent empty country to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

North and further north they ran, while the pallid noontide came and went and the twilight wrapped itself again around the world. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I pass through the main lot and turn into the open asphalt on the north side of the store, where employees park. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At least until it was time for them to move to a run-down walk-up north of 125th Street, whose air smelled of mildew and dog. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the preparations were complete, she had nothing to do but contemplate her finished draft and wait for the appearance of her cousins from the distant north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the icy morning of December 13th, Revere rode north through deep snow to warn the local militia that the British were on their way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s aunt Rose and the rest of his family all lived up north, and Mama’s people were dead and gone long before Ophie had been born. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Past the edges of the buildings, the gray-green river snaked north to south, dotted with boats zipping up and down the invisible lanes of traffic. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I am with Volpe at his town house in Yardley, Pennsylvania, a pleasant community about fifteen miles north of Truman High. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her mind turned to the problem of which direction was north and in which direction lay the town of Point Hope. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Will he now? We'll see. You tell him this, m'lord. You tell him he's bound on marching the wrong way. It's north he should be taking his swords. North, not south. You hear me?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He gave me the keys to the south end of the gallery, and he took the north. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kind of grunt, but no noise of falling, came dearly on the north wind, and then the boar was gone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was of the north, and shared the Stark views on tournaments. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fire was miles away to the north, a distant, pulsing red sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other people from our town had gone north. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When true daylight arrived, they had come to the edge of the wood, and now the hills stood all about, being very high toward the north, where the Welsh mountains loomed in the blue distance. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

There had been a great battle in the north all day. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He sent most of his men across to face the British and others north to defend Fort Washington and Harlem. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two windows in the roof, one was blocked with boards, the other was a narrow dormer window on the north side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We had a citywide emergency on our hands, as there is no greater affliction for the southern mind than people up north coming down to fix our way of life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t back at Dartmouth or over in one of the plush private hospitals on Chicago’s north side, where money wasn’t an issue. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It makes me think of a friend I once had, who thought that north was whatever direction he was facing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I used to like to go north, up on the Panhandle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian’s position on the north side of the strait gave his army full access to supplies coming from Italy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“While sitting there on a bench, I noticed a large flight of aircraft approaching from the north- west.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the north, wispy and cottony streaks extended down from fiery clouds, a gorgeous pink rain falling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If them people ever...ever take you north again and you don’t try reaching Canada, I’m-a make you a promise right here. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Padding silently over the cold ground from the north, separately, singly, came a number of armored bears—a large number, and among them was their king. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

According to my Baptist Sunday-school teachers, a child is denied entrance to heaven merely for being born in the Congo rather than, say, north Georgia, where she could attend church regularly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He couldn’t say for sure. Maybe east or west; maybe north or south. It was hard to tell. He said mostly she was sort of spinning around like a dust devil.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was seventeen years old they had sent him north with eighty dollars hidden in his shoe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I took my gun and hunted all round the place, but I couldn’t find him. I saw some more of his tracks. He’d gone on north, farther into the Big Woods.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused as cannon fire boomed again from the north. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just received some bad news. The emperor has conscripted the men of a village north of here and we”—the king hesitated and glanced around warily—“and we...have friends there.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Millions of us had laid our hoes down on the dry ground and faced north. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the three of us are in Dad’s car, driving north on 1-5. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A heavy timber framework was constructed in the north tower. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

We emerged in Central Park just north of the Pond. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I drink grape Freshie, which does not taste like grapes but like something you might use to kill insects, and wonder when we’re going to leave for the north. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to leave out the west exit, but the north doors were closer, so I headed for them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They finally made it to a rectangular cut in a long wall to the north that looked like a doorway without a door. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were still moving up the tide about north by northwest, but the breeze from the south had shifted just enough to bring them gently to port. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, east first, then north. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already mentioned the ecological differences between China’s cool, dry north and warm, wet south. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The family home in the north—Briony imagined streets of blackened mills, and grim men trudging to work with sandwiches in tin boxes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On a curving road I might have been traveling east or south or west instead of the north I wanted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched north, skirting the edge of the city, and headed to the Field of Mars—the largest, flattest part of the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, guided by Kehaar, he was running up the open pasture north of the river, straight for the brick arch in the overgrown railway embankment and the fields that lay beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers carry a stream of accounts of people injured or killed during the trek north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was an ideal location: the hillside perch provided little cover for approaching predators, while the line of trees protected the foxes from the north winds. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I turned down Water Street, which ran north past Henry’s house, and as I approached I saw a dark shadow in the back of his garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him the lane lay to the north, though he couldn’t be certain about that. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

While Neanderthals lived in glacial times and were adapted to the cold, they penetrated no farther north than northern Germany and Kiev. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Piper relayed the vision from her knife about the SUVs racing north. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To the north the fog still hung over the heavy river, but it was the first time for days that there seemed to be a promise of clearing it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jahara was too far north for such a slow ship like the Crux to get to before the Black Beauty, even if she was making a detour to Oxscini. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Being so hungry is why we haven’t walked north in so long. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he removed the .30-30 from the saddle scabbard and walked north, into a faint evening breeze. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Hampden was so far north, and because the buildings were old and expensive to heat, the school was closed during January and February. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but he’s got Hill’s whole Corps behind him. Maybe twenty-five thousand. And Longstreet behind that. And Ewell in the north.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a reprise of my first attempt on the north face. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this summer, this first summer when he was allowed to have “visitation rights” with his father, with the divorce only one month old, Brian was heading north. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

You turn north, pull your hood up again, and play hot lava all the way there. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Anyway, when the marriage went south, his dad went north. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The whole ice pack was moving in a clockwise direction, sweeping west and north with the current, up along the Antarctic Peninsula. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To the north, past the beach, the Long Island Sound glittered in the sunlight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Montag began walking and after a moment found that the others had fallen in behind him, going north. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was his place, here in the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though the world's wind blew strong as ever straight from the north now, the brown sail hung slack, unstirred. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We flew near Victoria Falls and then headed north through a mountain range. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger wearing black was viewed with cold suspicion in every village and holdfast north of the Neck, and men would soon be watching for him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Jingle Boy’s reins and led him north. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are racketing around up north somewhere and I would have the house to myself; but my idea of myself and my parents’ idea of me no longer belong in the same place. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I realize something about all the suicides traipsing north, north, north to a nowhere place where the Highlands melt into the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But all during the drive north, and then east, Jody had joked and laughed and chattered and not seemed to mind that I only said, "My" or "Gosh" or "You don't say." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Rocks and Rising States Ledge and the shoals of Eagle Island on the south; on the north, Bowditch Ledge. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many relatives from the north had arrived for the Moon Festival and were staying for the week. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root caught up with Foaly at the base of the north tower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When we come back down from the north it’s like coming down from a mountain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The storm rolls away north to reveal a blue sky and a land clean and glistening. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The north coast of Africa was where they finally beached their ships. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I pull into a gas station, and the boy there—who can’t be much older than me—tells me there are some lakes up north a ways off US 150. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At last the day of departure came, and a great and fair company made ready to ride north from the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The group moved north on the road, returning to the Ivanov house. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, a sound like a rolling drumbeat rose from the north. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Leo hoped Hazel was right about the long detour north. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They drove home, talking about it, traveling north on the road that led to Thurmont along the foot of Catoctin Mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is an old family friend. I have a letter for him in that envelope, asking him to take you north.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tirelessly he strode from Citadel to Gate, from north to south about the wall; and with him went the Prince of Dol Amroth in his shining mail. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

To the north and south, strips of land stretched out like arms enclosing the bay, and sitting in the mouth of the harbor, about a mile out, was an island with a stone fort. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He must not give the foe time to form up on the north bank. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The route from Gross-Rosen to Dachau, north of Munich, took us through Czechoslovakia and back into Germany again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he did— first to the east then to the south then to the west and finally to the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t ask you to follow me. Any of you. I just felt, believed”—I swallow—“hiking north, trying to cross in front of an oncoming fire, was wrong.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When this happened, they would travel farther north and ask for help from Chief Mwase, who always assisted them with maize and goats. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am, I’m very grateful. We’re still rising. I guess we’ll go on up awhile yet. How many of you will it take to pull us north?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The remains of Alexandra can be found about ten miles north of Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Tent City was dry wilderness and a mile north of it was the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As if to his eyes some sudden vision had been given, Gandalf stirred; and he turned, looking back north where the skies were pale and clear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Werner can receive the BBC from the north and propaganda stations from the south; sometimes he manages to snare random flits of Morse code. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“There was a four-car pileup north of town,” the police officer explained, “with injuries.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert was the first to recognize that the Earth itself is a magnet, and that this is why the compass needle points to the north. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Beneath me there was nothing but snow and ice. Here lay the Hardanger Plateau, the largest, loneliest, and wildest mountain area in north ern Europe.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad and I had been in the north country recently, retracing a 1915 wilderness journey taken by my grandfather. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navy divers, or "frogmen," used a mini-submarine to place a "pod" on an important Soviet underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan and near the eastern coast of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers the night the lightning hit the royal palm, how the birds circled in confusion before scattering north. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am told the Kingslayer went through him like an axe through ripe cheese. Why should my boys hurry south to die? All those who did go south are running north again." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is to be placed on the desk of Abraham Lincoln the day after Lee has destroyed the Army of the Potomac somewhere north of Washington. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, don’t go north? If we go south, we get deeper and deeper into slave territory. Our only chance for freedom must be in the North!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to point out that the number of wet hours in the north was far less than people realized but she’d already moved on to what a ‘dead fast’ city New York was. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued north, looking to the yellows and the orange of the sandrock cliffs ahead, and to the narrow sandrock canyons that cut deep into the mesa, exposing the springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stared towards the north, her face slack with awe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This is the north cloister,” the porter said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She takes the turn for the highway, and when she merges on, I realize were going north. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Some shook their heads north and south, some shook their heads east and west There were others who, in the middle of our presentations, simply pointed us to the door. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past two days they’d skirted north, hoping to find a safe pass, with no luck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Roger Morris and Gordy Adam, up front, struggled to keep the bow of the boat pointed due north under the relentless push of the quartering waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After creating an effective firebreak in the south, Hildreth took his powder and scooted north to get in front of the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra saw through half-closed eyes, and felt a sleepy thrill of perfect happiness, to be speeding north under the Aurora. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is only September and it is still hot in Paintbrush Falls, even if we are pretty far north, but Killer Man has decided, I guess, that the season dictates gray flannel. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘We have come all the way from the Mines to kill, and avenge our folk. I wish to kill, and then go back north.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were effective in stopping the fire’s spread west, but the wind pushed it north and east relentlessly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the fifth Saturday, however, as the cab started north in York Avenue, Ginnie suddenly spoke up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

For half an hour I hung around on the north end watching little kids kick rocks into the yellow-green water of the Yazoo when their mothers weren’t looking. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the north the view was bounded by the long chalk ridge of the Hog’s Back, from behind whose eastern extremity rose the towers of the seven skyscrapers which constituted Guildford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After crossing the Mississippi, we swung north toward Kentucky, then east. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nicholson got his cigarette lit, with some difficulty, for there was a light breeze blowing from the north. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The family’s badly burned ’78 Camaro was discovered last Saturday on a north Long Island road with the roof ripped off and the front axle broken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We would walk east and then return on the north side of the street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then he hoisted himself up on his game leg and went to the iron stove against the north wall of his office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I walked north on 24th Avenue, turned left at the corner, and walked a mere six blocks, I’d be at Dynamite Bob’s house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The other headed outward, northward and angling toward the sea. she quoted from the next line of Shay’s note, and wondered how far north she was going. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A day later, on Sunday, it was the Under Fifteens’ turn for a big away game, against a Roswell Soccer Club team called the Santos, from an affluent suburb north of Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

His limbs tingled and tickled, reawakening from the five-hour drive to his paternal grandmother’s mobile home on Dine Homelands, forty-five minutes north of Church Rock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Moss always grows on the north side of the tree, so move in the opposite direction of the moss. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The next major sequence occurs mainly in the Ohio Valley, hundreds of miles north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t have any idea where I am—north of Portland, west? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old lady lived two blocks north of Trinity Church, the one with spires that scraped the sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The kingsroad can be perilous this far north," the Lord Commander told him as they drank. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Depending on the wind, a faint echo of massive artillery could be heard occasionally across the mountains near Sarajevo seventy miles to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, the farther north Percy went, the more those memories faded. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was about three miles to the north, down the main road through the canyon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t got long to stay here,” someone crooned beside her in the fields, someone who would be gone by morning on his journey north. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Clouds, which had shadowed the monument, skittered away to the north, and the late-afternoon sun broke through to bathe the reflecting pool and shine on the gaily dressed Easter crowd. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that’s right, north. We seem to be heading in the same direction. Might as well trudge on together then, eh?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Canada was so far up north that the white snow drifted up to the roofs of the houses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Those branches on the northern side are all dead there. No doubt the whole tree’ll be dead before midsummer. It’s always the north side goes first when there ain’t enough sap.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in June the Army of the Potomac, ever slow to move, turns north at last to begin the great pursuit which will end at Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If angels guided her safe through the woods and she made the north edge, she’d have to get past the guards watching over King’s Bridge, where New York Island touched the rest of America. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were trees and fields to the north of the Common and the burying place for Africans. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every restraint in force north of the border, Tijuana offered unlimited indulgence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So close was the ookpick, the white owl of the north, that she could see the clove markings on his wings and the dense white feathers that covered his legs and feet. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red cows on the farther hill ate their way slowly toward the north. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not just Vivaldi who, musically speaking, migrated from the bustling Arcadia of Italy to the spiritual lucidity of the Protestant north. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“No. Great whites swim as far north as the Gulf of Maine,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Following a broken telephone line north, I have come upon some wonderful places,” continued the repairman. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Holmes was driven north on Broad Street to City Hall through air as sticky as taffy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They walked across the dark entrance hall, both hardly feeling the tiles under their feet, and headed for one of the exits on the north side of the building. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“From the south. A small garrison in Moat Cailin can play havoc with any army coming up the causeway, but the ruins are vulnerable from the north and east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Originally I wanted to go around to the south, but north is just as likely to be the best path now that I'm off course. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, when they moved further north, there would be no sun at all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, we’d had to call it off after a mudslide north of the village center. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So he knew the fish had turned east of north. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many travelers heading north, and even fewer who were so well outfitted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Overhead, she could see military planes zooming past, heading north and east. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Two long hours, and that’s just for getting started. ‘So same can the humble thrush well know its north?’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of them up the river, north a little ways, so she followed the sound of the water away from her farm. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At what was supposed to be my father’s last Council meeting before he took his family north, it was decided they’d make one last-ditch effort to talk to the Governors in the capital. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

