How To Use Southward In A Sentence
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On Tuesday the frontal rain in the north is likely to slide southwards, drawing down colder air for a time over northern and eastern parts.
Times, Sunday Times
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After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
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But the high pressure that delivered the spring weather is slipping southwards and the jet stream has reappeared over the UK.
Times, Sunday Times
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The heavy-coated and mufflered man was walking quickly southward; he waved his umbrella to a passing cab, which, however, did not pull up.
The Town Traveller
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A comparison of Colombian tobacco imports with US tobacco exports reveals just how many contraband cigarettes were being shipped southward from the United States.
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After a period of time in Ternate, she left and sailed southward of the Celebes where they stopped at an island and graved the ship for 26 days.
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As long as the Germans held Caen, they denied access to the plain stretching southwards for just over 30 km.
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The surge travelled southwards along the coast.
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Once again, the Americans had essentially reassumed control of the airfield by operating the air traffic control system that extended southward from Thule to Newfoundland.
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As the VC were driven southward, they moved toward the crow's-foot in Kim Son valley.
Chickenhawk
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The streets are busy, with small groups heading steadily southwards towards the nightclub.
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The light is of the 4th order dioptric, showing a red arc of 270° to seaward, and a white arc of 90°, visible inside the breakwater and to the southward towards Alligator Creek.
Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91
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Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home, she headed west.
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George and Harry accompanied the teams, and when they left the main column the forest was skirted in their trip southwardly.
The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
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As the Arctic air tightened its grip, the belt of snow pushed southwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other piece is floating southwards in a nonchalant manner.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is a shale-hosted flint, passing northward into marine shale and southward into marine clay ironstone.
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Southward the land drops away to a vast plain suitable for livestock and plantation farming.
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Huge schools of black and silver mullet migrate southwards along the coast in the autumn, almost always within casting distance, accompanied by an army of predators including tarpon, sharks, jacks, barracudas and snook.
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Deccan, which make up the southern half of the Empire; the great plain which stretches southward from the Himalayas and constitutes what was formerly known as Hindustan; and a three-sided tableland which lies between, in the center of the empire, and is drained by a thousand rivers, which carry the water off as fast as it falls and leave but little to refresh the earth.
Modern India
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Beginning in Early Miocene time, southward extrusion of the Greater Himalayan Slab has had a profound influence on the geological and geomorphological evolution of the Himalaya.
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The fighting centred on the Gojam and Gondar regions as rebel forces moved southwards towards the capital.
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Finding we could not weather the reef, and that _it was too late had it been in our power to give any assistance_; and still fearing that we might be embayed or entangled by the supposed chain or patches; all therefore that remained for us to do was either by dint of carrying sail to weather the reef to the southward, (meaning the Cato's Bank,) or, if failing in that, to push to leeward and endeavour to find a passage through the _patches of reef_ to the northward.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
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Halted in its southward move by the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, Burmese encountered the Mon language.
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The exception to this is the narrow Isthmus of Tehuantepec where fierce northerly winds carry hot moist air southward from the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mexican Climate - A Thumbnail Guide
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In the far north-west, the splinter-like peninsula of Lower California, with its high sierras, is a southward extension of the Sierra Nevada.
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From this Koubba, the palm plantations extend southward and form a kind of festoon with the Keteya group, which is protected on the south-west by a hill of white sand.
The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria
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At the harbour now known as Santiago de Cuba, where he anchored on May 2nd, he had what seemed like authentic information of a great island to the southward which was alleged to be the source of all the gold.
Christopher Columbus
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I thought they had come to attack us, but they were a _caffila_ of merchantmen bound for Cambaya; as there comes every year a similar fleet from Goa, Chaul, and other places to the southwards, for Cambaya, whence they bring the greatest part of the loading which is carried by the caracks and galleons to Portugal.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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This terrace is carefully organized to provide welcoming porches on the northern side, and to give southward views of the dramatic landscape over the games field.
