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Example sentences for "east and"

  • All commanding points two or three miles to the south, south-east and south-west were strongly fortified.

  • He was then to go east and, if possible, release our prisoners about Andersonville.

  • A large force of infantry was kept at work all the time in breaking up the Mobile & Ohio Railroad south and north; also the Jackson & Selma Railroad, east and west.

  • But the enemy still holds the river from Vicksburg to Baton Rouge, navigating it with his boats, and the possession of it enables him to connect his communications and routes of supply, east and west.

  • In keeping with the command of the vision, several copies of the New Testament and one complete Bible were also on view when the writer of the article in East and West visited the sanctuary in 1903.

  • The third movement is that of the Chet Ramis, or sect of Chet Ram, whose strange history may be found in East and West for July 1905.

  • When, however, he married Agnes Heriot, he was given a parish of his own on the borders of East and West, where he had been ever since, even after her death had nearly killed him.

  • In this manner he succeeded by the November of this year in confining the active forces of the enemy to the extreme north-east and to the south-west of the peninsula.

  • Although nominally in command of a division, Gatacre's troops were continually drafted off to east and to west, so that it was seldom that he had more than a brigade under his orders.

  • There was a thunder-storm to the south-east and east on the 10th December.

  • The creek came from north and north-east and flowed to the south-west, to join the Condamine.

  • We travelled during the day in a westerly direction over a level country, partly covered with reeds and fat-hen, and came to a broad sandy creek, which turned to the south-east and south.

  • At 4 came half a mile south-east and by south over thickly-wooded land and overtook our party where they had formed their encampment.

  • At 11 came south-east and by east over rich level land, grassed with herbage and wooded with box and bauhinia.

  • Number 14 Camp, situated on the right bank of the Flinders River at a point about seven miles south-east and by south from Fort Bowen.

  • At dark made one mile east-south-east and encamped at Pratt Creek.

  • Her power and glory shone out like the morning above the world’s horizons, and the splendor of her learning cast its rays over East and West.

  • Here the encircling wall is defended by two square Burj, to the north-east and to the northwest, flanking what is probably the main entrance.

  • The walls still standing form a long room running north-south; and the two adjoining closets set off to the north-east and south-east.

  • The houses climb up a narrow combe down which tumbles a bright stream from the side of Hawksdown, the hill which rises to the north-east and is crowned by an ancient encampment.

  • East and west of these summits an arbitrary line drawn southwards to the coast encloses with more or less exactitude the older Wessex.

  • Benninschein sold them simultaneously to East and West; then he died, luckily for him.

  • The idea that the grave should be east and west I imagine they learnt from the Spaniards, as the captain of one of their ships was buried at Oeitepeha in 1774.

  • We steered to the south-south-east and on the 23rd at two o'clock in the morning we discovered the coast of Tierra del Fuego bearing south-east.

  • But on the morning of the 31st the wind came to the north-north-east and made us entertain great hopes that we should be able to accomplish our passage round the Cape without much difficulty.

  • Sabre bicycled in daily to Fortune, East and Sabre's, and the daily ride to and fro had become a curious pleasure to him.

  • Fortune, East and Sabre, Ecclesiastical and Scholastic Furnishers and Designers, had in Tidborough what is called, in business and professional circles, a good address.

  • Similarly in the scholastic line, anything from a birch rod to a desk--Fortune, East and Sabre, by return and the best.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    copied from; east and; east corner; east direction; east from; east half; east longitude; east monsoon; east part; east passage; east trades; east window; easterly wind; eastern coast; eastern counties; eastern part; eggs beaten; great quantity; high state; make three; more effectual; own eyes; quick gesture; road leading; then living; warm climate