So, instead of resting, he hurried north toward Makeni, a city many kilometers away, where he thought it might be safe. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the bridge going north over the river. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At this rate, she will never make the north coast by nightfall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As we continue north it becomes increasingly apparent to everyone else what I already know: There’s no escaping the military takeover. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had rubbed it with a magnet and then floated it in a dish of water, let it spin this way and that as it slowly settled with its point toward north. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As we walked north across the multihued stones toward the driftwood seawall, the clouds finally closed ranks across the sky, causing the sea to darken and the temperature to drop. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The north anchor was closest, near enough to walk—and the trip took them across the strip of light called the Avenue, though it wasn’t an avenue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They weren’t standing in a wooded swamp but rather on a cliffside lookout, halfway up the path that wound its way to the top of the ravines north of Zmeyreka. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Due north,” said Ron, checking the compass on the dashboard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The officers at the table talk with indignation about other numbers: the Eighth and Fifth German Armies retreat north through Italy, the Tenth Army might be encircled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Same as a hunter lost in the woods will walk in circles, if he don’t have a star to guide him, or know that moss mostly grows on the north side of trees. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There remained, of course, the ancient tradition concerning the high king at Fornost, or Norbury as they called it, away north of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lancelot rode out from the north exit, marked with the , Bon escutcheon—and immediately everybody in the amphitheatre knew that it was he, although he was disguised. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty or so people had successfully hiked the trail from north to south. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"You must have wondered why I finally came north to Winterfell, after so long." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I fiddled with my radio until I found a report that an early tropical storm was shifting north from Cuba and might hit the keys with hurricane force winds by nightfall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

‘And now for our manger,’ said Beregond, and he led Pippin back to the citadel, and so to a door in the north side of the great tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Last year, I dropped a guy off at the trailhead,” he told us as we tooled north through darkening pine forests towards the rugged hills of north Georgia. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was somewhere in the vague, brown-colored slums to the north and east of what had once been Saint Pancras Station. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Covering five square miles and housing at least fifteen thousand people, Cahokia was the biggest concentration of people north of the Rio Grande until the eighteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They collected firewood from the north side of the slope where it was not so wet, pushing over whole trees and dragging them into camp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Rumor has it that the Resistance fighters have been getting bolder, recruiting not just Scholars, but Mariners, from the free country of Marinn, to the north, and Tribesmen, whose desert-territory is an Empire protectorate. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The one thing that kept her polite and attentive to Mrs. Coulter was that tantalizing hope of going north. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the small north wall gate, Plumpen drew a scarlet cloth from his habit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

By late March and early April, game was growing scarcer as the animals migrated north, fleeing the onset of Antarctic winter. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She is short and speaks in a singsong that reminds me of the villagers in the north. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Clouds hung dark to north and east and south a mile off all about the island. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A north wind had begun to blow by the time the sun went down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Doon knew he was standing beneath the north edge of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, riders were sent out on fast horses, carrying Robb's commands throughout the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And finally, when they turned and headed north, dead into the wind where he could not follow, he felt a sadness at their going, their leaving him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head north, then east along Queen Street, which is another place we never used to go. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still Ged waited, one hand on the yew-wood mast of his boat, staring into the icy drizzle that slowly drove in ragged lines across the sea from the north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing fiercely, bringing the north cold with it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Campion came in, he reported that he had seen three rabbits running away over the down to the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d march north for a time, then east, then north again, skirting the villages, no one talking except in whispers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing off to my left, I spotted a path leading to the north, right where I knew it should be. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s pointing north? Just like a compass?” asked Gregor in astonishment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Winterfell was the heart of the north, White Harbor was its mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All the ferries had been withdrawn to the north bank, and the trading galleys had fled or been seized by the Imp to be made over for battie. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The little foot traffic I had seen was going north, and it looked like the buildings here were mostly warehouses. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On October 28, Washington climbed aboard a coach and headed north, accompanied by Tobias Lear and a valet. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“And what are you doing so far north?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought that was just the name of the town up north.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the girls walk north and didn’t answer. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He drove north for an hour and a half. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Malin Hebrides, northwest seven to severe gale nine, deepening low moving north- east, rain, becoming variable . The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have heard that there are cities in the north.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Away on the north side, I believe. He went to get a drink — of clean water. Most of the other Ents are with him, still busy at their work — over there.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A light wind was blowing straight into the north bank of the copse, where the scrapes had been dug, and Bluebell, when he came up, swore he could smell rabbits on it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned south, then west again, then was forced north for three blocks by loud soldiers spilling out of taverns. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the beam of a car’s headlights as it got into position on the north side of the bridge, the side the runaways had left only moments before. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He started plodding north from tidewater in February, but his enthusiasm fizzled on the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier, still thirty miles from the peak, so he aborted the attempt and retreated to Talkeetna. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s entirely impossible to drive seventy-seven miles per hour on the two-lane state highway that takes us farther north, up toward the Catskills. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

All told, the Greeks knew the Mediterranean Sea from Gibraltar to Syria; they knew that the European continent stretched north into an icy waste, and that Africa stretched south into a trackless, infernal desert. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

One would not specify the position of the moon in terms of miles north and miles west of Piccadilly Circus and feet above sea level. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serafina’s journey to the north was made harder by the confusion in the world around her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had died long ago in Virginia, but his bondage had carried on into his death, so that his spirit was forced to follow the mistress of the manor when she moved north. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘Like the Old Forest away to the north, do you mean?’ asked Merry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Mama! Did you see that lightning storm today? We knew there was trouble when the wind started blowing from the north, so we flew down to some shrubs and waited for the storm to pass.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I jumped on Blackjack, and we flew north toward the sound of explosions. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She’d pictured deserts, donkeys, and carts—not so many busy, cosmopolitan cities, not so many Mercedes and BMW dealerships lining the highway heading north, not so many women in tight clothes and uncovered hair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She said she’d married a bearish man in an amusement park and that he’d planned to escape Cuba, to take a fishing boat north and go ice skating. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drums beat and fifes blew and beneath everything was the steady clockwork blast of the British cannons firing at the troops stationed north of us. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was good wind, fresh enough so he could point the Frog up a bit and run slightly north of east and still hold good speed. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to my memory that at first we’d walked north to get to the picnic site, and then we’d turned west. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Competing with a wailing baby at the back of the room, I tried to evoke that hot summer of 1935, when the cousins came down from the north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I drove north through the little towns and the increasing forest rolling away to the horizon, the season changed quickly and out of all proportion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some initial hesitation, the spoon swung north to south, which meant that I was going to be a boy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The horse never became established farther south than West Africa’s kingdoms north of the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Mark Antony and Cleopatra made their way north from Patras to Actium, they were not worried. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The world of sugar centered on the Muslim Mediterranean, but it also stretched as far as China to the east and even Europe to the north. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Clouds moved from the north, covering the cold sky. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he closed his eyes, he could see the banners in his mind’s eye, snapping bravely in a brisk north wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now I remembered that if I had returned home instead of coming north my father would have given me my grandfather's old-fashioned Hamilton, with its long, burr-headed winding stem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I headed north for three blocks and then I walked for what I figured to be about half a mile, but didn’t li id no Red Apple Diner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya had never taken the trail farther than a few yards off the road, so she hoped it was passable farther north. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A whisper of wind passed by from the north. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a single long piece of heavy rope tied to the beam over the north doorway. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“That must be the north shore of the lake,” Nhamo decided. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a heartening run dead north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

According to her daughter, Ann, shortly before Lydia reached the Rising Sun Tavern, north of Philadelphia, she met a member of the Pennsylvania militia and told him what she had heard the night before. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gymnasium was contiguous to the east wing of the school, and a grassless football field with cracked baked mud harrowed by cleats formed the far boundary of the campus to the north. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we’d spring Minerva and join the main camp, who would already be on the move to another safe haven, a straight shot north from here. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I came to the road and walked north. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Years before, he explained, the country’s best leaders had gone north to fight the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Route 1 was the shorter way, even though it looped up north of the Thruway before entering New Haven. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scholars debate these estimates, but nobody disputes that the Haudenosaunee exemplified the formidable tradition of limited government and personal autonomy shared by many cultures north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon San Francisco was only a glittering crescent behind us, with an occasional flicker of lightning in the north. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Because she thinks I’m trying to get impregnated by every boy north of the equator?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“The Hall of Justice,” Rick said, “is north, on Lombard.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Going north would add a lot of time to my total trip. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully he turns the compass housing until the arrow and north are lined up. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The taxi veered wildly around a corner, then chugged slowly north on the road from Jerusalem to Ramallah. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the reservoir, the enemy vanguard broke through the woods—a warrior in golden armor leading a battalion of Laistrygonian giants with huge bronze axes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The north side of the street had Herbert’s Diamonds, a large jewelry store, and the better theaters. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the New World the ability to write was confined to small elites among some peoples of modern Mexico and neighboring areas far to the north of the Inca Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt shaded his eyes as he looked to the north. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My duties are here in the north. I have no wish to be Robert's Hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Irish American through and through, Day had grown up just north of the Washington campus, in the area where the fraternities were located. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the north, the rain fell cold and hard, and sometimes at night it turned to ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His friends pay for a taxi to the north side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The soldiers bordered the town along the west and the north in two long fire-speckled fences—a lovely sight in the gathering dusk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden fire on the left, a burst in the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's why I'm at the Holy Cross-Roads Inn, a day's walk north of Paris. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“A north wind will stop a run. And Chris says a south wind blows the sap right back up the spiles.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them had joined the Varsity Boat Club and lived in the club’s rented house on Seventeenth Avenue, a block north of the campus, though joe remained in the basement of the YMCA. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The mounted troops entered the oasis from the north; it appeared to be a peaceful expedition, but they all carried arms hid-den in their robes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By running as far north as I could go, to Scotland’s wild northern isles. Had your mother no surname?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the boat to the north, and in no time they were speeding along at fifteen knots, heading for the Golden Gate Bridge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He moves north, trying to evade the tripods. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the north, a saloon keeper took him on. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We have flown north to Albany; I recognize the capitol building from a trip there in elementary school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A hundred thousand people on the road, all going north and east, fleeing winds and water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the north, the trees trailed off the top of the map as if the Wood went on forever. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a stop through Mobile, Alabama, a black man accosted him, crying and begging for a ride up north. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’ll never come back, Lyddie thought sadly as she watched the buggy disappear around the corner, headed for the depot and the train north. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ged turned, irresolute whether to heed this sign or not, and looked to the north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had only hoped to get a glimpse of you before starting my journey north, but I think the sight of me alarmed you. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He and his nephew fought their way back to the St. James Hotel to tell his sister-in-law the sad news, only to learn that she and Wood had been moved north to a safer location. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were being separated from the rest of the outfit, which was supposed to be operating further north above Phuoc Ha. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my blood’s gotten thin, a weakness Father used to accuse us of when we complained of the chill winters in north Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Nemo has planted his flag on the South Pole, but if he doesn’t move the submarine north soon, they will become trapped in ice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

French slaves to the north of us, Spanish slaves to the south of us. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the chamber, a large crystal door was set into the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The 1968 Democratic National Convention turned bloody as police went after Vietnam War protesters with batons and tear gas in Grant Park, about nine miles north of where we lived. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He wore a monocle, which Ophie had only ever seen once before; the ticket clerk in Atlanta had worn one when she and her mama booked passage north. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They did not attack that night but we heard that they had broken through to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Brandfort is about two hundred fifty miles southwest of Johannesburg, just north of Bloemfontein, in the Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since becoming stuck in the ice, the ship had been steadily drifting north with the pack. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

This might be a magic woods, but there was still a north here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But this was because Indians north and south regarded Europeans as human beings exactly like themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As one of her admirers observed, “She has plenty of nerve and is as sharp as a steel trap. She moved her base up north and continued speaking out in cities around the country. “ A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We left the place secretly—it was utterly abandoned—some four or five hundred of us issuing forth in a dismal parade to the north. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It's the most boring county, so no one ever knows where it is. Blackburn's up north, isn't it?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly, barefoot, and with swollen knees, he hobbles north along the rails. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"You are a sour man, Stark. Too long in the north, all the juices have frozen inside you. Well, mine are still running." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They left the alley and headed north along the twisting streets, making a few accidental detours and wrong turns that Lac hoped no one else noticed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One tongue traveled north up Jefferson, while the other headed east toward Lake Michigan. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then came a quiet morning when Mr. Zuckerman opened a door on the north side. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak, bad, dangerous day for the long ride north. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed Sefia and Archer, concealed in the undergrowth, and continued north along the trail, their voices growing fainter and fainter in the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They drove out of the city, heading north. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I spent the mornings at my chores, one eye on the sea, and then, from the top of a drumlin, spent some time looking north, my old spyglass ready. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They rode off along a path that wound away from behind the house, and went slanting up towards the north end of the hill-brow under which it sheltered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He looked up the lake shore, to the north. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. But there’s a lot of daisies in the field north of the eastern road,” Anya said, gesturing in that direction. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Although the portraits here are not taken from life, they hint at how the Inka viewed and remembered their leaders. empire to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I dragged Lady Seymour north, then east, away from the course of the wind, which blew like a bellows and fanned the flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby pulled herself up and into the car and drove north in a daze, not even crying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is north of here, a day’s walk from this camp. Leave tomorrow at first light and walk in that direction. Stay true to the path, and you will find her.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“As well as any raider. Some parts more than others. There’s a lot of north-. Why?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After we finished packing and loading our belongings in our Carcachita, Papa closed the door to the cabin and we headed north. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them I went north,” I gasped as I picked up my skirts and darted around the forge to the south. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out of the south and stayed for two suns, hunting food in the ravines, and then flew off in one great flight toward the north. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreton Bay is bordered on the north by Redcliffe and on the south by Wellington Point, with Wynnum in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The ranch is north. The fire is sweeping up the whole ridge. We’ll be trapped.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After being forced back by the fire earlier, he went north and circled all the way around it until he located his sister-in-law’s house on Des Plaines Street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

That way was north, and he knew that he needed to go northwest for the center of the maze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As they turned north on Chester, Moss pointed across the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ophie had been anxious before, the kind of feeling she sometimes got when Miss Anders—the nice, light-skinned teacher from up north—gave them a timed test. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And because her family frightened and embarrassed him, he took her away to the north, and it was black and lost where he went—somewhere on the borders of Oregon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

North and north and north he looked, to the curtain of light at the end of the world, and then beyond that curtain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Well, at least I knew that Easton was a few miles to the north, and that the road that ran past the Weylin house would take me to it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Wailing Tower only wailed when the wind blew from the north, and that was just the sound the air made blowing through the cracks in the stones where they had fissured from the heat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In truth my escapade on the north face had rattled me, and I didn't Want to go up on the Thumb again at all. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’d have eleven miles of running to the north edge of the island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Multiplying by infinity is like sticking a needle in the south pole; the rubber sheet all flings upward toward the north pole: anything times infinity is infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The car stole off the interstate, and past the cluster of motels to the north of Eagle Point. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We made our way north to 145th, and Daryl stopped at the fish place there to buy a soda and order of fries. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The church had opened anew, this time firmly in the hands of Methodists from north of the Mason–Dixon line, a dangerous combination, my mother said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the final boards were being put into place, Lockton told Madam that he would first head north, then to Dr. van Buskirk’s house in Bergen County. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Charity, a colored preacher that had learned his schooling up north came through and gave her that Bible. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what I’m proposing en’t easy. And I need your agreement I’m proposing that we send a band of fighters up north to rescue them kids and bring ’em back alive. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the north bank of the river the city of Lisbon rose on the hills. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once through the pass, you would travel north to Bologna, and then to Venice. From there, sail the Adriatic to your goal, here: Epirus in Greece.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They thought they knew cold, but the white north had a way of forcing strangers to reevaluate their terms. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“At a village north of here, I’m not sure which, a boy went mad. After robbing the manor house, he killed a priest.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded, unable to thank him or tell him he was her hero or ask which way the road north was. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They agreed Henrietta would stay behind to care for the children and the tobacco until Day made enough for a house of their own in Baltimore, and three tickets north. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There they stayed until spring, when they flew back to their other home, an island hundreds of miles to the north. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

