One of the mines containing lead and silver, eighteen miles southwest of Galena, was worked by seven men, who could not agree as to a division of the yield.
Occurs in the Southwest where it is confined to the desert and semidesert mountainous areas, rarely being found on the desert floor (Hebard, 1917).
The cliff above the clearing ran nearly from southwest to northeast, so that the place was well situated towards the sun.
Then I had my men carry me down the straight empty street along the southwest flank of the Circus Maximus.
Some distance westward is the Tippecanoe River, a stream flowing southwest into the Wabash, and thence into the Ohio.
About fifty miles southwest of Huntingdon, amid the mountains, is Bedford, noted for its chalybeate and sulphur springs, discovered in 1804, which have long been a favorite resort of Pennsylvanians on account of their healing waters.
The great petroleum fields lie in and near the Pittsburg region, in the basin of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, and extend from New York southwest to West Virginia, and also into Ohio.
The troops were sent as soon as possible, attacked and defeated them in two battles, and thirty-eight of the Indians were executed on one scaffold at Mankato, on the Minnesota River southwest of Minneapolis, in December.
To the eastward a babbling brook goes down into the West Thumb of the Yellowstone Lake, while to the southwest another small creek flows over the boulders towards Shoshone Lake.
It comes from the southwest through the region of the "Black Swamp," a vast district, originally morass and forest, which has been drained to make a most fertile country.
The manufacture of agricultural machinery is represented by two enormous establishments, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company on the southwest side and the Deering Works in the northwestern district.
To the southwest it stretches away to the Potomac as the Cumberland Valley, and to the northeast it spreads across to the Schuylkill as the fertile Lebanon Valley.
Northeast of Tyrone, this valley is called the Bald Eagle Valley, a picturesque and fertile region; and to the southwest it is the Tuckahoe Valley.
Its use began in Pittsburg in 1886, the chief field of supply then being Murrysville, about twenty miles east of the city, while there are also other fields southwest and east of Pittsburg.
You see, from Weissenburg the Germans can either march south upon Strasburg, or southwest upon Metz or Nancy; but to reach this latter place they will have to cross the spurs of the Vosges.
The Barclays' house was on the southwest of the town.
A large green meadow, of a thousand acres, more or less; its southwest side bounded by low mountains, at the base of which oak trees were plenty, but no brush or undergrowth.
We now traveled several days down the bed of a broad ravine, which led to a southwest direction.
The great snow mountain did not seem far off, but to the south and southwest a level or inclined plain extended for a long distance.
The stream, flowing this time towards the southwest shore of Lake Grant, stretched beyond Creek Glycerine, and invaded the plateau of Prospect Heights.
They slanted more towards the southwest and again entered among thick bushes.
The engineer ascertained by consulting his pocket-compass that the direction of the river from the first turn was obviously southwest and northeast, and nearly straight for a length of about three miles.
Towards the north, on the contrary, the bay widened, and a more rounded coast appeared, trending from the southwest to the northeast, and terminating in a slender cape.
We still lacked several days of having been at sea a month when we sighted Madeira, bearing west southwest about ten leagues distant.
Working our way north by west to the Straits of Singapore, and thence on into the China Sea, where we expected to take advantage of the last weeks of the southwest monsoon, we left far astern the low, feverous shores of Sumatra.
Colonel Forde had ascertained that fishermen were in the habit of making their way, across the swamp, to the southwest angle of the fort, that on the sea face opposite to the British frontiers.
As later developed, German reservists from far-off Southwest Africa were at that very moment en route to Europe on suddenly granted "leaves of absence.
On this march we had in our faces a fresh southwest wind that, ever and again, spat snow that stung like needles and searched every opening in our clothing.
Moreover, as our long marches and short sleeps had brought us round to the calendar day, we were facing the sun, and this, with the southwest wind, burned my face so badly that it was little short of agonizing.
So they sailed on, driven by a violent southwest wind, and after four days they reached a land which suited the description of Greenland.
They did not go ashore, but turning the bow from the land, they kept the sea with a fine breeze from the southwest for three days, when a third land was seen.
Hardly had he spoken when far, far out to the southwest two bright flashes leap through the darkness.
Marched, and crossed the mountain [one of the Trout Creek Pass hills] which lay southwest of us; in a distance of seven miles arrived at a small spring.
A fine creek runs by it, descending from the southwest mountains and turning towards the northeast.
We left our course, and struck down to the southwest on a small [tributary of Elm] creek, or rather a puddle of water.
This considerable creek seems to run fromsouthwest to northeast.
After receiving the waters of the St. Antonio and St. Marco it discharges into the southwest end of the bay of St. Bernardo [Matagorda].
He left Fort Chippewyan, skirted the lake to Slave River, then ascended its southwest tributary, Peace River.
The next year he established his second fort, St. Charles, on the southwest shore of the Lake of the Woods.
European Russia is usually divided into four zones or belts, from the character of the soil and the nature of its productions; their general direction is from southwest to northeast.
The positions recently won southwest and east of the Maryampol-Kovno Road were repeatedly attacked yesterday by a strong force of the enemy, which had no success.
Our troops in the southwest maintain their positions as in the beginning, on or near the frontier.
In the evening the Russians everywhere had been driven from their positions near Cieplice, north of Sieniawa, in the Lubsyow-Zuwadowka sector, southwest of Niemerow and west of Sadowa-Wiszenia.
The next observing officer, who arrived some time afterward, stated that to the west and southwest of the German line he could see a broad band of yellow grass and trees which looked as if they had been bleached.
Southwest of Plodock an enemy aeroplane was captured.
On June 12 reports from the Trentino indicated an Italian advance on Rovereto in Tyrol, thirteen miles southwest of Trent, and upon Mori, near by.
Having engaged in a plan for conquering a region in the southwest (1806), Burr was arrested for treason, but was not condemned.
Hooker (November 24) carried the Confederate works on Lookout Mountain, southwest of the town, in a fight often called "the Battle above the Clouds.
Much disappointed, he pushed on eastward, and during two years wandered about over the plains of our great Southwest and probably reached the center of what is now Kansas.
You go through the Southwestand see the country they trailed over--the hot, dry places and the quicksands and cañons and all that.
II Tall Ed had drifted into Sulphur from the Southwest some six months before, and although fairly well known among the ranchers on the Wire Grass, was not a familiar figure in town.
The southwest point of Molokai, on which is a light-house.
By that time, with the exception of the "cops," it seemed as though everybody in Southwest Baltimore was discussing the Ghost.
Root, a native of Michigan, but a resident of the Southwest since 1892.
The Mystic Mid-Region The Deserts of theSouthwest By Arthur J.
It is a common response with children in those regions of the Southwest where rains are so infrequent that umbrellas are rarely used.
Spanish-Indian and Mexican families of the Southwest and also among negroes.
He was grandson of Doctor Thomas Walker of "Castle Hill," Albemarle County who was the first to explore Southwest Virginia and Kentucky.
The course of the glacier at the point at which we reached it is nearly northeast and southwest (magnetic); its surface is almost level and it is free of crevasses save at its sides.
On the southwest this little basin is much corniced, and the whole thing looked as though every severe storm might somewhat change its shape.
On the plateau of Mouinho-da-Moura, southwest of Lisbon, were found numerous polished hatchets, associated with shells of marine mollusca and the bones of mammals belonging to species still extant.
This group evidently originally formed the centre of a series of megalithic monuments, for on the north and southwest some fifty monoliths can still be made out, some still erect, others fallen.
It is therefore impossible, in the present state of our knowledge, to assert that man lived in the southwest of England in the Glacial epoch, to the phenomena of which, if he witnessed them, he must eventually have fallen a victim.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southwest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
