The helm was, therefore, shifted at the proper moment, and the ship swerved away in a south-easterly direction, making as though for the middle of the lower bay.
Starting from the western gate, or gate of El-Mihrab, you go in an easterly direction by a broad street, till you come to the great Church of the Resurrection, called by Mohammedans Comame.
Our way lay over the fertile and cultivated plain at the foot of the Jebel Haouran, in a north-easterly direction.
Oerimy [Arabic], the southernmost point of Djebel Shaehsabou, which turns off here towards the east, and continues for about three hours in an easterly direction.
From this point the land trended back in an easterly direction, and we held east and northeast in the open water between it and the ice.
Twelve seconds later flaming rays shot from the zenith in an easterly direction.
The last seen of her was that she was travelling slowly in a south-easterly direction.
The Zeppelins emerged from their sheds and flew--not westwards to meet the threatened attack, but in a south-easterly direction.
Accordingly TB 445 made off in a north-easterly direction, the sub.
The Niger, flowing to the eastward, could not possibly have the Bight of Benin for its estuary, nor is it laid down in any of the recent maps as having an easterly direction.
Their course from Zalee was in a south-easterly direction, and shortly after leaving the town, they came to a fine extensive plain, on which stood a few venerable and magnificent trees.
After putting ample brakes on the sledge-runners, we started off downhill in a south-easterly direction.
Continuing in a north-easterly direction, we came to another big room, called the Crystal Palace, in which all the ski and sledging cases were stored.
This having been resolved on, all marched in an easterly direction to an encampment situated on the borders of the same stream, and under a range of hills called 'Appleykaik.
We had left the canyon or valley of the river Teckel a few miles east, from which point it appeared to give a sharp turn in an easterly direction.
Flowing in a south-easterly direction, by Crewkerne and the Dorsetshire border, its basin occupies that portion of the Bridgwater Level lying between the Mendips and the Quantock Hills.
Taking next a south-easterly direction, it passes through Prestwich, and after a bend to the north of Pendleton it runs into Manchester.
It rises in the Inkpen district and flows in an easterly direction, forming, as we have seen, the county boundary for a considerable distance.
It is now included in the former county, and the Berkshire boundary continues its easterly direction on or near the Roman road until it reaches the stream Whitewater close to its junction with the Blackwater.
Facing Mount Khoc, other mountains rise abruptly from the right bank, and then extend in an easterly direction.
From Kone-Sane to Vien-Tiane is eight good days' journey in a north-easterly direction.
Mgi-Poukham, inhabited by the Soues, is six days' journey from Korat in a south-easterly direction.
From Bane-Thienne to Nong Khane you go in an easterly direction.
An hour afterwards we started in an Easterly direction.
For three hours we travelled in a south-easterly direction upon a hard plain and a sandy flat, on which several waters from the highlands find a passage to the sea westward.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "easterly direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
