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As sunrise reddened the Mountain of Gont behind them they raised the high sail and ran southwestward over the Gontish Sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
When the Trojans had taken leave of their kind hosts and had successfully rounded the eastern tip of Italy, they kept on sailing southwestward around Sicily with all confidence in their prophetic guide. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
The sun, risen behind the copse, threw long shadows from the trees southwestward across the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The weather threat extends southwestward across parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas. Risk of severe storms persists from Texas to Great Lakes 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z
Four lengthy dry periods that occurred between 6.25 million and 8.75 million years ago likely drove those creatures to migrate southwestward into Africa, Böhme and her colleagues reported last month in Communications Earth & Environment. The rise and fall of the world’s largest lake 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z
The system is forecast to move southward to southwestward and emerge over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico later on Tuesday, the NHC said. Weather system over eastern Florida has 50% chance of becoming... 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z
To tackle this question, we numerically simulated a sudden southwestwards destabilization of a large part of the Anak Krakatau volcano, and the subsequent tsunami formation and propagation. Why the "Child of Krakatau" Volcano Is Still Dangerous 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z
Thursday's worst weather was expected from the Chicago and Detroit areas southwestward to near Dallas. Hail, high winds, tornadoes possible for Midwest on Thursday 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z
Scape 1–2° high; leaves linear to lanceolate, entire to dentate or laciniate; head often pubescent or villous; achene long-beaked.—Minn. to Neb. and southwestward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
"Cultivated extensively for ornament and sparingly escaped in Missouri and southwestward to Central Mexico." Texas Honey Plants 2012-04-04T02:00:58.927Z
Remarks.—The taking of specimens on Mount Tanc�taro extends the known geographic range of Neotomodon approximately 75 kilometers to the southwestward; the westernmost locality previously known was Nahuatzin, the type locality. An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico 2012-03-24T02:00:18.660Z
Then land shot up into view to the southwestward, and all felt that they were saved. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z
Immediately below Beloit the river turns southwestward and continues in this direction about five miles before turning again to flow in a southeastward course for approximately another five miles. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z
Mo., and southwestward.—Probably runs into the next. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
The southwestward advance of the European ice sheet and the southeastward advance of the Labradorean sheet in America were stopped by the Atlantic. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z
Young Brayton, with half a dozen troopers, had been despatched southwestward along the falda, ordered to search high and low for Lawrence, dead or alive. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z
But one day came with joy and thankfulness the report that a sharp-eyed boatswain had seen several deer skirting the snowy hill-tops to the southwestward. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z
A new study suggests that a blast akin to one that devastated Iceland in the 1780s would waft noxious gases southwestward and kill tens of thousands of people in Europe. Return of a Killer Volcano 2011-09-19T20:00:00Z
It was the southern Piedmont which furnished leaders for the southwestward movement in the succeeding generations. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z
To the north of the irregular and diversified portion of southern California, where the Great Basin region extends southwestward to the Pacific, rises the southern Coast Range of California. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
Mac turned and gazed away southwestward along the line of the San Saba hills. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z
The next possible barrier to their homeward movements would have been Huron Bay, which would have forced them southwestward, at least temporarily. An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf 2011-01-21T03:00:13.917Z
Are starting to-day southwestward along the land, intending to cross over to Spitzbergen at the nearest point. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896
Setting out southwestward, they visited the Cheyennes, Crows, Little Foxes, and Bows. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z
The Green and Grand Rivers, fed by many tributaries, unite to form the Colorado, which flows southwestward for some 700 miles and discharges its muddy waters into the Gulf of Lower California. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
Pinzon had repeatedly advised that the course be altered to the southwestward. The Ifs of History
Five minutes later No. 13 left the pen running southwestward, and No. 11 left less than 5 minutes later. An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf 2011-01-21T03:00:13.917Z
At last it grew less and less, off to the southwestward, and finally vanished altogether. At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy
From Fort Yukon the run was mostly to the southwestward, past the settlements of Shaman's, We Are, Nulato, and a dozen similar places, Indian villages, the home of fur traders, missionaries, and of fishers. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon
In January, 1880, a combined movement by armed bodies of internal revenue officers was made from West Virginia southwestward through the mountains and foothills infested with illicit distillers. Our Southern Highlanders
His sun had set, but he tried to follow it southwestward. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women
During this phase, all three wolves left the immediate vicinity of the release point and headed southwestward. An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf 2011-01-21T03:00:13.917Z
