Steering, nor'-nor'-west, each following close upon the next ahead, they rode in deep silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of a Trooper] Reference

Night fell soon after this; but the long-boat still held her way, running before the wind, and steering a nor'-nor'-west course by compass.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story] Reference

It was but scraps that reached me: how he "filled her on the starboard tack," and how "it came up sudden out of the nor'-nor'-west," and "there she was, high and dry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

Even when he had to steer nor'-nor'-west arter that in the way o 'business he didn't like it, an' he was about the most cruelly disappointed man you ever saw when he heard afterwards that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many Cargoes] Reference

The wind was out from about nor'-nor'-west, and had been blowing very fresh all day, notwithstanding which the ship was under all three royals, and fore and main topgallant studdingsails, her course being south-east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference

We were now running before it, rolling from port to starboard and back again from starboard to port, almost gunwales under, with the sail we had on us now, for it was blowing a good ten-knot breeze from the nor'-nor'-west, the breeze having shifted again since sunset, right astern, instead of being dead ahead, as previously, of our proper tract for the open sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Treasure] Reference

"'Mr. McMillan,' ses he excitedly, 'steer nor'-nor'-west until further orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many Cargoes] Reference

"'Three times I Ve been woke up this night by something shouting in my ear," Steer nor'-nor'-west! "'ses the cap'n very solemnly,'" Steer nor'-nor'-west! "that's all it says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many Cargoes] Reference

At 7: 30 the wind flew into the nor'-nor'-west, and blew a hurricane. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

From nor'-nor'-west; and I, an idle lubber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference

"Keep her nor'-nor'-west!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock] Reference

The ship was heading nor'-nor'-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America] Reference