Sentence examples for from different compass points from inspiring English sources

They may arrive on Interstates, and from different compass points.

By early 1863, confederates had hundreds of large-caliber guns from all compass points trained on the main channel into Charleston.

We then measured the time taken to reach the nearest ECF and the government-designated TC from four compass points within each town.

The name NEOS is drawn from the four compass points in French -- Nord, Est, Ouest, Sud.

Nearly all the charts are bordered with vignettes — different views of the land from the sea, from specified distances and compass points, with ships sailing in the foreground, or maybe men working in clouds of steam on the hull of a man-of-war.

The much more serious challenges to Europe's chances of standing as a model society of nations come from different points on the compass.

There are four main eight-foot panoramas, perspective views of the city from each of the compass points.

And there are clear differences between the­ compass points.

After all, while points at different angles of inclination upwards or downwards from the horizon, or at different compass directions will project light to different parts of the retina, points that differ only with reference to their distance outwards from the eye will project light onto the same part of the eye.

Now that it is portable, I can spin it on an axis, I can point my head and point my desk in different compass directions for different projects.

Another monument is the octagonal, 42-foot-high marble Horologium of Andronicus of Cyrrhus, usually called the Tower of the Winds because each side bears a weather-beaten figure of the wind from that particular compass point.