They have been frequently accompanied by barometric troughs, extending south or southwestward toward the Gulf, in which rainy weather and high winds or gales have prevailed. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877
After the failure and disgrace of Burr the stage was cleared for another leader in the southwestward movement. Andrew Jackson
We are wont to think of the South as a low country with sultry climate; yet its mountain chains stretch uninterruptedly southwestward from Virginia to Alabama, 650 miles in an air line. Our Southern Highlanders
The general flow of Virginia migration after 1740 was southward along the Piedmont into the Carolinas or southwestward through the Valley of Virginia, not north and northwest to the Forks of the Ohio. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783
By the 14th, No. 11 and 13 had moved 2 miles southwestward, but were separated by a half-mile; No. 12 had moved only a half-mile west. An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf 2011-01-21T03:00:13.917Z
Then they came once again to the woods, and here discovered a well-defined trail running southwestward. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake
See you here at noon, fer grub!” and picking up his axe he strode off to southwestward of the camp to investigate a valley which he had located the day before. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories
Wild from western New York southwestward, and occasionally cultivated as an ornamental tree. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination
Seventy miles to the southwestward lay the nearest point of white habitation, where stood the Hudson Bay Company's Fort of God's Voice. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin
And at length they came clear of the headland and saw a great stretch of open sea to the southwestward with a faint, white dot of sail at its farthest edge. The Black Buccaneer
He found no work at Jacksonville, and walked to Winchester, sixteen miles to the southwestward, where he hoped to get work as a teacher. Stephen Arnold Douglas
Under its adventitious guidance we should strike the stage road at Bitter Creek, eighty or one hundred miles; thence trundle, veering southwestward, for the famed City of the Saints, near two hundred miles farther. Desert Dust
The company passed along the shore of the Green River, down the Big Sandy River and Slate Creek, over Bear River Divide, then southwestward into Utah Territory. Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method
The supply of gas available must have been great, for it continued to pour southwestward for some hours in great volume, in some places reaching to a height of several feet. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
Captain Job, with Tom to help him, stood grimly at the thrashing tiller and drove the sloop southwestward at a terrific gait. The Black Buccaneer
The clearing reached, they found a well-defined trail running to the southwestward. The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch
Subsequently signals were received up to 8.46 p.m. showing that the course of the Battle Fleet was to the southwestward. World's War Events, Vol. II
And as they fled southwestward, with Purgatory far behind, Harlan swept his hat from his head and bowed toward the mighty valley, saying lowly: “You’re sure a hummer—an’ no mistake. 'Drag' Harlan
This river Miscousing on which we now are," returned Jolliet, "flows, as we see by our compass, to the southwestward. Heroes of the Middle West The French
The battle front of the Unionists ran around the northeast corner of the farm, across the Lafayette road and to the southwestward. An Undivided Union
As the midday meal was in preparation, columns of black smoke appeared to southwestward. A History of Sea Power
The weather cleared at last, and they pushed on southwestward, between Box Elder Creek and Powder River. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
And then, his reflections becoming increasingly interjectional as the train trundled away southwestward, Lord Fallowfeild leaned back in the corner of the railway carriage and fell very fast asleep. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
We passed our ancient breastworks at Hatcher's Run, and extended our lines southwestward till they touched Dinwiddie Court House, thirty miles from City Point. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
The brook was soon gained, and found to flow to the southwestward. An Undivided Union
Their speed at this time, however, seems to have been held up by the auxiliary cruiser Otranto, which later retreated southwestward, and their efforts to close were thwarted by the enemy's turning slightly away. A History of Sea Power
He drove up it and turned back southwestward. Wind
Virginian pioneers had also betaken themselves southwestward to the head of the Tennessee. History of the United States, Volume 2
My battle had been maintained, in general, a mile and more southwestward of Middletown and in the vicinity of our camps of the night before. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
The result was an extraordinary movement southwestward, especially from the older South and Kentucky, where population was almost stationary during a period of twenty years. Expansion and Conflict
At 1.20 the German light cruisers scattered to southwestward, followed by the Cornwall, Kent, and Glasgow. A History of Sea Power
The other body he sent under Morgan to the southwestward, to threaten the inland posts and their garrisons. The War of Independence
Farther off, southwestward, still another peak rises blue and pale against the burning distance. Marion's Faith.
By this time the band was traversing a vast expanse of salt marshes, and after crossing a little tidal stream near its head, they turned sharply southwestward toward the sea. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
The great stream of immigrants entering at the port of Philadelphia and flowing westward and southwestward was joined by a tributary stream entering at Charleston. A History of American Christianity
The Dresden, making well above her schedule speed of 24 knots, had disappeared to southwestward early in the afternoon. A History of Sea Power
It is as dangerous to go back as forward; and forward Hudson sails, southwestward for that sea Drake had cruised off California, the old mate's mutiny rumbling beneath decks like a volcano. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
"Go, Dandy!" he mutters with gentle pressure of leg, and the sorrel bounds lightly away, circling southwestward under the guiding rein. Marion's Faith.