This day was already hot at noon when Crazy Horse walked north through the encampment. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Twenty miles north,” said the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure how far north and south it extends, but it should be right around this area, I think.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Far off to the north, a wolf began to howl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the night of Ulbrickson’s talk, cold north winds blew enormous breakers in off Puget Sound, pushing salt water two blocks inland at Alki Beach and along the waterfront in West Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The old gods of the north might grant them that small boon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The north wall was lower, and on the stone ledge were three metal figures. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The precious firm footing made it the fastest route north, despite the diversion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The next day it was quiet, and the woman carried a bundle of bloody rags away from the bridge, far away north, toward the hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was to the west, north of the Shell River and east of the Medicine Bow Mountains. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

But these are a meaner breed than the ones up north. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Frog glided gently, and slower, as the hills grew higher and blocked more and more of the north wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest and Molly moved into a rented house on Berkeley’s Keith Avenue, in a hilly neighborhood just north of the campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I met Maddy in the north wing, walked her to the car as usual. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Covering the table was a large map of the north, painted on a ragged piece of hide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He changed their course to north by northeast to try and get out of the storm’s path. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the predominant direction of spread was from north to south. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stealing quietly out of the gatehouse study the dormouse headed north, staying well within the deep shadow of the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All along we have been headed roughly north by northwest and figure once we hit land we'll just follow the coast up. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The bus terminal is on the north side of town,” he says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The snowmelt that came down from the mountains of the north had filled its tributaries and now it was at its highest and swiftest. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

We leave the Catskills behind north of the cemetery and enter the Helderbergs. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie and Dylan lead us to a glade north of camp. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hilly chats, throwing things our way like, “Stuart, Skeeter here lives on a plantation just north of town. Didn’t the Senator grow up on a peanut farm?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We had said to ourselves, We won’t be like everyone else, those people who packed up and went north without waiting first for the proper authorization. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There was a postern gate to the north, and Gerren discovered a trap under the straw in the old wooden bam, leading to a narrow, winding tunnel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Tayo told Robert he was going north, up into the mountains to look for the cattle, Robert shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They look like they might be breaching the north battlements, they’ve brought giants of their own!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

To the north, where the pond overflows, the creek continues, disappearing into a forest of eucalyptus. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Every year for the Air and Water Show, we packed a picnic and drove north along Lake Michigan to the fenced-off peninsula where my father’s water filtration plant was located. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

According to one source, he also pivoted north in time to repulse a Seleucid counterattack against Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The lab was located in a secluded community of country mansions an hour or two north of New York City, and not just anyone could gain admission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One was at the north end of the Honeycomb, above the place where the tree roots formed a kind of cloister in the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before him to the north the cliff fell away sharply to the Kum River, a broad stroke of silver ribboning its way through the hills and plains. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had to walk about a hundred yards north to find the place where the trail went down between two big pinon trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are just north of Jacksonville, getting close to Georgia. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Closer you get to the coasts,” Clarence whispered, pointing east, west, and then north, “the more water’s left that can be drunk. The middle grounds?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The young Jesse—seen largely in photos of camping and riding trips up north—looked remarkably like the older one, grave and intent. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not much happening in terms of jobs so I'm heading north tomorrow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village’s single dirt road skirts our yard and runs past us into the village to the south; on the north it disappears into the woods. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the very southern tip of the country they grew oranges and lemons, which were shipped north to the Royal City during harvest season to be made into lemonade and orange punch. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first day of conditioning, we had to go out on a three-mile run to the north shore of the lake and back. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the opposite, northern side of the river are a series of sandstone ridges that reach down from the Guiana Shield in the north, halting close to the water’s edge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If he crept back to Winterfell empty-handed, he might as well dress in motley henceforth and wear a pointed hat; the whole north would know him for a fool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This morning we were walking north up the beach, like every other day, when all of a sudden we came up on a blue beach house that looked exactly like Mong’s. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I remember the way. I go north to go south, east to go west, back to go forward. And to touch the light I have to pass beneath the shadow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“All I ask is that you walk with me four more blocks north — ” “I thought you said Bodega was meeting me,” I protested, preferring to be in Bodega’s company than Nazario’s. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

After giving Javier his number, Moss raised a hand to wave, then turned and walked north into West Oakland. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Reyna recognized this place: the Goldsmith Winery on the north shore of Long Island. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They came out of the woods onto the road north of town. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The first he’d seen in some while, common in the north, leading out of the looted and exhausted cities, hopeless messages to loved ones lost and dead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Embarking on the seventh, we hauled sail and filled away from Krete on a fresh north wind effortlessly, as boats will glide down stream. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orc-trail grew fainter as it bent north towards them, for the ground became harder and the grass shorter. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The patrol had picked up the scent of a fairly large party of rabbits evidently coming toward Efrafa from the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the north, and Nico grinned from ear to ear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Titid has gone to the north, to speak to a farmers’ group. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss grows on the north side of trees. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Frank refused to explain exactly what his “family gift” was, but as they flew north, Frank did tell them about his conversation with Mars the night before. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Munster is almost as far north and west as you can get and still be in Indiana. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She gives her advice on how to save so she can bring her children north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Given the UN encampment was on the road to the airport, I knew I was beginning the journey north of Kinshasa, with half a mile of marsh separating me from the river. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Historically, we’ve seen movement north in the summer and south in the winter. But I think the fact that we are seeing so many lately is largely due to the increasing seal populations.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Jason Grace, the West Wind has been called many things...warm, gentle, life-giving, and devilishly handsome. But I have never been called startling. I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You told Mo that Capricorn was in the north!” she said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"And when night falls, there are said to be ghosts, cold vengeful spirits of the north who hunger for southron blood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Already I had gone as far as the pools and the log bridge on the north. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could perhaps find our way through and come round to Rivendell from the north; but it would take too long, for I do not know the way, and our food would not last. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The thunder trundled away to the north and ceased and there was just the rain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The plan was to hunt boar in the countryside north of San Francisco. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Near the equator. The center of the planet. It’s a circle. Not a real one, but an imaginary divide between north and south. It’s superhot. Closer to the sun than the North and South Poles.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Control room people said most of them have taken up residence north of the river, near the Hancock building,” Amar says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I went north on clear ground under the trees, or through the water when there was no clear ground; the river, a hasty little tributary of the Esagel, was still unfrozen. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The four wild children from file north were standing behind their mother, shy and defiant, and she was folding up a tape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was over, he said, "Choose four men and have them take the body north. Bury her at Winterfell." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the way from Saigon north to the DMZ. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall, charismatic, and quick with a smile, Howard Vaughan worked as an itinerant bellman at luxury hotels, going south to Florida in the winter and north to upstate New York and Vermont in the summer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His own father had been one of Seattle’s most prominent pioneers, establishing a large homestead in the city’s Ravenna Park area, just north of the university. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The orientation is not north/south; rather, Jerusalem, the centre of the known world, is at the top. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whites, ranging from Egyptians and Libyans to Moroccans, occupied Africa’s north coastal zone and the northern Sahara. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, Cain turned a corner, heading north—back toward the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If I stole them and sold them, I would have enough to tide me over in Memphis until I could get a job, work, save, and go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because no coaches were running north of Baltimore, the president and his secretary of state were forced to hire—at their own expense, Jefferson grumped—a carriage to take them to Germantown. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

So later in the spring, when all the birds except the crows left the island and flew off to the north, I had these two for friends. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chance came when Madam received an invitation from a friend who had moved into an abandoned rebel mansion in Greenwich Village, north of the city line. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was on his way to his home in the north. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chimpanzees live north of the river, where there are also gorillas. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A voice cried: “The chase continues north in the city! Police helicopters are converging on Avenue 87 and Elm Grove Park!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interstate 25 cut from south to north across Wyoming. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The whole of San Francisco Bay spread out before us: the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and the green hills and fog beyond that to the north. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Eratosthenes asked himself how, at the same moment, a stick in Syene could cast no shadow and a stick in Alexandria, far to the north, could cast a pronounced shadow. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laid them north to south, from ice to fire, and piled them high with soft cushions and sleeping silks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And just then, a large wind blew in from the north and the flower on the table split from its stem and fell at my feet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legolas stood before the gate and turned his bright eyes away north and east, and his fair face was troubled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The French occupied land in the Mississippi Valley called Louisiana and much of the land north of the Saint Lawrence River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed over the Long Island Expressway to the north side of town, and meandered down side roads until we stopped beside the Quaker meetinghouse. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The stealing of her name, like a wind howling out of the north, whipping the syllables away into nothingness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In spring and summer he had gathered data in Vermont and Maine, and in autumn he moved to a university north of Boston, where we lived, to write a short book about his discoveries. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a key—a shiny silver thing shaped like a flower, something that might be overlooked, mistaken for a child’s plaything—that unlocked the second secret door in the north wall. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“So my head will face north. It has something to do with the magnetic pull of the North Pole bringing you power while you sleep.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The nearest town of any size was Helong, about thirty miles north of where he crossed the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After that, Nurse Evelyn had written, Someday, I hope to take that train north to look for you. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, pottery spread north, reaching the vicinity of modern Tokyo around 9,500 years ago and the northernmost island of Hokkaido by 7,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ten leagues north of Widow’s Watch the seas rose again, slamming the Harvest into one of the galleys towing her and sinking both. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Young Samuel Hamilton came from the north of Ireland and so did his wife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how excited I was making the trip on a second-class train traveling north from Guadalajara to Mexicali. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As he pushes north, the trains keep changing, too. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Helmut waited, car lights on, until I had disappeared down a narrow, twisting path that led into an unpaved street bordering Alexandra to the north. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks, the barges crept farther north up the Angara. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The Night's Watch permitted the forest to come no closer than half a mile of the north face of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seoul is to the east and slightly north of Incheon while Suwon is directly south of Seoul. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And they really deserved a couple of days up north without any worries, because they worked really hard, Dad with all his inventions and Mom teaching math. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Barry took us into the solarium in the north wing of the house for a lesson. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sitting with her back against the tree, she remembered a tale her mother had once told her about a fairy who lived in the mountains north of Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gun flashes were everywhere but the north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They cross the street to where she sits on the sidewalk with her back to a cool north wall. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kristina must get to her soccer practice four miles to the north, and Kelsey to her practice fourteen miles to the south. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The family made it to Tennessee, about two hours north of Atlanta, and was driving through the hills just north of the Georgia and Alabama state lines, and just east of Chattanooga. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Similar finds have been made further north, near Mexico City. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he noticed Bigwig, a little way off, staring fixedly to the north, he at once followed his gaze. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I’ve said, the journey north was usually long and difficult for me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night in February of ’63, as the family sat around the open fire, a wagon clattered down the road from the north and stopped in front of the house. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said she wouldn’t live in her father’s empty house either, in the village of Gul Daman, which sat on a steep hill two kilometers north of Herat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some blocked our path to the bridge on the north side of the clearing, right where Gum Baby and I stood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

By the time all color had ebbed from the sky, the crowd had swelled to include 3,000 protesters, and they started their slow, determined march north up Fayetteville Street. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Armory, the Gasworks, ‘Conley’s Patch,’ and Wells Street as far north as Monroe were all on fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to the hollow tree and got my gun, then doubled back along my own trail and moved north, crawling through thick brush and saplings. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

By coincidence or out of some malignant expression of humor, the house was located right behind the city morgue, a few blocks north of City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The more north we got, the more life was left in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She could easily have welcomed Leon with another of her stories, but it was the news that her cousins from the north were coming to stay that had prompted this leap into a new form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A few. I met a few when I went up north last year. Aren’t they women who never passed the tests required to become sages?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not long ago archaeologists with new techniques unraveled the tragedy of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, which was once the greatest population center north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun told her which way was north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re making something a little stronger than tea today, though. Out in the garden, there’s some roseroot in the north corner. I need...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“A lot of things, but mostly lack of food in the cold north. They follow the food supply.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Now he comes north humbled, with his tail between his legs. Why should I give him any aid? Answer me that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The rain came when they were sixteen miles north of an Iowa settlement called Tenville Junction. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel had shown the other scholars the severed head of a man called Stanislaus Grumman, and that kinda persuaded them to give him some money to come north and find out what had happened. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the tales they had heard of the Red Wedding were even half-true, they were not like to ride north again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the north deep waves rolled down upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led us out of the Quonset hut toward the weather-beaten trees on a hill north of the house. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the small path to the north, that leads past the fish camp,” said Grandma, gesturing slowly. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

All the time they were steaming north, and it grew colder daily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The tailwind had stiffened further, slicing up the length of the lake now, piling more rough water into heaps of whitecaps at the north end. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There it led to the Bozeman Trail, used by white gold seekers heading farther north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

That other Dearly Beloved who resides in north Georgia does not seem to be paying much attention to the babies here in Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an anomaly: the greatest city north of the Rio Grande, it was also the only city north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To the north the fog banks still hung like a mountain range over the sea, but the breeze was pushing them back and back, and Lee was impatient for the air again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one on the north bank was built against the bluff with the Red Keep frowning above,- its counterpart on the south shore had its footing in the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the lake, the coxswain called out, “Way... ’ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a light blue warehouse three down from you. It has a bunker in the far north corner. Can you get there?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One chose getting a Christmas tree with his dad; another had decided on baking holiday treats with her mom; several were going to focus on vacations with relatives who lived up north. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The abundance of the big deer of the north did Miyax no good, for she had not brought a gun on her trip. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could get to the north faster alone,” he figures, “but I might not make it.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

All that lies north of Rohan is now to us so far away that fancy can wander freely there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It wheeled and went north, flying at a speed greater than any wind of Middle-earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He selected the upstream, or north, side, a poor choice because the morning sun and its reflection off the river would be in his face. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In this contraption she wheeled around the room, from bedside to dresser to the balcony that opened out the north side of her room or to die window that looked out on die back yard. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re headed north, in fact, but we were curious to see who was in the neighborhood. We haven’t run into any company in a long time.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure that’s the door you want. Every network news camera is aimed at the north side of the White House right now.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Those cafes up north would serve a colored man but not one who couldn’t read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun shone at right-angles to the north wind, leaving the east side of the furrows white with frost. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She met no one in the north field. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn would raise the north when the word reached her, and the lords of river and mountain and Vale would join her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From Syracuse they went north again, into a colder, snowier city—Rochester. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few other minor crops made the trip later, including tobacco, domesticated in Amazonia, then exported north to become the favorite vice of Indians from Mesoamerica to Maine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Misha followed the river’s curve north and zigzagged back and forth between tall buildings. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“She’s nearly sixteen now, like the Polish girl. My father sent her up north near the Danish border for safety. I haven’t heard from her in over three years. I’m going to find her.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

