The ebb's just setting in from the nor'-nor'-east and will carry you back here.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Eight Bells Toll]

The wind is fair at nor'-nor'-east and we can make the passage as soon as day breaks, in half an hour, My Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

"Ten to the east, ten to the west, ten to the nor'-nor'-east, ten to -".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holiday Round] Reference

"Fire," said Bill, "in the form of a common cowshed, is burnin 'about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff] Reference

'Fire,' said Bill, 'in the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Pudding] Reference

On the 8th I passed Cape Nichola Mole, and on the 9th made the island of Heneago, bearing nor'-nor'-east, four leagues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Hurry] Reference

North: north by east; nor'-nor'-east; nor'-east by north; nor'-east; nor'-east by east; east nor'-east; east by north; east; -- and so on with the other quarters of the circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships] Reference

Before that moment arrived, however, a little air of wind came along out from the westward, and, with our port braces slightly checked, we began to creep away on a nor'-nor'-east course for Boeroe Strait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference

Why, there was my brother Tom, in the Cunard service -- same that boast they never lost a passenger; there was my brother Tom, he was out one day off the Newfoundland banks, heavy swell setting in from the nor'-nor'-east, icebergs ahead, passengers battened down -- Bless my soul, how that light seems to come and go, don't it? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Taboo] Reference

Lyin 'nor'-nor'-east. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

Or, pathetically, "DID I say nor'-nor'-east, Teddy, or didn't I?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference

"nor'-nor'-east" (N.N.E.), and the corresponding one between N.E. and E. is "east nor'-east" (E.N.E.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships] Reference