From Anglo-Saxon sources it seems probable that his supremacy reached westwards as far as Holstein.
It corresponds to the ancient commote of Gower (in Welsh Gwyr) which in early Welsh times was grouped with two other commotes stretching westwards to the Towy and so formed part of the principality of Ystrad Tywi.
Huge rudder-less barges, each with a dwarf in the stern struggling at a giant's oar, were borne westwards broadside on like straws upon the surface of a hurrying brook.
III George sailed down Piccadilly westwards on the top of a motor-bus.
What carried him into the Fulham Road and westwards as far as the Workhouse tower and the corner of Alexandra Grove?
Fleeing still westwards from the Yellow Ford, they passed between the lakes of Owel and Ennel, with the men of Ulad still hot in their rear.
The army of Meave fled westwards and southwards towards Connacht, passing the Yellow Ford of Athboy and the Hill of Ward, the place of sacrifice, where the fires on the Day of Spirits summoned the priests and Druids to the offering.
On the morning of the 7th of May, we turned our faces westwards towards the province of Yün-nan, the capital of which I hoped to reach before the end of the month.
About the same time many of them migrated south-westwards to the lands around Rome.
The gradual evolution of the axe and the dagger as they pass westwards and northwards seems to indicate a line of trade, spreading further and further to the north-west as the centuries pass.
I turned westwards and went in search of my horses.
The view westwards from the Béthancourt ridge that day provided one of the most picturesque panoramas of the retreat.
Westwards the line slipped away into the sweep of low ground towards Alfau, the first stoppage on the way to Révonde.
There is a grave in the British cemetery at Haidar Pasha, which, contrary to the usual mode of interment, fronts westwards to be turned towards this side of the city.
He then quitted the precincts of Thessalonica and moved westwards to the city of Heraclea (Monastir), which lies at the foot of the great mountain range that separates Macedonia from Epirus.
A swarm of civil servants flew westwards from Byzantium and lighted on the unhappy country.
Shales and mudstones and impersistent limestones of Bala age come next in order, and, bounding the Vale of Towy on the north, extend as a narrow belt north-westwards towards the Presley hills.
The River Otter rises in Somerset, and runs nearly due south, bearing slightly westwards till it reaches Honiton.
Turning westwards along the coast, Lundy is often to be seen like a faint blue cloud on the horizon, especially when a softening haze hovers over the land--but on a clear day it is very distinct.
Now, gabbling away to himself in the throes of delirium, ever his feverish eyes stared beyond the hospital-walls westwards to Davidsburg.
Westwards from Tongres the German cavalry, in small detached bodies, spread over the country, and soon came in touch with detachments of the Belgian army.
The cavalry advanced westwards to Tongres,[202] which was occupied on Sunday, 9th August.
Continuing the direction of the sea westwards is flat land white with salt, and there white eddies dance, whirling along the dismal shore.
Because the Bombo Chimbo was friendly last time, and did not refuse to march westwards when he was required to do so.
Proceeding westwards along the lane which runs in front of the mausoleums, we look into the monument of the second supreme pontiff and then into that of the third.
We have already mentioned the name Yere-tsangpo, and farther westwards we shall meet with other names.
Another fairly long space of time went by before we distinguished on the plain westwards small black spots and lines, whether wild asses or our own mules we could not determine.
All seem to run westwards and from the watershed, which we have supposed to lie to the east of our route since we crossed the Sela-la.
The guide points south-westwards to the next pass we have to cross.
The Pundit makes the water drain eastwards, but as a matter of fact it runs westwardsand north-westwards to the Ngangtse-tso.
In that year he was baptised by the Archbishop of Rouen, and received from the Karoling King all the lands from "the river of Epte to the sea, and westwards to Brittany," with the hand of the Princess Gisela.
But pushing on still westwards to the left you come to the Boulevard Jeanne d'Arc, and pass the road that leads northwards to a fascinating Cider-tavern in the Champs des Oiseaux.
India and Ceylon, extends westwards into Baluchistan, eastwards into the Malay islands.
They all flow north-westwards and discharge into the Baltic Sea.
On gaining the plateau level a very remarkable scene opens out--a broad green dasht, or plain, slopes away to a sharp line westwards bordered by glittering cliffs and intersected by the white line of the road.
It was his first chance of turning the Malan block, and it led most directly westwards with a trend towards the sea.
However this may be, there is the bed of the stream called Parkan skirting the north of the Taloi range and leading westwards from the Hingol, and we need look no farther for the Parikanoi.
Far away westwards was a huge ascent to a wide-spreading table-land.
Worn out utterly and half-fed they were just holding out with the rest of the Aldebaran's company until they could thrash her far enough to the westwards to square away and run north into better weather on the other side of Cape Horn.
It smote a coppery track across the heaving waters as they sailed westwards into it, but the smoky vapours came rolling up astern, and a low island along which the surf beat white showed up blurred and grey to the south of them.
Under Claudius the Romans had extended their dominion in Britain as far north as the Humber, and westwards to Cornwall and Wales.
This policy gave rest to the country, but favoured the growth of Kurd influence and power, which by 1534 had spread westwards to Angora.
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