Southward
['saʊθwəd] or ['sʌðəd]
Definition
(adv.) Alt. of Southwards
(a.) Toward the south.
(n.) The southern regions or countries; the south.
Edited by Astor
Examples
- He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a civilized people for long ages before the fair Aryan Greeks spread southward through Macedonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But no sooner was this promotion secured than he started again on his wanderings southward, while his friend Adams went North, neither having any difficulty in making the trip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ord had been directed to take possession of all the roads southward between Burkesville and the High Bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He returned southward, and came down into India by the Khyber Pass. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dominions of the emperor Tai-tsung (627), the second Tang monarch, extended southward into Annam and westward to the Caspian Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But already in Italy, as in Greece, the Aryans were coming southward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They drifted northward as the snows melted for summer pasture, and southward to winter pasture after the custom of the steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They desired, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise, that if the vessel should be freed, I would instantly direct my coarse southward. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Then he pushed southward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After several Thracian expeditions he turned southward in good earnest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A much more serious push southward was that of the Goths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They swept westward to the Caspian, and southward as far as Lahore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then we held our course southward, and began to read up celebrated Smyrna. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was a nomadic drift to the east of Persia and southward through Afghanistan towards India, as well as this drift to the north-west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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