At night-fall, when supper was over and everything at rest, we saw three horsemen going westward on the emigrant road.
Naturally one source of uneasiness was the thought of what our situation would be if, on one of these occasions, we should fail to regain control of these animals, so necessary to us in continuing the westward journey.
Illustration: "Fording the Platte consumed one entire day"] We forded the Platte at a point something like one hundred and fifty miles westward from its confluence with the Missouri.
Hanover Street Church, Boston; president of Lane Theological Seminary; first journey to Cincinnati; removal and westward journey, et seq.
In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred.
They were voyaging across the deserts of the sky, a host of nomads on the march, voyaging high over Ireland, westward bound.
Negotiations with the Bolshevist rulers of Russia, the story runs, brought promises of safe passage westward across central Russia and then northward to Archangel, thence by ship to France.
And sixty miles more or less to the south and eastward on another road to make speed with slow cart transport with orders to intercept an enemy supposed to be preparing to flee westward from the railway.
The intellectual influence of Greece was first felt in pagan times, when Greek ideas and Greek philosophy passed westward to Rome and through Rome permeated the peoples under Roman sway.
He over-ran Greece, captured Constantinople, and was the cause of a great westward exodus of Greek talent and learning.
The sky as he looked westward had again assumed a threatening aspect.
Having gained a sufficient offing, the Ouzel Galley hauled up to the westward and stood along the coast, lofty ridges rising on her starboard hand, while the broad expanse of the Caribbean Sea stretched away on the larboard side.
The boats being hoisted in, the sails were again filled, and the ship stood on to the westward as close to the shore as the master would venture to take her.
It stood under a vast cotton-tree, on an open space near the bank of the river which you see running into the ocean to the westward of this.
Scarcely had the Ouzel Galley passed Bellevue than signs of a coming gale from the westward were perceptible.
Should it hold as it does now she may do it, but if it shifts to the northward or westward she will go ashore as sure as my name is Billhook.
Twelve or fourteen miles to the westward from here," answered the stranger.
If he could not get in, he will have gone on to Montego, or some place to thewestward where he might hope to obtain troops to relieve us.
As long as the wind blew from the westward or south-west, the ship could run on with safety till she had got to the eastward of Cuba, and before that time there was every probability of the hurricane ceasing.
Negro-stealing by Americans continued till 1864, when a brig sailing westward from Africa on that iniquitous errand, was lost at sea--a grim ending to three centuries of incredible and unchristian cruelty.
The British, moving up by long strides north-westward across India, came to a halt at the foot of the Afghan hills fifty years ago; and to this day they have scarcely moved farther.
Here we are at the fountain-head of metaphysical theology, of ideas that have flowed eastward and westward across Asia.
They went westward against the Illinois, and who can find an Illinois village?
They had scoured the whole country to westward until their scalping parties had come into touch with their kinsmen the Sioux, who were lords of the great plains, even as they were of the great forests.
After this they journeyed on and on steadily westward until they reached the summit of a lofty mountain, called the Meeting Hill.
From the dim east the sun begins his journeywestward home.
Then Freyja got into her chariot again, and went westward a long way to the wide, boundless land where impenetrable forests were growing, and undying nature reigned in silence.
At daylight, 1st June, the battle fleet, being then to the southward and westwardof the Horn Reef, turned to the northward in search of enemy vessels and for the purpose of collecting our own cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers.
At Delville Wood and Longueval our lines formed a sharp salient, from which our front ran on the one side westward to Pozières, and on the other southward to Maltz Horn Farm.
They were pouring a hot fire into her and caused her to turn to thewestward of south.
I ordered the First and Third Light-cruiser Squadrons to sweep to the westward and locate the head of the enemy's line, and at 8.
Far away from here, in Lancaster, with another companion, I have crossed the broad valley of the Nashua, over which we had so long looked westward from the Concord hills without seeing it to the blue mountains in the horizon.
The one looks in the sun till his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.
The wrathful kings, on cairns apart, Look forward from behind their shields, And mark the wandering stars, That brilliant westward move.
Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner's compass, but neither he nor his successors have found them.
Following westward on the map, the Caroline Islands and the Ladrones should be studied; Guam, of the latter group, is now a possession of the United States.
Read of the Buccaneers and other adventurers, and have read some chapters from Charles Kingsley's "Westward Ho!
The gorge between these precipices ran east and west and was full of the morning sunlight, which lit to the westward the mass of fallen mountain that closed the descending gorge.
And westward the valley opened until a distant darkness under the sky told where the forests began.
Presently it came up over the horizon again to the south-westward about.
Round the world that day, two hours before the dawn, went the pallid great white star, fading only as it sank westward and the sun mounted above it.
It was barely dawn when the globe took off the next day, and Raf brought the flitter up on its trail, heading westward into the sea wind.
Here the party turned abruptly at a right angle, heading westward once more, passing vast, blank-walled structures which might have been warehouses.
How far it might reach to the westward no eye could tell, for the prospect was bounded by other mountains, and there were plain tokens that a considerable stream ran through the middle of it.
The mountains to the westward loomed up larger and less cloudily as the worn-out teams were urged forward.
On the rim of the ocean the length of some westwardliner blocked itself out against the horizon, and swiftly trailed its smoke out of sight.
I told her my plans for going still westwardto make myself a name, if that might be; and promised to let her have news of me, if and when I might, and in all to be true to her.
Still, I might find old Wulfhere, and send her messages by him before setting out westward again.
Now I had not thought that they would have bided when the beacons were lit; but would have gone out westward with this tide.
It set a fringe of grasses nodding over the edges of three yellow paths ravelled out from a new road that, when it had travelled about a mile westward from the city, gave up being a road for the present.
The third path kept on westward to a dusky tract of pine-woods about two miles from the town.
It was the Tartar and Mongol tribes of the Steppes which sent wave after wave of attack westward towards Europe, under chiefs the greatest of whom was Gengis Khan.
Before then there had been a significant proof of America's gaze turning westward by the appointment in 1844 of Mr Caleb Cushing as the United States Ambassador to the Court of China.
Her natural destiny waswestward and southward rather than eastward, though it was natural that she should slowly permeate the Siberian region.
He directed them to go to the front, to the right, and to the left, and give orders that all should move to the westward a short distance, far enough to reach high timber.
After an hour spent thus, it was thought advisable to drive on westward and examine a country which, in their busy farm-life, had never been viewed, save at a distance.
Our train had only traveled a few days' drive westwardfrom the Missouri, when we came to the Stone Corral on the bank of the Cottonwood.
For the space of eleven days the cavalcade fared westward through the trackless wastes, the sky a brazen lake of fire, the plains a tawny, dizzy sea that seemed to heave with endless waves of sand.
From day to day the scene was one of turbulence and haste, a jumble of groaning carts and provision trains, of swiftly formed battalions passing westward on the run, to join the vanguard and be lost in a cloud of thick, low-hanging dust.
As it was, he sat motionless as a statue in his saddle, and never looked westward to where the tricolors of the flagstaff drooped above the head of Venetia Corona.
Then he mounted himself; and with the head of his lost comrade borne up upon his arm, and rested gently on his breast, he rode westward over the great plain to where his mission lay.
We then diverged to the westward through heavy jungle, and the remainder of our march consisted of uninteresting dense jungle, water- courses, and excessively low places.
These spaces both lead westward to that corner of the river into which the Deo- panee falls.
The most beautiful valley is at Maamloo, a village to the Westward of Churra, and about five miles distant.
The view to the westward in particular was pretty, embracing a fine well- wooded undulated valley, with several villages and a stream of some size.
In the meantime, the sunset was nigh over; and the long shadows of the walls, bulwarks, and arches, were projecting from the westward in deeper and blacker shade.
The setting sun cast his gleams along a moorland country, which to the westward broke into larger swells, terminating in the mountains called the Larger and Lesser Cairntable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "westward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
