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Example sentences for "eastwardly"

Lexicographically close words:
eastermost; eastern; easternmost; easting; eastward; eastwards; easy; easygoing; eat; eatable
  1. For two days they kept on in an eastwardly direction, against wintry blasts and occasional storms.

  2. It was a simultaneous attack on that portion of the line extending over two hundred miles from Julesburg eastwardly to Liberty Farm, at the head of the Little Blue River.

  3. If I were bidden go seek him, I would search well the hamlets and villages on the slopes of the mountains of Judea and Galilee falling eastwardly into the valley of the Jordan.

  4. Eastwardly there was a division wall broken by another passage-way in all respects like the first one.

  5. The tract conveyed embraced four necks of land eastwardly from the first creek that empties into Bohemia River, and extended at the north or northeast to near the old St. Augustine or Manor Church.

  6. Sandy Hook is low, and stretches out about three miles eastwardly from Rentselaer's Hook, and makes the channel.

  7. The flood tide pulls to the shoals, and the ebb tide on the contrary sets eastwardly to the sea.

  8. From Orange Court-House there are two nearly parallel roads running eastwardly to Fredericksburg.

  9. He sent four companies as skirmishers across the ravine to the south of his camp, which discharges eastwardly into Lick Creek.

  10. A little eastwardly of Corinth, near Eastport, was a considerable railroad bridge over Bear Creek.

  11. In the more eastwardly prairie region fires have done much to prevent the spread of the native groves, and throughout the whole woodless plains the pastorage of the buffalo alone would suffice to prevent a forest growth.

  12. The second division, of equal magnitude, under Olid, was to be posted at Cojohuacan, so as to command the causeways that led eastwardly into the city.

  13. When near the Pacific Coast, the many men and women who have been passengers on the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, and sail eastwardly over Southern California.

  14. Afterwards turning eastwardly they invaded the Roman Provincia in southern Gaul, and through their victories threatened the great Republic.

  15. The Celtae, whose western boundary was the ocean, reached from the Garonne as far north as the Seine, and eastwardly across the centre of Gaul to the head waters of the Rhine.

  16. This is the shabby remnant of Diane's and of Lamoignon's extensive gardens, which once stretched to those of the Hotel de La Force on the south, and eastwardly to Rue Sevigne.

  17. Eastwardly from Rue Caumartin, the northern side of Boulevard des Capucines has trampled out nearly the whole of the old street.

  18. Ascertaining that the Chief's opposition came from Indians living eastwardly of Heywood Sound, the undersigned determined to modify the propositions of the Government, so as to meet in some degree the objections from that quarter.

  19. It bounds eastwardly on the State of Yucatan; south on Chiapas and Oajaca; west on Vera Cruz, and northwardly on the Gulf of Mexico.

  20. South of these high plains, however, and some distance in the interior, the land is varied by a succession of mountains, hills and vallies, which gradually slope eastwardly until they are lost in the flats and sands of the sea coast.

  21. Sonora bounds eastwardly on Chihuahua and New Mexico; southwardly on Sinaloa; and westwardly on the Gulf of California for 238 leagues between the mouths of the Mayo and the Colorado.

  22. The valleys parallel with the coast range, as well as those which extend eastwardly in all directions among the hills towards the great plain of the Sacramento, are of unsurpassed fertility.

  23. With rough adieus the party strike out eastwardly toward the San Joaquin.

  24. Winding out of the meadows of the Alameda, eastwardly over the Coast Range defiles, the train advances.

  25. This division is made by a range of hilly country, to be hereafter particularly described, running from near the north-western angle of the Gulf of Mexico north-eastwardly to Lake Superior.

  26. To the northward the Androscoggin River, flowing from the flanks of the White Mountains, sweeps eastwardly across the State, and then turns southward to unite its current with the Kennebec in Merry Meeting Bay.

  27. The Negracka rises within fifty or sixty miles of the mountains, and after meandering eastwardly between four and five hundred miles, unites with the Arkansa at the distance of about nine hundred miles from the mouth of the latter.

  28. They unite about four hundred miles westward from the mouth of the Platte, having meandered about the same distance eastwardly from the mountains.

  29. Thence it flows south-eastwardly to the Gulf of Mexico.

  30. The rivers which flow eastwardly from the Sierra, form lakes whose only means of exhaustion is by evaporation.

  31. Eastwardly they go forth at Snakeland (Akhokink), and they went away earnestly grieving.

  32. Later in the month, he began to incline eastwardly from the mountains, and finally concentrated his forces in the neighborhood of Warrenton, Virginia.


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