Then, turning southwestward, close under the bluffs of the Indian shore, they rode within the reservation lines at last, with the dawn no longer at the sabre hand, but at the bridle. Under Fire
Surely his coasting westward, southwestward, abreast the long arm of Alaska's peninsula for a thousand miles, should have proved that no open sea—no Northeast Passage—was here, between Asia and America. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
The snow was now falling thick and fast; the flakes traced white spirals and made her head spin, so that she was constantly falling away to the southwestward and then correcting herself by the compass. The Literary World Seventh Reader
The wanderings of La V�rendrye and his sons for the next few years led southwestward far as the Rockies in the region of Montana, northwestward far as the Bow River branch of the Saskatchewan. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
The attack began in the Julian Alps and continued along the Isonzo southwestward into the plain of Venice. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War
Go thou back to the hogan," whispered Nacaytzusle to him, "and tell the men to be there," pointing southwestward, "four days from now. The Delight Makers
They were coasting that long peninsula of Alaska that projects an arm for a thousand miles southwestward into the Pacific. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
Leaving the boat with ten of their company to guard it they struck off southwestward through a country of forests, lakes and streams. Days of the Discoverers
With these sixty La Roche follows the fishing fleet out to the Grand Banks, then rounds southwestward for milder clime, where he may winter his people. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
His ranch, the Two Diamond, was fifteen miles southwestward. The Trail Horde
She plodded southwestward doggedly, for perhaps a mile, then halted at something like a distant sound, and peered towards the shadows of the sunset. The Furnace of Gold
Sitka Sound is an indentation about fifteen miles from north to south, with such depths of water that there is no anchorage except south and southwestward of Mount Edgecumbe. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
In a few swift sentences Sanderson had told them what had occurred, and there was no need for words as they fled southwestward. Square Deal Sanderson
It had a declination of eight degrees, and it pointed southwestward to the sign of the Scorpion, which is the sign of Manila. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Like Europe it is a peninsula of Asia, curving southwestward around the Indian Sea. The Negro
From the Flemish Cap, in 44� 06' west longitude and 47� north latitude, marking the easternmost point of this great area, extends the Grand Bank westward and southwestward over about 600 miles of length. Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
Castle is named in an ancient document as being situated a "bowshot southwestward of the church," but the exact site thereof has never been traced. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically
We did not, during the day, perceive any current setting to the southward, but in the course of the night we were drifted four or five leagues to the southwestward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
And meantime, the Prince William syndicate started a parallel railroad to the interior from the next harbor to the southwestward. The Rim of the Desert
From Egypt to the Cape, Livingstone assures us that the mortar and pestle, the long-handled axe, the goatskin bellows, etc., have the same form, size, etc., pointing to a migration southwestward. The Negro
The greatest and most enduring achievement of Frontenac's first term was the exploration of the territory southwestward of the Great Lakes and the planting of French influence there. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4
The other roads led through the wilderness southwestward to the heart of Judah. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History
He then sailed southwestward to find a strait, which was said to lead through America, north of Chesapeake Bay. A Short History of the United States
This delicate rock-loving fern is found in the clefts of dry limestone rocks in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and southwestward. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
The ships were headed southwestward, and about ten o'clock on the night of October 11, Columbus saw a light moving in the distance. A School History of the United States
They poured into coal barges, filling the yawning black holes as Africans used to fill slave-ships, into launches and tugs, and along the roads leading down the river and southwestward toward Ostend. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them
The officers who were not actively engaged stood and stared over the treetops southwestward, and the men digging would stop every now and again to stare in the same direction. The War of the Worlds
From Tampa he marched northward to South Carolina and then marched southwestward to Mobile Bay. A Short History of the United States
Yes, he pointed to the river, and then to the southwestward. Herland
The southwestward motion thus produced between the tropic of Cancer and the equator is the well-known trade-wind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
Looking southwestward from the Henry Mountains the Circle Cliffs are seen. Canyons of the Colorado
The continent of Asia, projecting its huge bulk southwestward between the seas, gradually narrows into the smaller continent of Europe. Early European History
As it was, we but touched the waters of the north and south branches, and striking southwestwards availed ourselves of the American railway lines in Montana for our return. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
After marching southwestward for several days, they saw the distant prairie covered with the pointed buffalo-skin lodges of a great Indian camp. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II
The mountain abutted on the gorge of the New River on the northeast, and stretched also southwestward into the impracticable wilderness about the headwaters of the Guyandotte and the Tug Fork of Sandy. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863
That great land ocean which stretches southwestward from Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri, to the fountains of the great rivers of Texas, has its perils to be guarded against as well as the stormy Atlantic. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"
Then Gustavus turned southwestward, making for the Rhine valley, with the idea of forming a union with the Calvinist princes. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
They drove in Milo's car a half-mile or more to southwestward along the road which fronted the house. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
Mountains, perhaps of Alpine height, once stood about Lake Superior; a lofty range once extended from New England and New Jersey southwestward to Georgia along the Piedmont belt. The Elements of Geology
Some led to the southwestward, where they united with the more central routes described above and eventually reached the Black Sea and the Mediterranean through Asia Minor and Syria. American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600
The Appalachian highland, the second great division of North America, consists of three parallel bands which extend southwestward from Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River to Georgia and Alabama. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America
Suddenly on the 29th of August the armies turned away from New York southwestward across New Jersey, and still only the two leaders knew whither they were bound. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence
During its long idleness it had been borne some distance to southwestward by tide and breeze. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
The news of the cession resulted in a strong southwestward thrust of population, from the neighborhood of Abingdon, in the direction of the Holston Valley. The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
Of course there are guard-parties, sentries duly vigilant, in the big Battery to southeast of Hochkirch,—and along southwestward in that POTENCE, or fore-arm of Four Battalions, which are stationed there. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18
See how the chief mountain systems, the Pacific "cordilleras," trend away from one another, southeastward and southwestward. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America
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