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Northeastern

adjective

Situated in or oriented toward the northeast. Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly.

Of a region of the United States generally including the New England states; New York; and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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"Northeastern" Quotes from Famous Books

... reported in the morning dispatches and created some excitement; but the vessel did not sustain any substantial injury. We thought it best to leave it for a time to be thoroughly examined and repaired and took another vessel to complete our journey to Eastport, the northeastern port of the United States. From thence Webb Hayes and myself returned to Portland and crossed over the Burlington, Vermont, on Lake Champlain, and from thence went to Saratoga, where we remained a few days, and then returned to Washington on ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... the northeastern shore of Lake Erie in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, is the second most important grape region in America. The "belt" is a narrow strip of lowland averaging about three miles in width, lying between Lake Erie and a high escarpment which bounds ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

... "these northeastern lands which the Gulf Stream pets and tempers"; yet he passed through this dear old town without stopping, remarking only that he could not be content for a week here, and felt no interest in the place apart from its historic associations. Let him stop next time and investigate. We ...

— Over the Border: Acadia • Eliza Chase

... of allied character is the superpower development of the Northeastern States, consideration of which is growing under the direction of the Department of Commerce by joint conference ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge • Calvin Coolidge

... San Juan, which can be taken as a fair index of that along the northeastern coast, averages about 6.65 inches during August, 5.30 during September and 7.10 during October. But in some years the heaviest fall was in September. Not infrequently the cultivated fields and plantations are inundated, and swamps are ...

— Porto Rico - Its History, Products and Possibilities... • Arthur D. Hall

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