On the weak and aged, and especially on delicate Females, the force of attraction tells much more heavily than on the robust of the Male Sex, so that it is a point of breeding, if you meet a Lady in the street, always to give her the
North side of the way -- by no means an easy thing to do always at short notice when you are in rude health and in a climate where it is difficult to tell your North from your South.
"I, Jose da Silvestra, who am now dying of hunger in the little cave here no snow is on the
north side of the nipple of the southernmost of the two mountains I have named Sheba's Breasts, write this in the year 1590 with a cleft bone upon a remnant of my raiment, my blood being the ink.
Later a second company marched through Chobham to deploy on the
north side of the common.
For all my unkind comparisons to swans and backyards, it cannot be denied that each dock or group of docks along the
north side of the river has its own individual attractiveness.
Livesey take the
north side, if you please; Jim, the east; Gray, west.
On the following day, the ship having drifted near the land, anchored in fourteen fathoms water, to the northward of the long peninsula or promontory which forms the
north side of the entrance, and is called Cape Disappointment.
The sky was cloudless, but the stars were dim at the approach of day; there was a light mist on the river, and the great buildings on the
north side were like palaces in an enchanted island.
They were on the
north side of the point so that their presence was concealed from those at the cabin.
It was Turan's hope to find upon the
north side of the city away from the hills a level plain where grew the crops of the inhabitants, and here too water from their irrigating system, but though he traveled far along that seemingly interminable wall he found no fields nor any water.
In the night, I took my first contrivance, and got up in a tree, where I slept well; and the next morning proceeded upon my discovery; travelling nearly four miles, as I might judge by the length of the valley, keeping still due north, with a ridge of hills on the south and
north side of me.
This river lies on the
north side of the great bay or gulf which goes up to Siam.
They took him to a room where other prisoners were waiting and here he stayed until court adjourned, when he had another long and bitterly cold ride in a patrol wagon to the county jail, which is on the
north side of the city, and nine or ten miles from the stockyards.
north side - the side that is on the north