From there, he could watch for trains leaving for the north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the house, beyond the hearth and facing north towards the doors, was a dais with three steps; and in the middle of the dais was a great gilded chair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A north Wind swirled through the trees below, sending thin white plumes of snow crystals flying from the highest branches, like icy banners. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At Castroville, the first station north, he got off and waited four hours for the Del Monte express from San Francisco to Monterey, which is at the end of a spur line. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible that the vessel may be lying by, at times, for fog; some of the steamers which came in last evening reported patches of fog both to north and south of the port. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We crossed the frozen Ey a mile or so north of town. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The following day the travelers came down from the hills to find themselves on the banks of a river running north and south. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that he pulled himself together, and when the chance came along to lease and sharecrop a hundred acres from a big strawberry grower up north in Santa Clara Valley he took it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later me and Missy loaded up with them on the wagon heading north.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One could walk through China, from Manchuria in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south, while remaining entirely within land occupied by native speakers of Mandarin and its relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I almost correct Sam, that Vikings were from farther north. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The body was transferred from the wagon to a rowboat, then to a steamboat, which would then take them north to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so they left her direwolf and his bodyguard behind them, while they ranged east along the north bank of the Trident with no company save Lion's Tooth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But to the north, two miles up—he stood to see it—there was a break in the surf line almost half a mile long. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She planned to transfer, probably to the Downstate Correctional Facility, about forty-five minutes north, as soon as a good post opened up for her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the snow had melted and the hills in the north were already dotted with patches of green grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The air was warm and heavy with the scent of flowers, and the woods here had a gentle beauty that Sansa had never seen in the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They migrated down from the north in huge flocks, confusing the skies and crowding the clouds before landing on the blue willows in our valley. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Ruth and I found ourselves in a tide of people moving north. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I can see nothing away north or west but grass dwindling into mist,’ said Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I know. Imagine if I'd gone west instead of north when I left my uncle. I’d have never found you. I mean, any of you guys.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I looked west, toward the river, then north, then west again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struck the middle of the north wall He took a piece of flint and he struck the middle of the north wall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Streams fill and merge to join the Nile River system that drains into the Mediterranean Sea more than 4,000 miles to the north. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express moved steadily north and the scenery outside the window became wilder and darker while the clouds overhead thickened. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

About 100,000 years ago, some Sapiens groups migrated north to the Levant, which was Neanderthal territory, but failed to secure a firm footing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind blew steadily from the north, driving snow against the courthouse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A large portion of the building’s north end collapsed, which in turn caused the failure of an elevated gallery designed to ring the interior of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were massive cracks and bulges on the north side of the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the English, French, and Dutch who took over the hemisphere north of Florida were just as fascinated by native cultures as the Spaniards and Portuguese who emerged victorious to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Haroooooooooooooooooooooooo, it cried, its voice as long and low and chilling as a cold wind from the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Men went blind this far north; they lost lips, ears, noses, hands, and feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the unseasonably warm day, about six hundred persons went to the Valley View Cemetery on the north edge of this city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she had a nanny who lived in the north guesthouse, sometimes not. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

When they reached the river, they shifted a few meters to the north and began wading back up the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are in the north wing of the palace. The Belle apartments face the morning star, the eye of the Goddess of Beauty," Ivy says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On August 10 we reached the sea at the north end of the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we came to this footpath near the beach we started heading north, who even knows why. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kabuo, his radio on, checked his barometer; it still held steady despite talk of rough weather, cold squalls of sleet reported to the north, out of the Strait of Georgia. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kathy had taken the kids north a handful of times when storms had gotten close. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Custer had to turn and go that way”—Grandpa Nyles pointed up a slope going north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Old Rit and Ben were now living forty miles to the north of Bucktown, in another county, but on a farm that belonged to Dr. Thompson. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old gods of the north must have been guiding her steps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All of them were looking up toward the north where the transport plane would come; the plane bearing the father who had flown off an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean for a year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is said that there are still havens of the High Elves, but they are far north and west, beyond the land of the Halflings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Painted Rock Cave was occupied at roughly the same time that the Clovis culture was thriving to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Barn number three on the Tanner north sixty, sir.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The next day they jumped a train, climbed onto the roof, and rode north. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most people hike from south to north with spring, ideally keeping one step ahead of the worst of the hot weather and the more irksome and infectious of insects. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But in early May, we hoped, the approach of the monsoon from the Bay of Bengal would force the jet stream north into Tibet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bald man, who had been charting our progress from the city markers called from the window slot, guessed we were somewhere in the Altai region, just north of China. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the north side of the river, tidy neighborhoods of small frame houses now perched on neat squares of lawn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He used the gesture universal in the north to signify friendship, and laid his rifle down at his feet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ewell’s fight in the north was stiffer, but down here the sound was softened; the wind was in the south, blowing toward the battle, blowing up between the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cars are all away. There are six up north at Caporetto. You know Caporetto?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I worked a day in Tappan with Officer St. George, who was waiting to be transferred up north. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed his finger as he pointed to the north and west. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nana said, “Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some developments spread from south to north in China, especially iron smelting and rice cultivation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the arm of a weather vane, pointing north! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If you go north, you’ll both die. I can foresee that clearly.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were now on a ridge that led to Last Stand Hill, which was about a mile to the north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I want to get to my family. I am alone in my country. I have to go north.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He needed no less than a rebel version of the Underground Railroad that transported runaway slaves north to freedom. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked from the office and pulled the brake on the north side, then the brake on the south side. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left the storm behind and sailed north into the Indian Ocean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fate drives me south and south again, Catelyn thought as she sipped the astringent tea, when it is north I should be going, north to home. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This is puzzling, because I’ve seen French people, there are lots of them up north, so he couldn’t have conquered all of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Be it an animal or something else, you always shoot from the north to the south. Because, you know, north represents death. You could wear it, but whatever. Stay in here and mope.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were men with shotguns behind logs along the beach just north and south of town. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The Belle apartments are in the north wing," Du Barry informs us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Find the river and follow it north. You will have to stay hidden during the day and travel only at night. Can you do that?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things were quiet, and Brown, a new officer from up north, offered to show me around the inmate-programs area in the basement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family will pray for her during her journey north, she tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The spot corresponding to the famous crossroads lies just a few yards north of the mosque. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Haas was standing midway up a sixty-foot hummock in a valley along the central coast of Peru, about 130 miles north of Lima. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I listened to it over and over while staring out at the north cloister. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To the north across the charred landscape, twenty-five miles away, he could see Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only far to the north small white peaks stood sharp against the blue, and southward one could guess the shining of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They took us to Camp Elliott, a little north of San Diego. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the north end, the beech roots formed a kind of irregular colonnade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I knew nothing about Chicago except that’s where people headed when they went north. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe still traveled north to those auctions, and he usually drove back with his pickup full of junk. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The observatory was some distance to the north, and Lee Scoresby hired a dog sledge and driver. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She belonged to an old Khazar family. They escaped the old tsar’s slaughter. Fled north, like yer babushka. They had neighbors who...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Off to the north the skies were clear, but in the east from whence storms sometimes came at this season, stood banks of gray clouds, one on top of the other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conwy and his charges had brought the news north with them,, and the talk in the common room had been of little else. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He recalled Bilbo’s account of his journey and the threatening towers on the hills north of the Road, in the country near the Troll’s wood where his first serious adventure had happened. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each year, thousands of children cling to the tops and sides of trains as they journey north in search of their parents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Many Tang people had just got disgusted and left for points east, south, and north, where you weren’t herded around like a flock of sheep by a shepherd who could not make up his mind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had found the stag about an hour’s walk north of where they were camped, and he had marked the path to show them the way back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Newtons’ Olympic Outfitters store was just north of town. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a changeover at some point—Ellen and Leo escorted to the north entrance and Alex and June shuffled off in another direction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This time they flew the plane north and turned in over Italy far behind the enemy lines. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She had come to this island in the far north with the goal of murder, and she had done her job, but now she only felt like a killer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Hmm, ah yes, here it is. ‘Late in November, Year of the Small Sweet Chestnut, from a frozen sparrowhawk come down from the far north...’—peculiar chap, spoke with a strange accent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Several stone bridges crossed the river as it wound through the valley, and in the north, a long line of brickwork arches stretched from the hills into the town. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Always go down, and keep traveling north. You will reach Hel’s gate.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We were camped at an old landing strip just north of Tam Ky and less than a thousand meters from Highway 1. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their ancient ancestors had found the Galapagos Islands so pleasant that they had not returned north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Ursa Major is in the north,” she said, “which means that must be west.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

To the north, along the main route of the river, the ground was riddled with cave entrances. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I speeded up, crossed the bridge, and headed north to Santa Clara. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The stories from up north painted a much rosier picture of education in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From far away on the north side where the Italians lived and kept chickens in their yards, came the crowing of a rooster. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I certainly hope it isn’t snowing up north. My system simply will not function under those conditions. And please watch out for Greyhound Scenicruisers along the way. They’ll demolish a toy like this.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cimmerians lived there, but whether east, west, north or south, no one knew. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was near dark when they reached it, at the cross-roads north of the great confluence of the Trident. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“When the wind starts blowing from the north, you must immediately get Brightbill to safety. North winds always bring bad weather.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A wire fence had been erected along the north side of the building; on it a sign warned: NO TRESPASSING—Property of the Westing estate. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he would get mad at me if I said, “Going north, anywheres out of Texas do just fine.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woundwort waited only for Groundsel to bring back the two rabbits who had been sent to search among the tree roots at the north end of the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 8:32 A.M. on a Sunday morning, May 18, the north side of the volcano collapsed, sending an enormous avalanche of dirt and rock rushing down the mountain slope at 150 miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Running through the woods north of her house, it amazed me how green things grew on top of green things that were still green and growing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The king sent him into hiding in a village north of here,” Yanna said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The result is that from a widespread territory to the north birds pass through this traffic bottleneck. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thought about the black folks his train carried up north, leaving everything they knew for an uncertain future. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘But he shall not turn us back! Halt we must once more; for, see! even the Moon is falling into gathering cloud. But north lies our road between down and fen when day returns.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I moved to the other side of the stone and looked out to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the car heading north, Rafik said, “Tell me every one of Poppy’s words. Did he look scared? Did they have chains in there?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I looked out of the dormitory window I could see the Channel itself, and the big city of Cardiff with Llandaff alongside it lay almost directly across the water but slightly to the north. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Route 1 looped north, they crossed under the Thruway and spent a miserable night huddled at the back of a shopping center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He acknowledged them with a nod and pressed farther north. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Battles and skirmishes were fought on the north part of New York Island, though the city was safe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit expertly steered the boat to the north side of the bridge, trimming the motor to match the speed of the current. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“There was a ship, another one, or a different name at least, that chased Lucky Girl into the storm. It was a big ship. Built for the north... North Run, maybe?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We are about a hundred miles north of the city, which is considerably farther in kilometers, but still we get the tourist trade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they packed everything they owned in the Blue Bird Inn and headed to a small Florida town called Brooksville, north of Tampa, on the Gulf Coast. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Hermit was looking out of the only window, which faced north. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later he was heading east, and I made my way north over the green hills into Trebon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Olmec,” though, is a word in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as I lift my eyes to scan the buildings, I know where we’re going: the empty Hancock building, a black pillar with crisscrossed girders, the tallest building north of the bridge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors were on horses and riding north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They made regular checks on the train as they flew farther and farther north, each dip beneath the clouds showing them a different view. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For the rest of her life she imagined her cousins worked for kind and generous masters up north, engaged in more forgiving trades than her own, weaving or spinning, nothing in the fields. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But, curiously, though we had come a couple of hundred miles north, spring seemed further advanced here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the north side of town anyway, Little Africa, where blacks, Mexicans, and Indians lived; and the only white people over there were Slav storekeepers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not quite Gstaad or Aspen, but the weather is cold enough to ski on the snow-covered mountains looming to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the north comer there was a tavern, deserted, the door open into a black interior. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the day they’d been told they were free, and their bold decision to move north, away from the memories of the fields and the overseer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He fell silent, gazing north and west into the gathering night for a long while. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were gone, I jogged to the north edge of the dam and looked over. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The pyramid and the rest of the city are oriented on a rectilinear grid 15° 25” from true north, a direction that may have aligned with the cave mouth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The border lay a few hundred miles north, an eight-hour drive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the north side, it was different There were submerged coral reefs and great shelves. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He went north of us, and he should be back soon.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain continued to hammer down, pounding on the long line of kids trudging north, around the football stadium, toward the high school gymnasium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like eggshells it crushed the buildings of the North End yard of the city’s paving division....To the north it swirled and wiped out practically all of Boston’s only electric freight terminal. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Dad had said we should head north to the old lands. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If I’m north, I shudder to think where in God’s name we’re going. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Capricorn is in the north,” he answered at last. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We caught a local bus going north and only got off ’cause the driver called last stop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could not have controlled my relations with the whites if I had remained after having told them that I wanted to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing about a hundred yards north, Snuffy discovered the trail into the gorge he had known would be there, a narrow descent to the river bank where two small hot springs were located. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment they had lifted into the sky and turning north, headed back in the direction of the War Memorial Opera House. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd that had spilled out onto Broadway surged to the north at first. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He could keep walking north, and wind up in Alaska, or head south, to Mexico and beyond. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Still following other men, Shin climbed into a boxcar bound for Chongjin, the largest city in the far north of the country and a gateway to rail lines leading to the Chinese border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A small bright light had arisen in the sky to the north and appeared to be drifting along the lakeshore toward the wharf. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A living legend everywhere, not just in the north. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The other road led north into the city, a miniature version of Ancient Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Further north, expanding their empire in a hot-brained hurry, are the Toltec, sweeping in every direction from the mile-high basin that today houses Mexico City. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t as tall as Mount Rainier, which loomed over Seattle, about two hundred miles to the north of Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now her trip north would be delayed, and she'd spent too much of her money, and on top of all that, she’d left her passport at the border. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Stannis had come north with no more than fifteen hundred men ... but if he told them that, his mission here was doomed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"He crept down the kingsroad in the night, and now his host is less than a mile north of here, forming up in battle array." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some had long beards, some had scars, some had both; all worshiped the old gods of the north, those same gods worshiped by the free folk beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If the pack carried them north fast enough, they could reach the edge of the ice and be able to launch the boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She told him, harshly, not to come north, but he disobeyed her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Buses took off from the Central Depot, going to all points of the city, going farther to Mozambique and Kenya and even Gondwanna, in the north. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first story told of the departure of an expedition to the north of Alaska. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They goosed the throttle, and the boat swung out into the river, heading north past the Navy and Columbia shell houses. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But she liked the design, after all, and they arranged to have it silk screened on five hundred red T-shirts, which they shipped north. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked north, but he could see nothing beyond the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north, the wind had destroyed all vegetation, and she could see the immense plains of dunes and distant hills quivering in the sweltering light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word that clings to every hiker’s thoughts in north Georgia is Deliverance, the 1970 novel by James Dickey that was made into a Hollywood movie. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On their way north, they stop to pick the cars back up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We turn onto the freeway, head north, flowing with not much traffic. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thus was he drawn north, to Alaska. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice had never before been seen so far north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Then he’s to pull it o’er to barn number three on the Tanner north sixty. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"But I wish we were safely through it and out at the other side. Narnia and the north!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It is like stretching the rubber cover away from the north pole and toward the south pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

