At the same time the company defending the north-west and western edges of Fontaine were forced back by weight of numbers, first on to the Cambrai road, and then into a sunken road running into the village at its south-western corner.
The defences of the village of Cantaing were also considerably strengthened by a well-traversed trench encircling its south-western corner.
He could do no more than occupy the trench at the south-western corner of the village.
The only monuments of the central group remaining to be mentioned are those of Chunhuhu, in the extreme south-western corner of the rectangle.
At the south-western corner an opening affords a means of egress near the surface of the ground; but this, as well as the windows mentioned, may be accidental or of modern origin and have formed no part of the original plan.
Brandon Hill rises over the ocean to the height of 3,127 feet at the north-western corner of the barony of Corcaguiny to the south of the Bay of Tralee.
Between stretches the Weald, a strip of which, except in that south-western corner filled by the broadened sand heights, belongs to Surrey and makes its southern zone of fresh features.
There are watercourses in their north-western corner, and through the western half thereof, which become tributaries to the Rio Grande del Norte.
The edge of the mesilla rounds into the north-western corner of the latter, almost closing up with it; the slope is very steep and covered with huge rocks, broken and tumbled down along the declivity.
The western side is, generally, in a better state of preservation than the eastern, especially the north-western corner.
The extreme south-western corner, near the mouth of the Uruguay River, is alluvial.
Word was sent to different chiefs in the country districts, and on the night of the 19th of April thirty-three adventurers, with Lavalleja at their head, landed on the shore of the river in the extreme south-western corner of the country.
It is probable, although not certain, that the Jesuits on the Upper Uruguay established some villages of peaceable Indians in the north-western corner of Uruguay proper, in the middle of the seventeenth century.
For more than a year thereafter the allies lay motionless in their camps in the south-western corner of Paraguay, while the cholera carried off thousands.
It stood within the south-western corner of the town.
As at Pevensey and Porchester, a Norman castle was ingeniously constructed within this castrum by placing the mound towards the north-western corner.
At the south-western corner, on the right of the approach to the old entrance, a bastion of early masonry was encased in a rectangular projection which formed a base for the temple of Nike.
The Pelasgic wall enclosed the spring Clepsydra, beneath the north-western corner of the Acropolis, which furnished a water-supply to the defenders of the fortress.
And if this be not its origin, how comes it that we find it in the most north-western corner of Africa?
The illustration below represents our of these in the valley of the Mancos, in the south-western corner of Colorado.
For himself, he landed upon the mole, and pitching his tent near the south-western corner, there established himself.
It will be said that I take a gloomy view of the south-western corner of China; and I am indeed sorry, for the sake of our own commerce, that I cannot present a brighter picture.
In the south-western corner of the building there is a mural tablet, in memory of the late Mrs. Caroline Walsh, who gave 50 pounds towards the erection of the chapel.
From the south-western corner a grand tower rises to a height of 210 ft.
His dominions not only included the whole of Spain except its north-western corner, but also Aquitaine and the greater part of Provence.
These are only hints of rambles in this hilly and thickly-wooded north-western corner, which one is tempted to proclaim as the bouquet of the county’s scenery.
Probably the Spartan mastery of the south-western corner of the Peloponnesus was terminated by this expedition.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "western corner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