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As she turned her gaze southward she was suddenly aware of three figures clearly tricked out against the grey sky above the further fell: their silhouettes showed like midges dapped against the window by a boy, and
Border Ghost Stories
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While the rescue was in progress, further reinforcements headed southwards.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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Munday the 14. of Iune, the wind blew so harde out of the North, that wee could not beare our topsailes with our forecourse which sailed South, the sunne was southward we had Port a Porte of vs, being in 41. degrees and 20 minuts.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Northward, they prefer clear, weedy, glacial lakes - southward, they prefer weedy bayous.
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A southward depression of the treeline in favour of wet heaths, bogs and wetland tundra communities is also observed in northern oceanic environments.
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I ended up sitting reading it on the long journey southwards to London, with my highlighter and red pencil, marking the errors in the book as I read.
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There are plenty of council flats in long blocks, some old and some new but almost all with satellite dishes pointing southwards.
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Rather than retrace our steps, we continued southwards, traversing the mountain down to a pass called Bwlch Tryfan.
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The university wanted to put the $125 million, 330,000-square-foot building at the edge of campus, where it would help move the college southward and further gentrify the area.
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We walked in a southward direction.
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It allowed icy blasts of air to escape from the Arctic and make their way southwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The entry into loch Crinan is wide, and would admit of vefsels sailing out of it almost with any wind j and vefsels going southward cr northward with a fair wind, would not suffer any retardment by being obliged to alter th'iir course.
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From Calais the general led his forces on a long march southwards.
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From southwards the Sun shone on the stony ground; then grew green grass in fertile soil.
Phoenix From the Flame
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A blast of Arctic air, which will push southwards at the beginning of the week, is being blamed for the cold snap.
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We then tranship the goods southwards to Felixstowe and Southampton.
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They watched with mounting concern as swarms of locusts began to sweep southwards from breeding grounds in North Africa.
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In NZ we might expect, for example, southward invasion by weeds presently limited by temperature.
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The top of the peak has a slightly slanting surface of perhaps twenty square yards, very irregular in outline; -- southwardly the morne pitches sheer into a frightful chasm, between the converging of two of those long corrugated ridges already described as buttressing the volcano on all sides.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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He drove along the M6 to the Scottish border then headed southwards.
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The sail sped southward, disappearing at times as it descended into the trough of the huge Atlantic waves, but advancing all the time towards the entrance of Grenville Channel.
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On the next day Union troops dug in on those hills and on Cemetery Ridge, running two miles southward to Little Round Top.
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Then, with a final wave, Conan spurred the horse southward and rode off through the pouring rain and the lightning-litten dark down the long road to Argos and the sea.
Conan Of The Isles
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In the aftermath of the landing, some 180,000 Greek Cypriot refugees fled southward from the Turkish-held region.
1960, Aug. 16
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Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes).
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
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The plume of smoke has reached jet flying altitude and plans have been made for planes flying through Icelandic air control space to fly southwardly tonight, said Hjordis Gudmundsdottir, the spokeswoman for Isavia.
Scientists: Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano erupting
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The question of what we were to do in the immediate future was settled for us; for four days out of the six during which we were at One Ton the weather made travelling southwards, that is against the wind, either entirely impossible or such that the chance of seeing another party at any distance was nil.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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The "offscourings" of London, which the companies carried rather more to the southward than the northward with us, were hardly scoured off in
London Films
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Diana's mom's house is situated in a small town, one of dozens of bedroom communities spreading endlessly one after another northward from the center of Willmington, Delaware, to meet their counterparts marching southward from Philadelphia.
Plenty too much everything
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A little to the southward of this town, and to the east of the port, is Tor Bay, of which I know nothing proper to my observation, more than that it is a very good road for ships, though sometimes
From London to Land's End
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Our common house-wren is a finer singer than the European bird; but he flies far to the southward, in winter, and sings Spanish in Mexico and South America.
Rural Hours
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Similarly the Indians round the upper Ohio and thence southward often called the backwoodsmen "Virginians.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
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The sacristy, chapter-house, fratery, and other apartments stretch from the transept southwards along the east side; above these, on the upper floor, were the dormitories, entering by an open staircase from the south transept.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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The road to South Port was a long one however, stretching southwards for about 50 miles.
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The seas were calm and the breeze blowing steadily southward seemed to lessen.
