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- adjective Towards the east.
- adjective from the east.
- adverb In or from an
easterly direction.
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Examples
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Cwm Gwerin eastwardly is lonelier and finer still, one wall scoured to bare rock by glaciation, a castellated ridge on the other towering above the Afon Hengwm that drains peatlands towards Dylife.
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Nor was water by any means plentiful, even though the section is traversed by important streams, the Republican, the Smoky Hill, the Arkansas, the Cimarron, and the Canadian all flowing eastwardly, as do also their tributaries in the main.
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Above all, though, one senses a thoroughly sober calculation in play -- that Turkey comes out richer and more powerful from a more eastwardly alignment, and certainly Erdogan's AK Party does.
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Above all, though, one senses a thoroughly sober calculation in play -- that Turkey comes out richer and more powerful from a more eastwardly alignment, and certainly Erdogan's AK Party does.
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Ecoregion 72 is veneered by eastwardly thinning loess (Fehrenbacher and others, 1967, fig. 9).
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Dark-colored Mollisols and, especially, light-colored Alfisols are common, and were derived from eastwardly thinning loess, westwardly thinning glacial drift, glacial outwash, residuum, or alluvium.
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BREUS: What they're finding is that melatonin certainly seems to help people when flying in an eastwardly direction.
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The Iberians stretch out as far as the Moschian mountains and the Pontus; the Albanians lie more eastwardly, and towards the
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by
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Nephthali did extend itself eastwardly as much as the land of Issachar and
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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