From it the orc-trail ran out again, turning north along the dry skirts of the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His north sea eyes were colder than she’d ever seen them, empty of feeling, stripped of anything human at all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She is racing south to Yunkai, to put the city to the torch and its people to the sword, and we are going north to meet her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the porch of the house at the trading station of Vanovara at breakfast time and looking towards the north. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug my heels into Jingle Boy again and headed him hard north, back toward the little logging village, back to the stable. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He saw away over the ice to the north a white tower like the tower of a Domain, and from this place far away one came walking towards him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that they were back on Interstate 25, going north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She took me to a small building north of campus, which she called a “clinic.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jolly Jack, he was called before Redbeard came down upon the north; Sleepy Jack, forever after. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hull rattled as the Pax plowed its way north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

So tacking now north now south they worked eastward. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

One road seemed to go off toward the west, the other road continued north. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry read it aloud: Harry — I’m flying north immediately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She lived far away in the north, not at the zoo and not in Pondicherry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond this point, he explained, there would be not enough depth below the keel, even with the massive flood from the north. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the train north to the Catskills I unwrapped my flint and steel and practiced hitting them together to make sparks. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered thickest at the north end of the street, around their god. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I trudged back to the minivan and headed for a place called Logan Pines farther to the north. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

To the north are renters who I have only seen once 7 months and four days ago, which was on the day that they arrived. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sigurd’s mount had left deep hoof prints in the dirt of the road, heading north. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even with Lord Marshall’s bone-shrunk mug on the obituary pages at last, my cousin from the north would not tolerate an accusation of criminal conspiracy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I head north on University Avenue, past the sterility of hospitals, along the old route of the Santa Claus Parade. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of VC were killed north of Saigon, and President Johnson was saying that the United States was ready to come to the peace table if the Communists were. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evangelists from all the surrounding counties, from as far south as Florida and as far north as Chicago, came together in one place to break the bread of life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Tam Lin says you’re to stay put for now. He’s going to spread a rumor that you’ve taken a Safe Horse north to the United States. He says that should keep the Farm Patrol busy.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means the righteous, Christian thing about going north with Cap’n Buck is that by bringing thieves back to pay for their sins, we’s helping to right a great wrong. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A storm was moving in from the north, building over the sea and rolling inexorably toward shore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If the north had eliminated slavery, one day the abominable institution would fall everywhere. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Cahokia represented the first time Indians north of the Rio Grande had tried to feed and shelter fifteen thousand people in one place, and they made beginner’s mistakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Peninsula Luggage was a sales and repair shop in San Mateo, a town about thirty miles north of where we lived. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Up north, the gargantuan metropolis, the liberty movement, and the ingenuity of the colored community all converged to portray the true scale of the hunt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The room was on the north side of the inn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“My parents. They were killed trying to escape a plantation. After they’d left me with someone to smuggle me up north.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe she would try to think a long way ahead to the time she would go north and see snow, or even travel somewhere in a foreign land. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d told him that there was a drought in the north and my family had lost a lot of cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Cambodians are trekking on foot to the north, crossing dangerous mined fields and Khmer Rouge control zones, with little food and water, to go to Thailand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was getting low by the time he reached the ruins of what had been the county’s first schoolhouse, a landmark known as the eight-mile point north of Newton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dark when Harrison left Jackson Park and drove north through the cold smoky evening toward his mansion on Ashland Avenue. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And there it is: a spur in the channel heading off to the right, due north. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wildlings did not mine or smelt, and there were few smiths and fewer forges north of the Wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When she was sixteen, she moved in with a boyfriend who had a house near the village of Holkham in north Norfolk. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little north of the rock fight, John and the Williams boys, oblivious of the fray, continued their game of diving and floating. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We laughed and said, ‘No bother, we are heading north.’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time it reached Graceland Cemetery, north of the city, darkness had fallen and a soft mist hugged the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

About a mile to the north, the small beige dot circled a hill and stopped at the summit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When they arrived in the city’s palatial old Lehrter Station, just north of the Tiergarten, that afternoon, they were stunned by the reception that greeted them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Another day, I saw her infuriate some inmates on R-gallery north, just above her office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the dome of heat extended from coast to coast and far north into Canada. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If there were a tiny light at the north pole of the ball, any figures that are marked on the ball would cast shadows on the plane below. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of America’s youngest but strongest stars had ventured north of the border to play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We traveled four hours north to the Wimbe trading center, where my relatives were waiting to greet us. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ancient Taiwanese were great seafarers whose descendants spread out far to the south, east, and west; some of them may also have spread north, to Kyushu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the popping of rifle fire to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In elementary school, we used those same chamber of commerce maps to learn about north, south, east, and west. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Still, it let me know Trebon was somewhere between fifty and eighty miles to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Manderlys had brought the Faith north with them when they were driven from the Reach. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To understand why, we must travel north to Scotland and begin with a brilliant and genial man, of whom few have ever heard, who had just invented a new science called geology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At this time of year, it should have been full of fishing vessels and ships carrying goods from the north—woolens, lumber, stone from mountain quarries. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t as if they had a sunset or the North Star or moss growing on the north side of trees to guide them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later they were making a long traverse across a deeper slope that edged further to the north and delivered them at last to another valley, another little stream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, by referring to the almanacs and making some calculations, he can determine how far north or south he is: that is his latitude. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was said that the Tartars had invaded Muscovy, and were surging north to St. Petersburg, from where they would be able to dominate the Baltic Sea and eventually overcome the entire west erf Europe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Luma called again, raising her arm in the air and pointing in the direction of the apartment complexes north of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

While American blacks of African descent originated mainly from Africa’s west coastal zone, similar peoples traditionally occupied East Africa as well, north to the Sudan and south to the southeast coast of South Africa itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No binding spell would catch all three, because two came from north and one from south. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their camp was well sited atop a low stony ridge that ran from north to south. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I went to the beautiful Mitumba Valley in the north of the park, where all those years ago I first watched chimps in the big Msalula tree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique allows himself to doze only on trains farther north, where the gangsters no longer control the tops of the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The Slammer. It’s our jail on the north side of the Homestead.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Detrital Wash extends for some fifty miles from Lake Mead into the mountains north of Kingman; it drains a big chunk of country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finished bathing and attempted to catch another ride north, however, he discovered that his luck had changed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And our mistress still sleeps. Alcyoneus was forced to bide his time in the north, waiting, planning. Only now does Gaea begin to stir. Oh, but she remembers you, and so does her son!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Please leave that decaying city and come north. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They keep us on the north side of the railroad tracks, next to the river and their dump. Where none of them want to live.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, latest of all, those returned who had passed into Mordor and destroyed the fortresses in the north of the land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sojourner rover brought out, placed 1 meter due north of lander. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun still sets quite late in the north of England in August, and Maddie on fabric wings flew low over the long sands of Holy Island and saw seals gathered there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My brother obtained a job and we began to save toward the trip north, plotting our time, setting tentative dates for departure. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked out of Bukchang that day, wearing his newly stolen coat and carrying a small cache of cookies, Shin joined a small group of traders that by chance was going north. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sam’s mountain was their last rendezvous on their trip north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After that, the men had continued marching north, and Sefia and the boy followed them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The cluster of cities and hamlets around the harbor of Hampton Roads—Newport News and Hampton to the north, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach to the south—boiled over with in-migrants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And the road in the north is open; they can come in there and they’ll be behind us, on our flank. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane dipped and began to head north. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Felicia said his body turned to gray ash, and then the wind blew him north, just as he’d wished. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have him in a cage for all the north to see, proof of your lies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘They can go twenty miles north to Brandywine Bridge — or they might swim,’ answered Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I lived in north London, in Finsbury Park, in a house occupied entirely by penniless Bengali bachelors like myself, at least a dozen and sometimes more, all struggling to educate and establish ourselves abroad. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Linguistic evidence, first weighed by anthropologists in the 1970s, suggests that they arrived from the north as late as the seventeenth century, about the time of the first Spanish settlers and missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then two weeks later the porter and conductor of the north bound local had helped her off the train at Maitland. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

His son has never told him the truth about his life up north. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Last night on the retreat we had heard that there had been many Germans in Italian uniforms mixing with the retreat in the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They stopped for a bite to eat and to put gas in the truck, and then they went north on Interstate 25. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A gale set in on the fifteenth, and winds of more than seventy miles per hour drove them north for six days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The storm blew out of the north, sending big waves against the island and winds so strong that I was unable to stay on the rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her about the reports his father had received about creatures, possibly fay, entering the Kingdom in the north. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Serves him right for staying away for so long. I’ll tell him they took off heading north.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bought wool from die north and linen from the south and lace from Lys, stared it, moved it, dyed it, sold it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Message from Ewell: his troops were on the move, would be coming down into Gettysburg from the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it might still work, it might still point north, she might still be able to use it to get there and even back again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing from south to north. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterward the rabbits set out across the park to the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the waste they saw riders picking their way; they were coming from the north side, and already they were drawing near to Orthanc. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Japanese forest composition varies with latitude and altitude: evergreen leafy forest in the south at low altitude, deciduous leafy forest in central Japan, and coniferous forest in the north and at high altitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Randalls bought out the Spencer spread to the north, once that family decided to try their luck out west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When I was traveling north to Bolvangar with the gyptians, the child Lyra told me about something that happened in the college she used to live in, back in Oxford. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet now for the first time she saw something of Eddard Stark in his face, something as stem and hard as the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the Jews on the north side of the bridge shifted silently, like buoys in a bay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing was missing except the knife, and I knew he’d taken it to north beach with him. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice pack continued its slow, enormous revolution north through the Weddell Sea. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The fortress stood on a high bluff on a sharp curve of the river about 50 miles north of New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the summer they move out of the Loyer house, and soon after that, Anna finds a teaching job and moves thirty miles north of London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place of healing,” Royal told Cora on the train north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The girls got ready in their locker room, located on the north end. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It’s harder to move around, and we live in a smaller area in the north. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road ahead lay to the north and slightly to the west. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As they went farther and farther north, it grew colder; she was aware of the wind on the Jersey ferry and aware of the cold damp in New York. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salvador pointed north and asked, “Are there any charros over there, señor?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Due west seven, middle west seven. Leaves plots north and south. I told him better the northwest seven. If I was going to sell. It’s hilly anyway.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We took it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would be the place chosen for the crossing the country between the river and the Carpathians. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We were better equipped than many founders of dynasties had been when they walked north to dethrone an emperor; they had been peasants like us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came in wagons from way up in Georgia and they came in truck loads from east, west, north and south. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was no way of knowing if the distribution had begun three blocks north of them, and no one was willing to leave in order to scout ahead and report on what was happening. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the other subdivisions from the brochures turned out to exist— most of them on the north side of town, which had been totally developed a long time ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But there was no more north in my heart. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, only about one-third of its area falls within the sub-Saharan zone north of the equator that was occupied by farmers and herders before 1000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They survive only because someone in the family has gone north and sends back money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s a publicar in a shed at the bottom of the hill. Take it, and head north,” Scythe Curie said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The north wall had vaulted windows with French doors that opened onto a roof terrace. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Without the cruise ship blocking their view, she saw a mountain jutting from the sea less than half a mile to the north. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was warm this morning even as we edged further north and further into the season. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, she flew north and farther north, into the fogs and gales around Svalbard, the kingdom of Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You said there weren’t houses north of the river.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I pulled the blanket to my chin and watched the snowcapped hills in the north through the window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then each pack counted off and when the totals were in, Miyax’s wolves yipped among themselves as if discussing the tundra news—a pack of twelve wolves to the north. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Crown ceded to the United States territory from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Great Lakes and north of Spanish-occupied Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He never said nothing to me ’bout going north, sir. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Fred tuned her out and enjoyed the ride north to Connecticut. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Just north of us was the bone-dry Kabul River. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He meant to carry her to Winterfell, to display her there in chains for the lords of the north to see, the kraken’s daughter bound and broken, proof of his power. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Yet she knew that beyond them was open country, farms and fields and forests, and beyond that, north and north and north again, stood Winterfell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He envisioned an alliance of all the peoples west to the Mississippi, north into the Great Lakes region, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo di Bologna was pushing his way through the crowd on the north side of the bridge, past the nobles and then past the guards. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The north wall of the Library was made entirely of glass, with doors leading to a terraced greenhouse that refracted light like a prism. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hence historians often assume that knowledge of metallurgy reached sub-Saharan Africa from the north. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Repton was up in the Midlands, near Derby, and some 140 miles away to the north. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have tended to believe that paleo-Indians would have needed millennia to walk from the north end of the Americas to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one even seemed to know that His Grace had come north to help defend the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It made eye contact with her—she swore it looked right at her—and then flew north. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the north the nights are cold and the leaves are beginning to turn, but the city is still hot, still damp. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, several more squadrons dropped in from orbit to the north and west. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In Under- standing Our Universe, I read that a magnet’s north pole attracts another magnet’s south pole, but it repels another magnet’s north pole. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm said, “Why are you here, so far out of the north?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But in school he learned Arabic, the official language of the Sudanese government far away to the north. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this year for the Fourth of July, my parents are taking me to the Tulalip reservation, about twenty miles north of the city. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the high meadows north of Lord Yronwood’s estates, the air was always crisp and cool after dark, no matter how hot the day had been. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"My father has donned the ancient crown of salt and rock, and declared himself King of the Iron Islands. He claims the north as well, by right of conquest. You are all his subjects." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A thin coat of ice crusted the puddles in the streets, and it was said on the day after Christmas that only ten miles to the north there was a light fall of snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He has gone further north to ask about this among some witches he knows and will contact you as soon as he returns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie gave him money for the fare to the north shore. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Stubborn breaks when it don’t bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. She’s in a hospital up north in Goshen. I visit her once a month. Twice if I can manage it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“The north. The Starks were done and doomed the night that you took Winterfell.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But nobody stepped off a curb, everybody kept moving north, an ugly, snarling black-and-white escort for the kid in the middle. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, over the mountains to the north, the pale arcs and loops of the Northern Lights began to glow and tremble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sun could play tricks on your senses this far north and they had no compass with which to navigate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their destined home was on the west coast, somewhat to the north, but they must by no means take the shortest way and go up between Sicily and Italy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was situated in an area nicknamed Westcliff by its residents after the fancy white suburb to the north. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bordered to the north by Lithuania and to the south by Poland, it was a land of deep lakes and dark forests. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Crepuscule quickly outpaced the guns of impotent rage and continued reaching north. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My route went north in Vermont and then east in New Hampshire in the White Mountains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was positive that Timothy was back on north beach cutting on that piece of wood but something told me not to go down there. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warm as it was onshore, a moderately stiff north breeze had sprung up out in midlake, and they would be rowing directly into it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She is heading north to find work in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The train headed north and it wasn’t long before we left the pine forests. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the train rolled north, the migrants drank their water bottles dry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

To the north, a huge mass of rock rose out of the sea—an island with cliffs at least a hundred feet tall. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Leopard Head was a cook for the demons on some ranch up to the north. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick, dark green forest of oak and pine crowned pink-orange sand-rock plateaus that extended north and south beyond Nathan’s vision. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Maggot got down and took a good look either way, north and south, but nothing could be seen in the darkness, and there was not a sound in the still air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the north edge of town, just below the rich Chapultepec hills district, Lupita ran up to her brother with a tortilla and an egg taken from her sack. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The sound of another chopper rises in the north. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like how compass needles always point north, no matter which way you’re facing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The armies move north through the heat and the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen was sent to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, and Infantry Regiment, headquartered north of Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

To the north it includes nearly all of the high school football bleachers that back up onto the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flying beings gathered themselves and then streamed away slowly, slowly, to the north and the south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he learned that a pair of English boatbuilders had taken up residence just to the north, in Vancouver, he set out in search of them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We found a little cottage on the north shore of a lake,” Dad explained. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the hills to the north lay the African Burial Ground and beyond that, the big pond called the Collect. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's no going north. Half the fields are burnt, and what folks are left are walled up inside their holdfasts. One bunch rides off at dawn and another one shows up by dusk." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I feel myself moving away, as though his north pole is approaching my north pole. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he is a strong man and a just one, the only man who can restore the realm and defend it against the peril that gathers in the north. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“This window looks north,” he said, tapping the glass with the crooked nail of his index finger. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The north was black; that was the direction we were headed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if he was tired or mad; I didn’t feel like talking to him, so I just concentrated on keeping the old pickup headed north. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And many folk used to dwell away north, a hundred miles or more from here, at the far end of the Greenway: on the North Downs or by Lake Evendim.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mostly they’re from Georgia and North Carolina and north, north Florida. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He left the cast on his leg until it rotted off, so that, in the words of horseman Wad Studley, “one leg went north and the other one southwest.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes after settling down for the night, wind-driven debris from the fire ignited the dry grass nearby, forcing them to abandon their things and retreat farther north. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When that other man had come this way, an army had followed close behind him, the great host of the north riding to war beneath the grey-and-white banners of House Stark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the north, in fact, the areas with the poorest natural endowments and the greatest susceptibility to drought were the most populous and successful. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the access highway they turned north and parked at the top of a hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

My parents sell their house and move up north. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other patrols had been sent out at once, but all that they had established was that the rabbits from the north had crossed the iron road and disappeared southward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liberty was reserved for other people, for the citizens of the City of Pennsylvania bustling a thousand miles to the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While the Irukandji lives in large numbers off the coast of Australia, Irukandji-like symptoms have been experienced as far north as the British Isles, and in Hawaii, Florida, and Japan. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Knights they might be, but they did not know the north. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You going north and I’m going to eat,” she said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Along all the roads troops were moving; for the Captains of the West were advancing and the Dark Lord was speeding his forces north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The site they picked was simply the highest ground they came to and it gave views north along the road and overlooked their backtrack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Maa speakers used to live all over Kenya, from north to south. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just north of Mole’s Town they came upon the third watcher, carved into the huge oak that marked the village perimeter, its deep eyes fixed upon the kingsroad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But then I pictured my father up north in New Jersey begging for work, and the devastated look on my mother’s face, and I hardened my heart. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if they bailed, like they bailed from his farm up north?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mop is there to hang while his parents get everything ready for the drive north. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We can still head north and get past the fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The MS control the tops of freight trains operating north of the Rio Suchiate, where many migrants going to the United States begin their trek through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go north, back into the forest, to the right of us.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cross the river to the north, and you arrive at the King’s College labs, where Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins began their work on DNA crystals in the early 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But after the journey north the evening games had disappeared, and Ophie sorely missed those better days. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Frightful was now north of the equator, but only about ten miles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nearly a year later, French soldiers and their Indian allies ambushed a large British unit led by General Edward Braddock north of Great Meadows. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The supports were tied together with strong vines that covered the north end of the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the gear in the back of Grampa’s truck and headed north out of town. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The other window looked out on the field toward the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were unmanned, and they could neither walk nor ride further north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The drive north turned out to be one of those sunny moments that come even in the darkest days. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To walk in there at night, heading north to the Free States. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She’d said he ran like the wind, which might be his ticket to a college up north. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly, I think the best times I have are playing cards or when I’ve dropped someone off and I’m heading back to town, maybe from the city or even further north. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was one of the biggest houses on the whole north side of town—three stories high. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fringed by mountains, the basin was about a hundred miles long from north to south and perhaps half that size from east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was such a gap: the silence of aftermath, in the dark of the night on the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, at the melted north anchor of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It is a well-worn prayer in Honduras, especially by children whose mothers have just left them to head north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid phoned her niece and told her to send her mother north immediately, where there were no Mexicans, she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor had I yet seen the worst of it: for now the west wind dropped, and a southeast gale came on—one more twist of the knife—taking me north again, straight for Kharybdis. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scanned the city like he was still looking for Annabeth until they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge and turned north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The weekend escape had offered a break from both office and climate, each mile north taking her farther away from the steam heat that had held the area hostage for the last few days. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Father pointed to a box of apples that had been sent down from the north from some of our kinsmen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather made it impossible to get a sun sight, but Worsley’s best guess put Clarence and Elephant isles about thirty or forty miles north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

On the north side of the bridge, the crowd was parted by palace guards. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had spoken one word that touched the very soul of me, but I could not talk to him, could not let him know that I was starving myself to save money to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contrast between north and south is striking—and instructive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, Clay and his friends headed toward the north fields, where the corn was grown, whooping like children as they galloped off. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it cleared, raw winds swept down from the north, whistling through corridors and hall, sending up whirls of dust in the courtyard, billowing the tapestries that hung on the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Found in the icy waters of the north. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He came to a large traffic circle where the road going north crossed the Oxford ring road going east and west. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same evening, at the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Oakland, Ky Ebright loaded his crews and his racing shells aboard the Cascade and headed north to Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The senior among them would have been no older than Bran when she went north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was now dressed and equipped as a trapper, and told them that I was trying to catch up with Mavriva’s outfit, which had gone north in the last days of Grende. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d walk two blocks north and eat hot dogs at Grant’s on the corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street, at the edge of “the Crossroads of the World,” Times Square. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My whole family grew up at the far north of town, which is kind of like everyone’s dirty secret. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She pedaled north past the cliff, still smoldering with the charred remains of the Westing house. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day trekking was like a cleansing—little talk, the white hush of the north welcoming Matthias back without judgment. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He can think of every pair that has helped him come north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Like the beautifully formed polar bears and foxes of the north, she was slightly short-limbed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in September he saw them in the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch put the bag down and turned to the window cut into the north wall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At that moment when the sky opened, a hot wind, as from a cannon, blew past the huts from the north. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cut by fences and the white of the road showed through the trunks of a double line of trees that crossed the plain toward the north. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

One very hot morning in July, we were down on north beach where Timothy had found a patch of calico scallops not too far offshore. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To go back to England—if I ever do—we will sail still farther north and then east to England to finish the circle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had stayed in Florida with Dad while Mother had gone north to find a job and a house. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later on he walked the way she had gone, following the arroyo east and then north, where it wound into the pale yellow hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a small cove further north, called just BEACH. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For sure. But this is where he spent most of his childhood, in what is now central and north central Wyoming. It wasn’t Wyoming then, of course.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Lord Frey's levies have joined them. They are likely no more than a day's march north of us." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And without another word she whisked round and began galloping north. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tendai was bored with Gondwannans, who lived far to the north and probably carried on their boring lives in exactly the same way as Zimbabweans. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Henry’s voice on the phone was a tether, his body is the gravity that makes it possible, his hand gripping the back of Alex’s neck a magnetic force, a permanent compass north. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it was thunder, out of the dark sky to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his face north toward Virginia, where he had been free of his hometown for a time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Five miles north of school, the Colonel moved into the left lane of the interstate and began to accelerate. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On January 16, McCandless left the stubby metal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of El Golfo de Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Likely it will be little enough. The brat hope is Winterfell. The Starks must rally the north." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He shook the snow off carefully, moving around the tree from the east to the south, and from the west to the north, his breath steaming out in front of him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you see a fire up north?” the dispatcher asked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bowditch Ledge astern to the north of them... Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The south bank of the Thames was like a poor reflection of the north bank, a sort of lesser London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even in this skies-forsaken place, I can point unfailingly to where the sun rises and where it sets, to the Empire's capital in the north, Antium, and to Navium, its main port due south. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So eventually Fred took his last three dollars and twenty-five cents and bought a bus ticket north for a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As they traveled north, the trees became taller, greener, stronger. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I rather expect that from now on I shall be traveling north until the end of my days.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Besides, I wanted to keep an eye out for any more signs of the blue light to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once I reached the street, I headed north, walking as fast as my feet would carry me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was a Democrat and he had strength in the north. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the war-sick arrive here, my family will have to move nearer to those colonies or go north, into the mountains. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The hum of those insects and the twisting limbs of the live oaks stayed with us long after we'd gone north again, beating in us almost like a second heart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s been an increase in recorded white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod. It’s possible that some of them are traveling farther north.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We stumble across seven abandoned pay phones in some ditch, underneath a highway leading north toward the Queensboro Bridge. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tradition has it that modern Sharia Nabi Danyal corresponds to the Street of the Soma, ancient Alexandria’s primary north—south byway. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He shrugged and said, “You might not believe it, but I was fated to be a priest. In the City of York. That’s far to the north.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Astrea crowded sail now, moving north and east through pleasant weather. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him that I was going north precisely to change, but I did not. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always enjoyed going north. Of course, south-west is a fine direction, too.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time Maurice arrived I was noticeably restless and impatient to return north. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He sold little, but the weekly trip was a small, if bitter, reminder of his life in the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

During those bad troubles, my father’s family traveled north to a small village to stay with relatives. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the white guys in my company yelled over to me from where he was pinned down by enemy fire on the north slope of Motoyama, a ridge in clear view of Suribachi. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could steal the horse and ride north. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this time I felt excitement, not pain—the same feeling I had as a child when my family and I took the train north from Guadalajara, crossed la frontera, and entered California. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself on Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco, fighting at the old Titan stronghold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She could see a definite shadow now to the north. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never been active in abolitionist circles up north but observing the monstrous system firsthand gave him thoughts he did not recognize. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was about a mile to the north. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A green dot for the Argo II blinked on the western side of the range, a few hundred miles north of Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On February 20, the crew awoke to find that their floe had been invaded by an enormous flock of Adélie penguins migrating north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And she stayed close alongside till both boats reached the north end of the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why go to all the trouble of transferring the boys up north only to ship them back in a month? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You will pass near Dragonstone when you turn north. I need you to deliver a letter for me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A speck of white floated through the darkness out of the north. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"The Wall's a long way north o' here." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Saluting the four directions—east, west, north, and south. It’s for Papa Legba. Are we going to New Jersey after school?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The wind was still out of the north so he ran almost downwind back to the entrance of the bay. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the lake, a silver airplane circled the area of the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around stupidly, then cursed, dropped the pinecones, and took off running, following the road north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He turned north and me and Syl’s ma and pa kept south. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When he looked out over those soldierless congregations, he must have seen ghosts, marching north. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There are barrows everywhere in the north, Your Grace," Ned told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the look she used to have when we would cut ourselves, a long time ago, up north. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the storm is thicker to the south, I'll go north to get around it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canal would carry the water away from the south to the Arab Muslims in the north and on to Egypt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I realized that was impossible, because we were at Fifty-seventh Street, which is north, obviously. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The employees in suite 601—which took up the entire north half of the floor, had no warning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then Loki wrapped the falcon cloak tightly about himself and, in falcon form, flapped his wings and rose, faster even than an eagle, and was gone, flying north, toward the lands of the frost giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

This is puzzling, because I’ve seen French people, there are lots of them up north, so he couldn’t have conquered all of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly she watched...everything: us kids playing in the river, the way the trees tilted to the north towards what was left of the natural landscape beyond the clear-cuts stripped of topsoil. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Even when the weather was warm, they’d have to stay out there for days, because it was always so damp in that hollow on the north side of the mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thunder and lightning were still boiling over Mount Tamalpais in the north. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, just north of downtown, there was a strange paradise, seemingly built for the working parent, seemingly built for me: a standard, supremely American, got-it-all strip mall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Izzy's high-rise retirement condominium was three towns north of Dad's swinging singles apartment complex. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my travels north, I had not found my brother. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual direction of the wind was north to south, off the glacier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below Wall on the west is the forest; to the south is a treacherously placid lake served by the streams that drop from the hills behind Wall to the north. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sat among a grove of smooth-barked beech trees, a day’s walk north of Paris. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We dared not use the main road north, but logging-roads lent their direction to us sometimes for a while, and as the forest was kept clear of fallen trees and undergrowth we got on well. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mouse told me that she wanted to roam, now that the storm had moved off to the north, so I let her out and shut the door again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I am never seeing other angels, not even when I float north and visit the goats. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Granny’s Uncle Lige Toy, who used to have a restaurant business feeding county prisoners, was in charge of Grandpa’s cotton warehouse, one of the biggest in north Georgia, and also the store’s cotton seed business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The trees here were still tall, so I wasn’t very far north, but they were dense, so I wasn’t too south anymore, either. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The toucans and cockatoos circled in confusion before flying north. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He breathed deeply, and each breath had a distinct smell of snow from the north, of ponderosa pine on the rimrock above; finally he smelled horses from the direction of the corral, and he smiled. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tires squealed as he spun around to face north, accelerating too quickly, swerving toward the stunned men on the street. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Conservative synagogue moved out of Levittown north of Route 1. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So they traveled in wide arcs, moving gradually to the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This second incarnation of the Klan found a large following north of the Mason-Dixon line. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

No spring force pulled her north with the returning falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Not only was the wind dead around me but dead for hundreds of miles to the north as well, for there were no swells, no motion whatsoever in the water coming down from the north. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Majestic mountains loom to the north, but they are a tease; the Idaho of snowy peaks and ski resorts, plus a handful of militias and survivalists, is a long way off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole bloody north would rally around them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The top half of Virginia is bisected by the Rappahannock River, which meanders from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the north and empties into Chesapeake Bay. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Although they had never met before, they immediately knew that the Fates had decreed for them a love as faithful as the north star. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