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And if you be disposed to goe through the Sound to the Southwards, keepe the Northwest shoare aboorde, for on the Island side after you be shotte so far in as the crosse, it is a shoale of rockes halfe the sound ouer: which rockes do last vnto the Southerly part of the great Island, and rather to the Southwards.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Adult Western Sandpipers molt flight feathers following each southward migration, and then perform northward and southward migration on those feathers.
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I returned from the hill but little wiser than I went, except that I had observed the strata dipping southward, and that we might, therefore, still look for their synclinal line to the northward; and beyond that, for the heads of other rivers.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Some of the cols must indeed mark formerly active valleys that led westwards and southwards out of the basin prior to active infill, but we have found no evidence that Panorama gorge was shut off by footwall uplift during fault propagation.
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My plan was to enter, at some convenient point in the State of Sonora, Mexico, that great and mysterious mountain range called the Sierra Madre, cross it to the famous ruins of Casas Grandes in the State of Chihuahua, and then to explore the range southward as extensively as my means would permit.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
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Economists have discovered the renaissance in Manchester and other northern cities has reversed the traditional southward trend of the migrating workforce.
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This is kind of skirting, maybe the Turner Field area on southward where the greatest threat of this storm is right now.
CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008
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Their southward imbrication within the Kudi gneisses, the similar lithology and occurrence close to the Buziwan ultrabasic rocks near Kudi village may indicate they could have been part of Buziwan ophiolite.
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Other southern Avalon Irish initially entered through the port of St. John's, attracted by its increasing commercial activity and potential for employment, ultimately wending their way southwards from the town (mirroring a similar diaspora northwards into Conception Bay).
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Then haue you a second Nauigation of his performance to the South shore of the foresayd Caspian sea, together with his landing at Derbent, his arriuall at Shabran, his proceeding vnto Shamaky, the great curtesie vouchsafed on him by Obdolowcan king of Hircan, his iourney after of 30. dayes Southward, by Yauate, Ardouil, and other townes and cities to Casben, being as then the seate imperiall of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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As the VC were driven southward, they moved toward the crow's-foot in Kim Son valley.
Chickenhawk
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Again frustrated, he turned southwards, meaning to cross above the Rosaires Cataract, which was without doubt impassable to steamers.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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The Spring River forms in Howell County of southcentral Missouri just a few miles south of the Eleven Point River and near the Mark Twain National Forest, then flows southward into Arkansas at Mammoth Springs in Fulton County.
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Although the Portuguese advance southwards was excruciatingly slow, once the cape had been rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 progress in the Indian Ocean was nothing short of spectacular.
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Starting southward from the cross-roads, the character of the country underwent so sudden a transformation that it looked as if man, having contended here unsuccessfully with nature, had signed an ignominious truce beneath the crumbling gateposts of the turnpike.
The Miller of Old Church
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I would avoid all reflection, or any thing that may tend to give umbrage; but there is in this army from the southward a number called riflemen, who are as indifferent men as I ever served with.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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A slightly later phase of deglaciation occurred when the ice margin retreated north into St. George's Channel, forming the raised ice contact delta at the Screen Hills, which prograded southwards into high relative sea level.
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Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois.
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From southwards the Sun shone on the stony ground; then grew green grass in fertile soil.
Phoenix From the Flame
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A general, well-known trend of North American migration is that birds fly in a northward direction in the spring and a southward direction in the fall.
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The forest research area extends southward from the fen and is better drained because of a gradient caused by the rise onto a kame terrace (Twin Lakes in Fig.
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Leaving the Dalles, Frémont followed up the Des Chutes River to its headwaters in southeastern Oregon, thence he crossed over the divide to the waters of the Klamath, which he followed southward to what is known as Klamath Marsh.
The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
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Egyptian scribes had agreed, in the course of the long march southwards, on the stipulations to be signed; the treaty itself was to be drawn up after the articles had been carefully considered, and to be signed in the city of Rameses called Tanis -- or, by the numerous settlers in its neighborhood, Zoan.
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete
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The Euphrates River originates, like the Tigris, in the mountains of eastern Turkey; it then flows southward through Syria and Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
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The Telemaque shoal, which is supposed to exist somewhere to the southward of the Cape, but whose situation has never been ascertained, had just before been the subject of their conversation.
