southwestward

How To Use southwestward In A Sentence

• We sailed in a southwestward direction.
• Seventy miles southwestward, another cloud formation had formed over the dim blue shape of the White Mountains. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
• There I spent some comfortable days, sleeping much, having myself read to, mostly from the private letters of the Emperors, and from the Anticatones of the Divine Julius; and, from the balcony of the ante-room enjoying the splendid view southwestwards, over the Circus Maximus, the lower reaches of the Tiber and the Campagna, for my apartment was on that side of the Palace and high up. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
• These colonization directions included: (i) southwestwards, with a relatively gradual range expansion during suitable periods in Western Europe; and (ii) northeastwards, with a more irregular expansion in Central and Eastern Europe. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• She was in lunging motion before Mark had recovered his wits, sliding like a snake southwestward towards Carnarvon and Abermenai, where doubtless her companions were now in harbour or moored in the roads outside the dunes. His Disposition
• The History of the Eastern Han Dynasty clearly states that Haixi was Daqin (haixi ji daqin ye), and that the Sham connected Daqin southwestward (shanguo xi'nan tong daqin) .89 Unfortunately, India was rarely mentioned. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• Note 68: That is why Emperor Wu dispatched four emissaries to locate the road to India, looking not only southwestward but also westward and northwestward. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• Looking from our hill-top southwestwardly across the plain, the eye is carried between two low ranges of hills into a valley which seems a continuation of this plain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
• ` And now, 'he was softly saying, ` I take to the road again, holding on southwestwards for many a long and dusty day; till at last I reach the little grey sea town I know so well, that clings along one steep side of the harbour. The Wind in the Willows
• The farther you go southwestwards, however, the more refinement you meet with, because the climate is more temperate, and accordingly there they have cities and temples dedicated to their idols, in which they sacrifice men and afterwards eat them. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest