But a secondary branch was conducted eastwards to the Rivers T'ah and Tsi (now, 1908, the Yellow River).
Emperor's flight eastwards in 771, the utmost activity prevailed between state and state within the narrow area to which, as we have seen, the federated Chinese empire was confined.
Emperor, went to meet that monarch's fugitive successor, and escorted him eastwards to his new capital.
Also this place seemeth to haue a maruellous great indraft, and draweth vnto it most of the drift yce, and other things which doe fleete in the Sea, either to the North or Eastwards of the same, as by good experience we haue found.
I therefore departing, because I could not otherwise chuse, sayled for the space of twenty dayes to the Eastwardswithout sight of any land: then turning my course towards the Souteast, in 5.
Such is the value of her ground that London City proper has necessarily to be content with minute oases, and travelling eastwards one must go a long way before one comes to a real expanse comparable with the pleasures of the west.
These agricultural Scythians occupy the region which extends Eastwards for a distance of three days' journey, 24 reaching to a river which is called Panticapes, and Northwards for a distance of eleven days' sail up the Borysthenes.
At ten hours the plain opens still wider, and declines gently eastwards to the sea.
From Bair eastwards the Wady and its vicinity are called the district of Hudrush [Arabic]; it is without water, with the exception of the rain water which collects in the low grounds.
On the night of July 1st he fled from Haarlem, and travelled swiftly and secretly eastwards until he reached Teplitz, in Bohemia.
As will be seen by the accompanying map, the village of Marengo lies in the plain that stretches eastwards from the banks of the River Bormida towards the hilly country of Stradella.
Pent up in the choked streets of Vittoria, torn by cannon-shot from the English lines, the wreckage of its three armies for a time surged helplessly to and fro, and then broke away eastwards towards Pamplona.
The Emperors Alexander and Francis fled eastwards into the night.
For that plan was now his dominant aim, while the repulse of Blücher was chiefly of importance because it would enable him to stretch a hand eastwards to his beleaguered garrisons.
Already he had urged on the march of Davoust, who was to circle round from the north, and the advance of Jerome Bonaparte's Westphalians, who were bidden to hurry on eastwards from the town of Grodno on the Upper Niemen.
With the fall of Constantinople the stream of learning, driven eastwards in the first period of the Middle Ages, set westward again.
Her eyes travelledeastwards along the ridge and stopped at the clump of Bishop's Ring which marks the crest of Duncton Hill, and the dark fold below where the trees flow down to Graffham.
Eastwards the cape slopes inland at a gentler angle with an undercliff, a narrow plateau, and behind the plateau mountain walls.
Eastwards from London Bridge the river raced to the ocean.
After sunset, it grew colder, the wind coming from the eastwards up the open reach of the river; and so, what with my wet things and standing so long on the forecastle I began to shiver.
Two or three of us, however, thought we might sum up the energy to march eastwards along the road in the hope of finding a boat in the bay of Ayasch.
At the first sign of dawn they had marched eastwardsfor a quarter of an hour, and then had to give it up as a bad job, having failed to pick up their bearings.
And before 11 o'clock we had received another urgent telegram telling us to fall in at once and march eastwards through Bailleul.
The Norfolks were on the left, at the station, and eastwardsdown the line.
Nor did Austria, though during these years her old ambition to expand south-eastwards at the expense of Turkey and the Balkan peoples revived under German encouragement.
Among the other powers which participated in the great partition, Russia continued her pressure in two of the three directions which she had earlier followed-south-eastwards in Central Asia, eastwards towards China.
Further eastwards the irrigation is supplied by the Kirk Bulakh, a stream of which the name signifies forty springs, and which has its sources at no great distance from Erivan.
From invisible limits in the western distance issues the looping thread of the Araxes, and, skirting the base of the Ararat fabric, bends slowly south-eastwards and disappears.
Just as the vapours gather thickest where the mountains are most lofty, at the south-eastern angle of the sea, so the vegetation increases in luxuriance and variety the further eastwards we proceed on our course.
It is seen for some distance following at the base of a low ridge which culminates further eastwards in the towering parapet behind the town.
Our road followed its course, taking an abrupt bend eastwards and still faithful to the left bank.
It remains to follow the extension of the mountains of the northern border during their progress eastwards from the Borjom gorge.
Probably the Kuenlun range carries over the inner series of western Asia, extending eastwards from the Pamirs and serving as a buttress to the immensely elevated plateau of Tibet.
Indeed, even along this remote seaboard the flowing tide of Western civilisation is surely setting eastwards again.
The line may be taken south-eastwards along the marginal ridge of the Karadagh to the water-parting between the basin of the Araxes on the one side and that of Lake Urmi on the other.
Further eastwards along the summit of the ridge you see the ruins of the old Armenian fortress, with the remains of a wall rising towards it from the foot of the cliff.
He turned his horse's headeastwards and touched her gently to a trot.
From the land of Muscovy, a ship may sail eastwards to Tartary, at the farthest extremity of which China is situated.
From thence he sailed eastwards to Cape Garcias a Dios, and discovered the province and river of Veragua, the Rio Grande, and others, which the Indians call Hienra.
The first meridian is placed at the island of Ferro, and the degrees of longitude are counted from thence eastwards all round the world, so that Ferro is in long.
Here we find that the rain is distributed throughout the year, and is usually abundant, though it decreases in passing eastwards from the seaboard.
From it the table-land slopes gently down to the northward towards the main valley of the Hadhramout, and eastwards towards the Wadi Adim.
I struck across country eastwards to see the promised land, and on the way to the near ridge turned and stared back at Bapaume in the glow of the sunset.
They were not passionate against the enemy, only contemptuous of him, and of his rule of them.
Where the dales widen out towards the fat plains of the Vale of York, quickset hedges intermingle with the gaunt stone, and as one gets further eastwards the green hedge becomes triumphant.
Holub, "we started eastwards in the hope of catching the herd at their drinking-place.
Forests on the north bank of the Amazons, opposite Olivenca, not passing eastwards of Ica on the Ica river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eastwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