The King's Own
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The difficult spot, which the Dutch settlers called a squint path, was passed, and the waggon gained the top of the height, when at some distance a broad river was seen flowing to the southward.
Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand
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The southern Atlantic and Caribbean areas (including the Yucatan peninsula) are heavily influenced by periodic weather fronts that race southward from the US.
The Mexican Climate - A Thumbnail Guide
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In the beginning of 1832 he again proceeded southwardly, and on the fourth of February was seen to the southeast.
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Sea-ice production in the source region in winter is enhanced within a polynya (the North Water) formed by the persistent southward drift of ice.
Marine Arctic
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There's a feeling that the city is ready to face up to these challenges and to halt the southward drift of its most energetic citizens.
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Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
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Northbound buses start their trips at Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, then proceed: northward along Keele Street; and then westward along Steeles Avenue West to Founders Road, resuming their regular route ** westward along Steeles., from 9: 45 a.m. until 12: 15 p.m., eastbound buses operate along their regular route to Ian Macdonald Boulevard and The Chimneystack Road, then detour: eastward along The Chimneystack; southward along Keele Street; eastward along Canartic Drive; and then northward* along Petrolia Road to Steeles Avenue West, resuming their regular route ** eastward along Steeles.
Transit Toronto - Weblog
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Kafir tribes from the north-east were chased southward into the mountain country now called Basutoland, most of which had been previously inhabited only by Bushmen, and here the Basuto kingdom was built up out of fugitive clans, by the famous chief Moshesh, between 1820 and 1840.
Impressions of South Africa
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The currents are driven by a “conveyor belt” mechanism, known as the meridional overturning circulation, that depends on salinity to keep it running: as water from the warm Gulf moves northward, it evaporates moisture to the colder atmosphere, which increases the ocean water salinity and thus its density; the denser water sinks and flows back southward, where the cycle begins anew.
Where have all the glass eels gone? Nobody knows.
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Surely all our victories by sea and land might warrant our stipulating for so much, in place of huggermuggering with doubtful ill -- defined treaties, specifying that you Johnny Crapeau, and you Jack Spaniard, shall steal men, and deal in human flesh, in such and such a degree of latitude only, while, if you pick up one single slave a league to the northward or southward of the prescribed line of coast, then we shall blow you out of the water wherever we meet you.
Tom Cringle's Log
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My conductor, however, informed me, that to get through this deep and important stream, and to clear all its tributary dependencies, the general pass from the Highlands to the southward lay by what was called the Fords of Frew, at all times deep and difficult of passage, and often altogether unfordable.
Rob Roy
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Looking southward from the old windmill, whose supports sheltered us on that cold spring afternoon, I knew that, past Bailleul, and past Neuve Chapelle, I was looking straight toward Albert and the Somme, and I knew too that it was there that the British were taking over a new portion of the line, – so that we might be of some increased support – all that was then allowed us by the Allied Command!
England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
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She lingered, finally, over the _Metacom_, running her easting down far to the southward with square yards under a close-reefed maintop sail, double-reefed foresail and forestaysail, dead before a gale and gigantic long seas hurling the ship on in the bleak watery desolation.
Java Head
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The 22 day at eight in the morning, we cast about to the Southward; and this day in the morning we saw the William vnder our lee as far as we could see her, and with a great fogge we lost the sight of her, and since we haue not seene her.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Ospreys on their southward journeys flew in widely spaced single file above the marsh, some flapping deeply, others soaring gull-like, with wings bowed.
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Facing the other way at the mezzanine level, an office space, separated by a glass wall, looks southward onto the street.
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From there the broad channel, called the Kattegat, extends southward, between Sweden and the northern part of the Danish peninsula, until it reaches the large Island of Zealand, upon the eastern shore of which Copenhagen lies.
The Life of Nelson
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The promontory on which Sorrento stands is barren enough, but southward rise pleasant cliffs viridescent with samphire, and beyond them purple hills dotted with white spots of houses.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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This convergence gave rise to southward thrusting of the Yixieke forearc in Ordovician-Early Silurian time, which then led to obduction of the Buziwan ultrabasic rocks southward over the Kudi terrane.
