box the compass

Inside fifteen minutes I could box the compass around and back again.

Naming all 32 points on the rose is called "boxing the compass".

Boxing the Compass was the title printed above the woodcut.

Instead of boxing the compass with outlandish names you can plot direction by degrees.

All except Jim, who had published Boxing the Compass in the first place.

Were not people who had boxed the compass of ideas the fittest to govern their fellows?

He could no more box the compass than I could mix drinks like Roberts here.

It was motor-driven, turning slowly, boxing the compass with electric piety.

We have boxed the compass among us.

And he wondered if Swan, the young first lieutenant who was now waiting at the wheel, could remember how to box the compass in quarterpoints!

He boxes the compass in his infant soliloquies.

Boxing the compass (naming all 32 winds) was expected of all Medieval mariners.

The article on boxing the compass contains a more recent list of directional winds from the Mediterranean Sea.

North by West, see Boxing the compass

Esmerelda was boxing the compass!

The town lies Boxing the compass of Edinburgh

We'd been on all sorts of courses, just about boxing the compass day after day for almost five days, searching all the time.'

Boxed the compass.

Boxing the compass, the act of naming all thirty-two points of the compass

We had been sailing through a circular storm, Captain West vouchsafed to me, before the event, and the wind could be expected to box the compass.

West-Southwest, a compass point for "Boxing the compass"

and Boxing the compass of London.

Some others showed a nautical origin; Te Ua boxed the compass like any pakeha sailor."

2010: Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass

Lloyd George had already boxed the compass by declaring himself an unrepentant and convinced free trader'; Baldwin's policy, he said, was 'unutterable folly'.