Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
southeastward .
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- adverb Toward the
southeast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a southeastward direction
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Examples
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From the ramparts the picture extending before us southeastwardly is very fine indeed, as, over the rusty houses shouldering each other up the hill so that we can almost look down the chimneys, we look out to the fortified islands and points, with the ocean beyond.
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Here, provided with a retinue of one hundred men of the Commi nation, his overland journey began, and led him through the hilly country of the Bakalai southeastwardly to the village of Olenda.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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No. 1 Highway, thence southwestwardly along the southeast boundary of said highway a distance of 238 feet to the corner of the Mary Washington College property, thence southeastwardly a distance of 2,285 feet to the beginning, containing 0.79 of an acre.
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A road twenty miles long, commencing at Naples, extends southeastwardly along the shore of the bay and then, winding inland, completely encircles the mountain.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904
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We here desire to call attention to an apparent change going on in the current of the main New Inlet, which now seems to take a southeastwardly direction from the inner
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I advanced southeastwardly to hills in that direction, keeping abreast of the movement on Rocky Face.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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From that pass we were to move southeastwardly, having the Sierra then on the right, and reach the
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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ON September 7th we left the forts on the South Fork to go southeastwardly to the Arkansas.
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Here we finally left the Bear River and went southeastwardly toward Black
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Going from there in northeasterly direction, one reaches again, by a rather open road, the Green River and the Sweet Waters; but we preferred to go southeastwardly, and to keep entirely off from our former route.
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