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The sun slop'd from the southward; so dreed they their journey,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
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The cannonading grew, as the Russians turned their guns southward, I saw columns of earth ploughed up to the east of the Highlanders 'position, and with my heart in my mouth I buried my head in the horse's mane and fairly flew across the turf.
The Sky Writer
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(a) the westward movement, especially from the Northeast and subsequently from the Midwest and South regions; (b) southward movement from ‘Frostbelt’ to the ‘Sunbelt’ states, and especially the coastal segments of the Sunbelt; and (c) the flow to urban (particularly metropolitan) areas from rural and small-town communities throughout the nation.
The Population of the United States
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Principal mountains in Yunnan converge in northwest and from there they fan out southward and southwestward.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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A striking characteristic of the Hellenides in the Aegean is the southward propagation of nappe emplacement and high - pressure metamorphism.
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Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home,(Sentencedict) she headed west.
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It faces southwards away from the road, and its large, pretty garden is a real sun-trap that you could probably sit in on a fine winter's day.
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From the southward a "fruiter," as the vessels bringing fruit from the West Indies are called, came bravely up the coast.
Frank Merriwell's Reward
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Water," said Tom; "swim -- _swim_ across" (he pointed southward and made the motions of swimming).
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There
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In return, officials allowed us to take a southward route from the capital for a distance of about 180 kilometers on condition that we would not take photographs of farmers and farm villages.
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Overall the temporal progradation of nappe emplacement and high-pressure metamorphism towards the south mimics the southward retreat of the Hellenic subduction zone.
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Icebergs break off from the ice sheets and float southwards.
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A high wooded ridge that runs southward from the mouth of the Orne marked the boundary of the triangle to be held.
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But until then, the best way to ride out a Toba eruption is to do so in a place a bit to the eastward, and a bit to the southward (just the other side of the equator).
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Looking southward I can see the fifteenth-century tower of the university's Saint Salvator's College chapel.
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When the ice-period was in its prime, much of the Muir Glacier that now flows northward into Howling Valley flowed southward into Glacier
Travels in Alaska
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A couple of weeks was spent reducing the last major fortress to the south of Antioch, then Raymond led the army southward on 13 January 1099.
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They grade both northward and southward into coalesced alluvial fans forming the bajada that flanks the margins of the mountains.
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A little to the southward of this town, and to the east of the port, is Tor Bay, of which I know nothing proper to my observation, more than that it is a very good road for ships, though sometimes
From London to Land's End
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Finally, Antarctica is antipodal to the Arctic Ocean, mostly, as if its core had been pushed southward.
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Start the walk on the main village street and head southwards, in the opposite direction to the bridge over the River Tame.
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A class D9 No. 6028 departs southwards, seen from the signal box.
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Parts of this nation have emigrated to the southward of the Ohio river, and joined the Creek con - federacy.
A topographical description of the state of Ohio, Indiana territory, and Louisiana : comprehending the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and their principal tributary streams ; the face of the country, soils, waters, natural productions, animal, vegetable, and
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During the harsh winter months, approximately 120 different species of bird migrate southwards.
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To put the case more concisely, the _Star of the North_ had been carried for the distance of _four degrees and a half_ exactly of longitude backward on her outward track to New York and some _two degrees_ or thereabouts to the southwards, placing us as nearly as possible in the position the skipper had already indicated, a direction of some five hundred miles more or less from our proper course and about midway between Bermuda and the Azores, or Western Islands.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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The village sits at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet, in the middle of a mountain bowl that tilts southward, facing out over cliffs that plunge down to the banks of a river far below.
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In general it refers to the semi-historical, semi-legendary northerly location from which the various Nahua-speaking tribes set out on their long journey southwards into central Mexico and surrounding areas.
Aztec, Mexica, or Alien?
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Chiloe, about 340 miles southward of Concepcion, appears to have been shaken more strongly than the intermediate district of Valdivia, where the volcano of Villarica was noways affected, whilst in the Cordillera in front of Chiloe two of the volcanos burst forth at the same instant in violent action.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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On Tuesday the frontal rain in the north is likely to slide southwards, drawing down colder air for a time over northern and eastern parts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scotland will journey southward as rank outsiders.
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Growing in bogs and low woods from Maine to Minnesota and Washington, southward to Georgia and Missouri, there is a sweet-scented, little yellow-and-brown flower called the yellow lady's-slipper, the plant of which is said to have the same effect when handled as poison-ivy.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
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Another observer, writing in the mid-nineteenth century, placed the decline at 8 percent a year, with an additional loss of 2.75 percent due to interprovincial sales southward.
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The newcomers first occupied the region north of the Po, which has ever since been called Lombardy after them, and then extended their conquests southward.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
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At Monasterevin it turns southwards and makes its way through the rich tillage and pasturelands of Kildare, Carlow and Kilkenny, passing through the towns of Athy and Carlow along the way.
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We could not have been hunting for more than three hours, when glimpses of a deer trotting southwards through the thick shrubby timber caught my attention.
Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Final Week (Week Four)
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This increase is probably not solely the result of increased organizational effort, but may represent part of a larger-scale southward shift in the winter range of harp seals.
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And then the village, with its buildings and gardens covering the level bank to the southward, is charmingly placed, the waters spreading before it, a ridge of hills rising on either side, this almost wholly wooded, that partly tilled, while beyond lies a background, varied by nearer and farther heights.
Rural Hours
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Thick Permian to Cretaceous continental rise deposits merge southward into a continuous Ordovician to Eocene shelf sedimentary succession of marine carbonate, sandstone, siltstone and shale.
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The showery rain eased southwards yesterday, leaving eastern parts mainly dry today.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it runneth Southward into a certain great sea 700. miles about before it falleth into the sea called Pontus Euximus.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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Despite equatorial air being ever present on the fringes of this anticyclonic area, there are many years in Namibia when southward incursions rarely, if ever, occur.
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After Lord Rawdon's retreat from Camden, Gen. Greene pushed his operations southwardly, and has obliged the enemy to abandon or surrender all their posts in South Carolina, except
A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851
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Quoting a song called "Mississippi" in a concession speech from Wisconsin: Is Feingold hinting that he might carpetbag southward for an eventual comeback?
Election 2010: A walk on the mild side of victory (or defeat) parties
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Charley was heading straight for us in the morning, but took a southwardly slant in the afternoon causing it pass safely below us leaving us with just some annoying rain and a little wind.
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Interstate 405, also known as the San Diego Freeway or simply "the 405," is an almost 50-mile multilane bypass along the city's West Side, stretching from the San Fernando Valley southward to Irvine.
Carmageddon predicted for L.A.'s 405 closing
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A new tornado watch has just been issued right here, covering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, southward down to just west of Houston, includes the Austin-San Antonio area.
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The Northern Armies were to shoulder their way southward by offensive action.
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Our diurnal observations suggested movement to abundant food sources and avoidance of hazardous local weather conditions, as well as southward migration, as a reason for movement.
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However, permafrost covered large northern areas and many habitats were fragmented and displaced southward.
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The wind, always strongest on this part of the island, had veered southward, and rattled its danse macabre at the doors and windows.
COASTLINERS
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Then the express cars were moved by a switcher from the siding southward via the main track, and they were added to the rear of the New York section.
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As we are quick to tout the southward expansion of Anglicanism as evidence of its catholicity, we cannot reasonably expect that Africans and Asians will always march in lockstep with traditional Western theology.
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For many centuries their competing drives for influence on a volatile frontier and the southward projection of Russian-based dynasties have troubled relations between the two countries.
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Southwards along section towards the Sach Pass, the leucogranites gradually decrease in abundance and the pelitic rocks becomes more schistose.
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In Arctic-nesting birds, such as geese, young have little time to complete their growth and acquire the fat reserves required for the southward migration.
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The flux of sea ice southward through Fram Strait is known to be about 0.09 Sv [11], but the southward flux of seasonal sea ice formed outside the Arctic Ocean in the Barents, Bering, and Labrador Seas; the Canadian Archipelago; Hudson and Baffin Bays; and East Greenland is not known.
Marine Arctic
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XXXV IN THE NORTH tower yard, Nylan glanced from the armaglass panels up at the sky, where gray clouds twisted in and out and back upon each other as they churned their way southward, bringing moisture from the northern ocean.
