1710 J. Plaisted & M. Plaisted Deed 30 Mar. in L. B. Chapman York Deeds (1892) VII. f. 150 Bounded by s^d fence on a Northeastwardly point Seventy Eight pole to a maple & birch tree markt four Sides.

1796 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 351 The north-eastwardly end of the tunnel.

1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 245 North-eastwardly winds..were the next that prevailed.

1853 Sci. Amer. 3 Sept. 403/4 Both of these phenomena being due to the northeastwardly progress of the cyclone.

1863 S. A. M. Wood in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1890) 1st Ser. XXX. ii. 159 After moving in a north-eastwardly direction for 4 or 5 miles, we approached the field near the right of our army.

1998 F. Whitlock Rock of Anzio 322 Patch was pushing the 45th to continue its drive in a northeastwardly direction..and cut off the Germans heading for the Belfort Gap.

1753 C. Gist Jrnls. 27 Dec. (1893) 85 The Indian steered too much north-eastwardly.

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia iv. 28 Our mountains [run] nearly parallel with the sea-coast, though rather approaching it as they advance north-eastwardly.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 25 Returning north-eastwardly from Tiverton.

1854 W. H. C. Hosmer Poet. Wks. I. 302 North-eastwardly my glance I turned.

1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 882 The old maps represent the Permian as extending from the Kansas boundary line north-eastwardly to the Platte river.

1918 Amer. Hist. Rev. 23 644 His final withdrawal was compelled by the advance north-eastwardly from Paris of the Sixth French Army.

1957 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 2 198 Studies were conducted of East Bay, a northeastwardly directed arm of the Galveston Bay system of Texas.

1996 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 23 639/1 Humphrey..showed the western distribution limit..to be east of a line roughly extending from Del Rio, Texas northeastwardly through Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.