On Alex’s map, nevertheless, the broken line meandered west from the Parks Highway for forty miles or so before petering out in the middle of trackless wilderness north of Mt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there are wars in the south, killings in the north, rumors that foreigners took over the army and want to murder Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could walk the mile from Wall Street to the north edge of the city. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There ought to be a plaque to him somewhere in Norwich to inspire the few hardy hikers still heading north at this point, but sadly there is none. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the branches of the elm tree at the north wall of the Abbey, Cluny watched the shadows lengthen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He pulled the car off the Outer Drive at Seventh Street, drove north on Michigan Boulevard to Lake Street, then headed west for two blocks, looking for number 16. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he turned and started walking north on Hector, right down the middle of the street, right down the invisible chalk line that divided East End from West End. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the ride back north, I thought about the colonels letter, or rather, about my own pleasure in these trivial alterations. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They did not come again and it was quieter and between the gusts of wind and rain we could hear the sound of a great bombardment far to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The waves ran white-tipped on the grey sea, and grey clouds streamed overhead on the north wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was during a pause in this work that Speedwell reported that the digging above the north end had stopped. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of blocks north lay the huge wilderness that an early black settlement had been cleared out of to make room for the Dumping Grounds. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The trail led them north along the top of the escarpment, and at length they came to a deep cleft carved in the rock by a stream that splashed noisily down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Alec finally stopped as well, and suddenly Mark could hear every word. “—just north of here,” a woman was saying. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of going north and writing books, novels. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must be as fierce and hard as the north, Catelyn Tully. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ever as I came north I heard tidings of the Riders, and though I gained on them day by day, they were ever before me. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He drove north, making his way over the Wyoming border. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her stick points to within 3 degrees of true north.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We met at a restaurant north of Tampa, which was about halfway between our homes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There is only one break in the wall; an opening about six feet in width, a little to the north of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At six o’clock on Monday morning, the fire had been burning over nine hours, and seemed capable of continuing its march north unless more help could be found. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she’d made it north she would have disappeared into a life outside their terms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I looked to the north and saw the peak of the greystone hill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If white sharks were heading north, what if humans had to adapt? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

If a golden paradise had ever lain to the north, it wasn’t there anymore. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he discovered the treasure of the Seven Cities of Cibola which had drawn Coronado north from Mexico not so many years before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said they were buried on an island somewhere north of Manhattan. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He moved his family to a small but respectable house at Thirty-Ninth and Bagley, not far from the bakery and not far from the north end of Lake Union where Joe rowed nearly every afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Their mother might lose interest in her and Enrique, and the baby will make it harder to wire money and save so she can bring them north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the fellow began to pick the box the people begin to come from east, west, north and Australia. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Since I heard it could be cold up north, I took a nice blue one with a blanket lining. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know which direction the horned toad had been walking, but knowing which direction was north was a start. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It started with reports of increased fighting in the north and east, on the borders of Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He came to Wentworth Street, which ran north and south and clearly served as Englewood’s main commercial street, its pavement clotted with horses, drays, and phaetons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If Alaska was the land beyond the gods, Percy figured the farther north he went, the harder it would be to communicate with his friends, even in his dreams. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when the sun rose and I went out of the hut, the pack trotted off toward its lair which was at the north side of the island, in a large cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But during the high school all-star football game in July at the Astrodome between players from the north regions of Texas and ones from the south, he had felt an intense pain in his back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

When Red made it north, he took up with the railroad and dedicated himself to the cause with a sinister resourcefulness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We can head up north,” Mama said after a long moment, once everyone was settled inside. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It should have stretched east and west, but it extended north instead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seizing the moment, Lee escapes north across the Appomattox River and then turns west. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So you want to randomly flash S-O-S north, south, east, west and hope to get lucky?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sailing due north across Drake’s Passage in the winter would be suicide. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As Fivers, we all did six months’ guard duty at Kauf Prison, far to the north. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at O-lan haggardly and he said, “Now am I truly tempted to sell the little slave and go north to the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This one made it past the anti-aircraft guns and came in just as planned, easy peasy, about 70 miles north of here, on Mon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When Satin left, Jon seated himself and had another look at the maps of the lands north of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It burned sullenly, giving off an acrid smoke that the wind brushed away to the north and west, toward the unseen bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They reported that they were indeed from the south, from the empire of Concordia to be exact, and they had come north to spread the wisdom of their emperor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he rode north, looking for another fence that might be holding them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Agatha and her brood have decided to come north for the summer. And of course she’s going to bring her mother and aunt. So you will get to spend June surrounded by Virginians!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds. Thousands. Some sick, some burned, some wounded. The Cats and the Windblown are swarming through the hills with lance and lash, driving them north and cutting down the laggards.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In her mind she was back on the path, heading north, and now she realized there had been something tugging at her, so gently it was barely a whisper. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go around it, and reach the reservoir from the north.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He made a deal with Spain that gave France control of the middle of North America, from New Orleans north along the Mississippi. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was where I turned north most mornings to head up to the Bridewell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It picked up the blin but, instead of eating it, tossed the piece over its feathery shoulder, north, toward where Kin’s house hid in the ravine. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Moss turned to head out of the north exit, his bike hoisted up on his shoulder, but Esperanza stopped and grabbed his free arm. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to steal down the other side of the mountain to the north stream, found another camp of hunters there, and went back to my tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a relief to be back in her world, heading north across the state border. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The steel mill was off to our right, just a couple of miles north. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I was bom up north here. I know many a man, and many a man knows Reek." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She found the rolling earthen hills of the north in his eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That will make it difficult. She was coming north, you said. Was the lake to her east or to her west?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought that the Sun Temple is only eighteen miles north of Puri,” Mr. Das said, tapping on the tour book. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of Doroteo’s businesses, of their plans to build a house up north in those beautiful mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy Link came from Highland Park, an old planned community of what are now multimillion-dollar homes four miles north of downtown Dallas. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Along I-20, a superhighway that divides Atlanta into north and south, cars whizzed past at frightening speeds. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But this Indio must be north of here. Everything in California is north of here. We will take a northbound train ourselves. Come with us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was all north and it was all more days of walking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I certainly did look forward to the three months we spent every summer in Peitaiho on the ocean north of Peking. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron yelled as they flew farther and farther north. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And you look like the north side of a southbound mule.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived in London, we tumbled into three taxis and went clattering across the great city to King’s Cross, where we got on to the train for Newcastle, two hundred miles to the north. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I drove to Pennsylvania, thirty miles or so to the north. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The winter was much harder north of the city,” Tali said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They started before dawn one clear August morning, going due north in groups along the banks and hedges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you can spare a few of your swords, I need some men to escort two of Lord Frey's grandsons north to Winterfell," she told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even have any friends, because I had to leave them all behind when we moved here from Watley. Watley’s up in north Florida. Have you ever been to north Florida?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And as they moved north, their clothes, hunting strategies and other survival skills continued to improve. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook had mentioned that Mr. Henry had come with Mrs. Caruthers when she came north from Virginia as a young woman to marry her husband. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then he leapt forward, spurning the earth, and was gone like the north wind from the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Truth was that I had plans to go farther north than that, but I almost didn’t make it any farther. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he hoped to provide his little brother with something like the safe and secure home they had both known before their mother had died and their grief-stricken father had fled north. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some bands were driven north by wars, demographic pressures or natural disasters. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a traveler had crossed the river, a road lead east and reached another road that ran north and south. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the next car going north will pick us up.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At first we only heard stories about what happened to it on the north, after the forest closed down on it: a stream, a waterfall, clear pools for swimming. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke her in the middle of the night and took her to an abandoned quarry north of town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once again, Frear had to head north, well out of his way, before he could work his way close to his destination. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet because the plant would grow only in a small coastal area in north Africa, it was only available “wild,” and there- fore worth its weight in gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The ships left out in the bay could still land men north of the city; a slower crossing, but safer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They move slowly north behind the Blue Ridge, using the mountains to screen their movements. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama has a new friend, from up in Cap Haitien, in the north. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They faced north, gaping like statues cast in the moment of discovery, until Turtle Wexler, her kite tail of a braid flying behind her, raced her bicycle into the driveway. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got back in his car and headed north to Willits, where he spent several days visiting with Pollard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foot-long icicles hung from their eaves and the snow lay in drifts against the north side of their house: they should have gone on being summer people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We drove on in the autumn afternoon, heading north. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since almost all jobs in factories like Swift & Company were handed out to immigrants, most blacks did not consider a move north to be worthwhile. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sea was closer, only five leagues north, but Asha could not see it Too many hills stood in the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Kabuo laid his net out north to south by motoring away from it on a true blind heading as slowly as was possible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Small fires were still burning in the north, but otherwise the city seemed unnaturally peaceful. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The family continued north, passing through Salt Lake City, things and places blurring—the auto mall, McDonald’s, Best Buy, the exit for the University of Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If your last name ended in “berg” or “zog” or “stein,” you lived on the north side. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wright surprise us all one day by telling my mama that her and Massa was gonna take me and Missy up north for the summer. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Somewhere to the north of London lived a man called Baker who had never heard of us, but he held our future in the hollow of his hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried to catch up with the other soldiers, who were galloping north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hamilton turned north and we followed them across the inlet. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were coming from the north and down the road from Cividale. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The north lived in his voice, his accent from up there, like Caesar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"Of course," I said, "I will be doing the same but opposite. I will commute north in the winter and south in the summer." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We took 1-94 past River Rouge and Olympia Stadium and then curled in toward the river on the Lodge Freeway and entered the city from the north. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

About a hundred miles north of the Peru-Chile border, the coastal highway passes by an uninhabited beach ringed by a tall chain-link fence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Analogues of the geoglyphs to the north, they are typically five hundred feet across, though some are considerably larger. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “If it was me, I’d circle around and come from the south. You all go look north. I’m not expecting any trouble. These are my woods, I know what’s what out here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Standing head and shoulders above the crowd to the north was Michelangelo di Bologna. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If the government wants to hide somebody, there’s probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one recalls when the gift-giving started, probably in the 1980s, when Central Americans, fleeing war and poverty, began riding the rails north in large numbers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew from the north, long plumes of ice crystals flew from the high peaks like banners. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And that way was north where his father was, and that way east and that way south—and somewhere to die south and east his mother would be. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mount Toro, on the brother range to the west, was a rounded benign mountain, and to the north Monterey Bay shone like a blue platter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decide to walk to the restaurant, thirty blocks north of their apartment, four blocks west. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He let the world's wind, steady from the north, fill his sail of spell-cloth, and went speedily forth over the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The Greatjon has sons and daughters both. In the north the children of a man’s body still come before his uncles, ser.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Stannis and his captains were gathered over the map of the north. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They, like herself, were sensing the direction of the moving pickup—east, northeast, east, then straight north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We pulled out of the development and headed north, past the gates and guardhouses, past the high-tension wires and the osprey nests, toward the Lake Windsor campus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York is very simple: the avenues run north to south, the streets run west to east. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the pavilion was a sunken rectangular courtyard fenced on three sides by a row of seven-foot basalt columns atop a low red and yellow adobe wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I've never felt the carpet on the soles of my feet before, never felt the cold air rolling down off the windows along the north wall, never been even half this alert. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had been turning through north to north-west during the night, and now it failed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Strong signal. Moving north at about eighty klicks an hour.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

For centuries it stood on equal ground with its neighbors, the rising Maya states to the east and Teotihuacan to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Manchee and me get past the school building and up on the little ridge and look north and there it is, the town itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A hard winter sunlight seeped through the clouds, and the north wind blew cold and fast. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“By night, or under cover of mist,” said Adam, “a whole army could creep over hill and through forest without being seen. ’Tis from the north and west that we look for trouble. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They’d been fishing, in short, the same waters, with Carl a bit farther toward the north and down current: a thousand yards closer to the shipping lanes that gave Ship Channel Bank its name. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was only his hostage, a prize to show the north that he could vanquish the ironbom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The vines on north beach might make dark smoke, but the leaves on them were very small The sea grape! The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They plodded quietly through the dim afternoon light, heading two blocks north on University Avenue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He sure was. But there was another fort to the north. That’s where the interesting things happened,” said the old man. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time the three of them emerged north of the Wall the snow was falling steadily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A hint of a north wind lightly ruffled the water, lead colored now in the late afternoon haze. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two iron legions out of New Ghis, trained and armed in the same fashion as Unsullied, were encamped across the river to the north. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This one had came from a different direction—from the north. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the day before the orphanage opened, Baba took me to Ghargha Lake, a few miles north of Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the eye of the hurricane was off to the north, and the for side of the storm struck the marshland. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hardhome had been halfway toward becoming a town, the only true town north of the Wall, until the night six hundred years ago when hell had swallowed it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The north pole becomes the south pole and the south pole becomes the north pole: zero becomes infinity and infinity becomes zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

With both Robett and Galbart warring in the south, it would be lightly held, and once the castle fell the ironmen would have a secure base in the heart of the north. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Does that mean you don’t have any contact with Mbandaka right now? I thought it was supposed to be safer farther north.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The river marks the Guatemalan border, just as the Rio Grande defines the Mexican border to the north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Taisin and Kaede walked ahead of the sledge, leading the dogs north, while Con followed behind in their tracks to make sure the load remained stable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve gone west to the supermarket, south to the mall, north to the schools, but never east to the town. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked north on the Acoma road until the culvert and windmill were out of sight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mom taught French at the prestigious and expensive Kalman School downtown, and his dad was a sociology professor at Northwestern University, just north of the city. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But she was strong and moved nimbly up the narrow rocky path north of Betonie’s hogan. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to avoid going past, since it was off the only road going north of the village, but it was set back too far from the road for the fools to see. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Take the plane north, toward Central America and southern Mexico, into the bulge of the Yucatan Peninsula, homeland of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After an hour’s run, they found an opening and turned north to sail through it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After two years of living in the south, he tells Theo, he can see the north more clearly. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he resumed a life of constant motion, riding his thumb north and west through Red Bluff, Weaverville, and Willow Creek. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to each of the corners—the four directions—as if to bow to every single possibility around me: north, south, east, west. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She quickly found the status report; Watney always placed it close to the rover when rocks were in abundance, usually to the north. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If any Muggle is unwise enough to confide in another that he has spotted a Hippogriff winging its way north, he is generally believed to be drunk or a ‘loony’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later he found himself blinking in the light of a big, airy room with wide open windows, all looking north so that no sun came in. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I see. I don’t suppose any of us should have that responsibility for the blighted towns in the north of England?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Out there the wind was stronger, a cold north wind that howled across the lake, knifed through their layers of wool and leather, and set them all to shivering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As they entered the last half mile and came into the lee of the hills at the north end of the lake, the headwind died down. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Progress to the north was what they all hoped for, and yet some of the men, especially Worsley and Macklin, remained uneasy about the boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