Fall of Angels
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For before the sternmost ships of the squadron were clear of the Straits, the serenity of the sky was suddenly changed, and gave us all the presages of an impending storm; and immediately the wind shifted to the southward, and blew in such violent squalls that we were obliged to hand our topsails and reef our mainsail.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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Or some frore [177-8] Caspian reed bed, southward bound
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight.
Excerpt: Raven Summer by David Almond
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The plume of smoke has reached jet flying altitude and plans have been made for planes flying through Icelandic air control space to fly southwardly tonight," said Hjordis Gudmundsdottir, the spokeswoman for Isavia.
Iceland Volcano Erupts, White Plume Up To 18,000 Feet Seen: Report
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19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Having had your fill here, cross the river on the barrage, take the first left and drive along the east bank of the river southwards the toll bridge, stopping and starting as and when you need to.
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Southward, in the centre of the country, lie the pampas - a vast region of high plains which supports some of the best agricultural and livestock farming in the world.
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Yet here and there one could almost hear the footsteps of the Muses: in that beautiful San Francisco, for instance, under a sky of untroubled blue, by the edge of that marble Greek theater at Berkeley College, or in those ornamental gardens a little southward where the policemen ride among the pepper trees and the palm trees with lassoes before them on the saddle.
Later Articles and Reviews
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It bends sharply to the right and flows southward, almost parallel to the lake shore, for more than 30 miles, to its debouchure at Milwaukee.
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The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation carries warm upper waters into far-northern latitudes and returns cold deep waters southward across the Equator.
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Southward the land drops away to a vast plain suitable for livestock and plantation farming.
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We passed southwards over large tracts of bush and gramineous plants, with patches of small plantations, manioc and thur; and settlements girt by calabash-trees, cocoas, palmyra and oil palms.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The express cars were moved by a switcher from the siding southward via the main track, and they were added to the rear of the New York section.
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At the bottom end of Mesopotamia, the cradle of Western civilization, the Shatt takes in the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flows southward from Basra to the Persian Gulf.
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-- A pandanaceous plant from Panama and southward.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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The ice floes from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence that swept through the Strait of Canso every year were now blocked on their southward journey, and so they stayed to fill Saint George's Bay on the Causeway's north side.
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There is no cedar very near us; the white cedar, or cypress, is found about eight or nine miles to the northward, and still farther in that direction it is very abundant, but along the course of the river, southward from the lake, to a distance of more than a hundred miles, we do not remember to have seen it.
Rural Hours
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It was a visit that took him to Mogadishu and southwards to Kismayo.
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He passed that way a second time two days later, on his way back southward to Fort Lyon and thence to Denver, where he received a hero's welcome.
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Canada Turning the Corner
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The Dinaric Alps that cover this area also extend southward into Serbia and Montenegro.
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Or some frore [14] Caspian reed-bed, southward bound
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School
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The ecological barriers posed by the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Sahara seem to prevent most long-distance migrants from flying on a direct southward course from Europe to Africa.
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The northern hemisphere has effectively eradicated itself in a nuclear war, and the fallout is creeping inexorably southwards.
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Thence proceeding southwardly along the east side of the Greenwich Connector Road to Greenwich Road South.
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He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle, and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
Chapter 20
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Jack-in-the Pulpits are native to wet woodlands and heavily foliaged areas from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to Florida and Texas, so Kansas and Nebraska do not have exclusive rights to this exotic looking group.
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We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass's islands, without meeting with any ice at all.
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America are evidently bearing southwardly, and southwestwardly.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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The remainder of the clan had over the year migrated southwards towards the porcelain industry in Stourbridge.
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The North Atlantic Drift is balanced by the southward transfer of cold water at depth, known as North Atlantic Deep Water, which forms as the saline surface water cools and sinks near Greenland.
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He was heading southwards and had acquired a firearm.
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Better yet, take your U.S. dollars southward and enjoy the advantageous exchange rate.
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Visigothic nation flocked southward through the region which is now called Wallachia, and, standing on the northern shore of the Danube, prayed for admission within the province of Mœsia and the Empire of
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
