septentrional

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If the swastika and the septentrional set of ideas spread from one centre then we should expect to find them accompanied by traces of a common language.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Now while I’m examining them, watch closely, and see if you do not observe the peculiar curve of the nostril I was speaking to you about as characterising the septentrional species of the tribe.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

The land lieth south and north, containing in length between 300 and 400 miles, accounting from Cape Race, which is in 46 degrees 25 minutes, unto the Grand Bay in 52 degrees, of septentrional latitude.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.

"And unless they have been able to double Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope," replied Shandon, "they must necessarily have rounded the septentrional coasts of America—that's what I call indisputable, doctor."

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules

Cow's milk could be obtained in very small quantities, but it was of evil flavour; butter, in the septentrional sense of the word, did not exist.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George