This peninsula, part of the same geological formation as the Andes Mountains, reaches north from Antarctica like an outstretched arm, cradling the Weddell Sea. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day the hurricane was off Cape Hatteras, on its way north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When the family moved up north, Eugene had found that some of the other children at his school had roots in New York or Philadelphia or had been born right there in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Away in the South a dark patch appeared, and grew, and drove north like flying smoke in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the people who lived in the north were Muslim, and the government wanted all of Sudan to become a Muslim country—a place where the beliefs of Islam were followed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Live wires carry electricity above the trains for 143 miles north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly right up alongside the enormous wooden bleachers on the north side of the course, not more than ten feet from thousands of spectators screaming in unison, “Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The motion of the crowd flowed north again, and then a sound overpowered everything. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Someone might just get angry enough to cause me some real trouble if they thought I was leaving the South to move up north. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides that, as bad as the colored were treated, some folks got real mad when a colored left and moved up north. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the land started to rise, she cut sharply to the north. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He straddled it with both feet, gazing straight ahead at the north point of the weather vane. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Father Mulligan had died four years ago of viral hepatitis, in an ashram north of Rishikesh. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-six hours later, Vaughan’s body was spotted lying by the railroad tracks, thirty miles north of Oklahoma City. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They veered north and the mountains quickly hid them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A mile or so out to sea, a huge tanker is steaming north. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp north wind clashed the naked branches of the cottonwoods. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about north, south, male, female, full, empty, anti-clockwise, clockwise. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sailed out from between the dark cliffs, and on the sea was broad, bright morning, with a fair wind blowing from the north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was a thru-hiker—the first I had seen this far north—and like me was making for Dalton. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The bards of the north still sing of it,” Gwydion said. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the youngsters from Central America and Mexico who go north on their own do not memorize telephone numbers or addresses. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“There is a secret pass here in the north, a place where I hold sway, where Hannibal once crossed when he marched against Rome.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What I propose is that our clans join together and go north to explore this new world, and see what we can discover there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like huge round windows and looked out over the city, one facing north and one facing south. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We stayed offshore, following the lights north, and figured in the morning we'd locate an inlet where we might find a marina and rest up for a few days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The red team yelled taunts at us as they headed off toward the north. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They developed new weapons and sophisticated hunting techniques that enabled them to track and kill mammoths and the other big game of the far north. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was chill and the wind blowing from the north had winter in it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Hot Pot was a natural sulfur spring in the desert north of town, surrounded by craggy rocks and quicksand. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No more than half the other Houses of the north.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Already the ship had drifted 1,000 miles north and west with the pack ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For a moment Eddard Stark wanted nothing so much as to return to Winterfell, to the clean simplicity of the north, where the enemies were winter and the wildlings beyond the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Today, however, it’s not just the two of them traveling north. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a tiny cube-shaped room with a large rough-hewn stone standing against the north wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And Godry the Giant- slayer said, “The old gods of the north have sent this storm upon us. Only R’hllor can end it. We must give him an unbeliever.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I head north and then west and then south and then east, the car pushing ninety. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The soldiers from the north would probably kill us if they found us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the arrangements for our move north were completed, she broke the shattering news that she was going back to Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some reported seeing him north of the river, above the grass of the Dothraki sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, just north of Richmond Hill, near present-day Wall Street, Hamilton was boarding a small skiff with two oarsmen, his physician, Dr. David Hosack, and his own loyal associate Nathaniel Pendleton. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The shy giants wandered north and never returned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Once safely on the north bank, I asked a cheerful fishwife the way to The George, where I found Falconer eating his supper—fish, again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 1845, married and caring for a newborn daughter, John and Mary decided to move farther north and make Chicago their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Martha Washington and her ladies were north on the island and those left in the pews were Loyalist. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far to the north was Niflheim, the cold realm of death, and far to the south was Muspelheim, the land of fire. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When our feet were on firm ground again on the north bank, we stood looking up and down, wondering what to do next. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Setting out with six camels packing food enough for three months, Burke and Wills ran out of provisions while in the desert north of Menindee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

People had to drive three or four blocks north of the mosque to find a spot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They walked north through town, past the Hall of Elders and Birdsall Tavern, then headed east and to the path parallel to the Cursed Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky crumbled into a set of destructive storms and out of the north came hurricanes that scattered roofs about and knocked down walls and uprooted every last plant of the banana groves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was not surprised to see them standing together in front of the north entrance to the school building. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were cholera outbreaks all over England—from Liverpool in the north down to Oxford and even into East London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I row until the boat is further north, between our two houses, nearer to where our street becomes a stream. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pointed away far up the side of Rivendell to the north. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when he turned there were two riders approaching from the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony’s trusted general advised him to march north and challenge Octavian to a major confrontation in Macedonia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The horse lines were to the north, and beyond them, two dozen elephants grazed beside the water, pulling up reeds with their trunks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mindful of the red-tailed hawks, she flew north to get beyond their territory before heading for the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We’ll sail south to the Canaries, then west to the West Indies, and then north to Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, he heard a loud impact as the plane hit the other side of the South Tower, sending an explosion of wreckage and flames straight through the building and out the north side. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

To the north, we could hear the barking of seals from where they basked on Seal Rock. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went north around the vast basin of bones, and then west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north, about a mile away through the folds of the city, the top of the Colosseum rose above the rooftops, looking just like it did in travel photos. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the needle on the compass indicated they were headed north. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Wampanoag were rivals and enemies of the Narragansett and Pequots to the west and the many groups of Abenaki to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If they were only a few hundred miles north of Camp Jupiter, their quest was already doomed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Crossing the fields to the north I had seen a train pass on this railroad, visible a long way across the flat plain, and I thought a train might come from Portogruaro. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our Company proceeded north along the shore, a woodland upon our right; then marched along a road that led into the interior of the island, past a sizeable pond and several prosperous farms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Ngoni people marched north for many months and finally stopped in Chewa territory, where the soil was moist and fertile. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

An aurora is a group of flashing lights in the sky, usually seen only on clear nights in the far north. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the city gates they turned north, leaving the boulevard almost immediately and riding straight into the Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People, at least the white folks who had visited there, said that Yankees up north weren’t friendly and didn’t like you if you was from the South, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax darted to the north edge of the mill ruins, near the tents and vehicles. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before sunset, I walk in the small graveyard that nesdes against the chapel’s north face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Finally, as dusk was settling over the north, Jon rolled the empty barrels back into the cage and signaled the winch men to lower him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sun shone more than twenty hours a day, and they knew they were on their way north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The five of us rode up in the north elevator, taking turns listing the goods stored in our pantry by food group. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Up north in those beautiful mountains where both your mother and father were murdered! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To you alone I will confide that on that night I shall be sixty miles north of here, for we must have all our forts sufficiently strengthened so as... Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over his pallet was a window that looked out on the sea, but most often the shutters must be closed against the great winds that blew all winter from the west and north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The giant double door was on the north end of the room. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you 1 know the way north? To the Wall and . . . and even past?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Migrating birds rested and gathered strength for the long flight north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We drove up farther north of the city, where some of the richer kids in school live. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was too far north, within striking distance of Union troops. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the men near Crazy Horse looked north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They think their children are ungrateful and bristle at the independence they show—the same independence that helped the children survive their journeys north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was something happening up north the next morning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My finger skims the cities of Yangon, near the coast, and Mandalay, the darker mountainous region farther north. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Despite she wasn’t exactly a Yankee, she was from way north of Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Our driver heads straight for Lake Shore Drive north. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the bonobos were secured in the truck, it hit me: They had to fly north, then take the cages by dugout canoe up the Congo River until they reached the release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would plant timber bamboo along the north side to jut up into the open space and shade the roof. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the pyre, the children saw a clutch of nobles standing amid the merchants and Jews who had come from their homes on the north bank. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We drove through a Burger King for breakfast, then got right back on Route 301 and drove north. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

To the hobbits as they looked out it seemed that all their journey north had been useless. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But as she thought about it, what other house was there north of the village, over the bridge? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That old fake about the moss growing on the north sides of trees lied to me when I was a Boy Scout. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatchet’s men had left the lake three mornings ago, and she and Archer had continued following them north. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people rushing north for this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a fertile farming area located about thirty-five miles north of Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A wind comes from the north and makes you shiver so hard, your teeth chatter. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We must’ve been on the north shore of Long Island, because on this side of the house, the valley inarched all the way up to the water, which glittered about a mile in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost upon him before Bigwig turned and began to limp up the north slope of the combe toward the trees of the Belt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we got north of Phoenix, past all the tract-house suburbs, the traffic thinned, and Dad started going faster and faster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. ’Bout a month ago, me and Big Charlie made some plans to go north. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was one of these, a small, sturdy man, who had found Dustfinger four years ago in a town up in the north, just as he was about to give his last show. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he throttled up, turned tight, and motored west, adjusting to the north less than five degrees in the hope of stumbling across a buoy marker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled Devin out of line in the north and brought him in alongside Gamble: two thousand men facing west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

God, going north, and rising on the wings of power, had become white, and Allah, out of power, and on the dark side of Heaven, had become—for all practical purposes, anyway—black. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I saw people walking,” he said, pointing to the north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, they both head north toward the Han River. One will take you to the east side and the other will take you to the west side.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She took me north to El Paso, and years later she laughed about how long she had waited for me in that village full of dirty stupid people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he was very interested in everything that lay to the north because no-one ever went that way and he was never allowed to go there himself. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They struck off north and west along a crooked game trail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some of them ended abruptly only a few miles in; the longest followed the river Nir north, and then ended just south of where the Nir intersected with the Kell, which flowed east. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her whip was gone, so she used her hands and feet and turned him north by east, the way the scout had gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The Empire State Building is located at latitude 40 degrees, 44 minutes, 53.977 seconds north; longitude 73 degrees, 59 minutes, 10.812 seconds west. Thank you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Southern-born, he had migrated north and his life reflected the crude hopes and frustrations of the peasant in the city. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dan’t get down here but once a year in the fall. Forage for the hogs makes it worth moi while, but only just. There’s strange things in these woods. Especial off tae the north.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sound of the battle in the north grew steadily in intensity. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandma met us at the airport, and from there we drove twenty-five miles north to a suburb called Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The only hope I had was the north side library. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Alex smooths out the lapels on his tux and hovers close to June and Nora as the guests roll in, waiting at the north entrance near the photo line. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sea was blue and green and the sun blazing down from an empty blue sky when the Iron Fleet took its second prize, in the waters north and west of Astapor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The engineer’s crooning drifted back, songs she did not recognize, debris from the north kicked up by the gale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Cotter Pyke’s galleys were reporting ever-increasing numbers of free folk along the wooded shores to the north and east of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But more than a few blocks away, north of the raucous automobile traffic and elevated railway on 86th Street, was a strange unknown territory, off-limits to my wanderings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them cut across our way, so we too must go north, not east. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the gods fought each other to a bloody standstill, an army of monsters would rise in the north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the north end of the island, the ancient brick walls and stepped pyramids of the slaver port Ghozai had suf-fered the same fate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But did the wind come down from the north or out of the west on the North Slope of Alaska? Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This summer we’re in a rented cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They approached very quietly, upwind from the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed into New Mexico, rushed past Gallup in the night, and camped on the Continental Divide—and much more spectacular it is here than in the north. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited, lying flat beyond the ditch along the main road while a German battalion passed, then when they were gone we crossed the road and went on to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lacking any help, I had to escort him to the north gate personally and get the attention of officers on the mess-hall bridge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning north I saw that what the swineherd had said was true. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

West, he decided, for no special reason, and he began to walk that way, following the pathway nearest the north edge, where the gravel looked freshest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"If you are to rule in the north, you must think these things through, Robb. Answer your own question. Why would anyone want to kill a sleeping child?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They walked through town and on, north along the Connecticut River. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lived in the north campus, and the Computer Center was in the north campus,” Joy went on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If they had not dressed him and led him to the car, he would still be there, drifting along the north wall, invisible in the gray twilight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He aimed north toward Charles and the weakening memories of his childhood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. All right, mate. I’m gonna get some sleep. Big day tomorrow. Taking my boat round the north side —” “You have a boat? Are you a pirate?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s interesting. I think I remember something about your father. He was sent up north to a village to investigate a dragon. How did that turn out?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They pursued their new prey the way they had once hunted seals and bears in the frozen north, and they hunted with an implacable appetite. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the north from the Black Gate through Cirith Gorgor there flowed whispering along the ground a thin cold air. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Me and TaShon have got the boat’s tip facing more north. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His own way led north to Chambersburg, but he knew that Longstreet would have to know who these people were so close to his line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began fighting for independence from the north. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one can go north, one can turn around and head south; equally, if one can go forward in imaginary time, one ought to be able to turn round and go backward. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been picked, packed, and chilled on Monday, flown by jet to Los Angeles Tuesday, trucked north and put on sale in Berkeley by Thursday, and steamed, by me, Sunday night. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The king's command traveled like an echo from guard to guard up the stone stairway to a small chamber in the drafty north tower. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He moved on more slowly, and she kept watching the sky until her eyes splintered again with tears of cold, and she saw no end to the numberless witches flying north. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

From there, I take the Metro north, up to Howard University. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Can you give me a ride however far north you are going?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra could hear very faintly to the north the cry of some night bird. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavours of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Botocudo were an indigenous group that lived a few hundred miles north of what is now Rio de Janeiro. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A few bees flew out of my head as I walked north with my buckets, blown out by the strong cast wind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“La frontera” is a word I often heard when I was a child living in El Rancho Blanco, a small village nestled on barren, dry hills several miles north of Guadalajara, Mexico. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They drove through the woods and headed north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But this man did not even smile as he said, “You must be the cousins from the north.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Johnson family were recent arrivals in their San Francisco community—a middle-class, middle-income real-estate development high in the hills north of the city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper acknowledged that times were tough down south but cautioned that the employment market for blacks up north was too weak to support a mass of new job seekers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"And it will only grow worse. The day may come when I will have no choice but to call the banners and ride north to deal with this King-beyond-the-Wall for good and all." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But it will stall. Stay north of the cliff at least for a while. Please, listen to me!” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You from the north, then? I heard you have a lot of fun up there.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four giant wheels were carved on the north and south sides of the plinth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Further long overwater canoe voyages brought settlers north to Hawaii, east to Pitcairn and Easter Islands, and southwest to New Zealand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After several turns they came to a house close to the wall of the citadel upon the north side, not far from the shoulder that linked the hill with the mountain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once they’re a solid, dark mass, they speed off back north. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a village in the north of France where peasants were venerating a dog as a saint. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Below him, on the hilltop, the heads of the men turned north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She disabled a third siege weapon by sawing through the torsion ropes, which should give the Argo II a clear approach from the north. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Late in the day on the north face of the Thumb, I felt the glue disintegrate with a swing of an ice ax. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d finish the field on the north side of the village, and cross to the west — but that was a long walk, and he’d let me ride the ox. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning, everyone north of us was at Temple Beth-El. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Why, Maine extends northward almost to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and its upper border is perhaps a hundred miles north of Quebec. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who stood with all those other souls who took runaways into their homes, fed them, carried them north on their backs, died for them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Just before we reached the South Dakota border, Gramps took a detour north because he had seen a sign advertising the Pipestone National Monument in Pipestone, Minnesota. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z