The wind blew westerly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We began to steer away westerly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The prospect westerly is not so auspicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Before Us] Reference
What I doubt some is whether the word 'westerly' was there right from the start off of the beginnin '. From Wordnik.com. [Scattergood Baines] Reference
'westerly' appearin 'in all the papers McKettrick's got regardin' this enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Scattergood Baines] Reference
The westerly, across the Atlantic, North America and the. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
"I believe we're nearer the westerly side," said Jennie. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Gaul -- has an easterly, and the lower one a westerly, aspect. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Atlantic coinciding with the path of the maximum westerly winds. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
I have now reached the utmost south-westerly point of ruins on the. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
The most easterly of the chain is Timor, the most westerly Sumatra. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
One night, in consequence of a light westerly wind with a heavy swell and. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
By the westerly route you go with the sun, which causes each day to be lengthened. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
The ridge occupied by the enemy terminated abruptly where the ravine turns westerly. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Its eastern row of cells is a direct continuation of the most westerly row of the S. wing. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Sunday the 19th comes; a fine day, atmosphere somewhat hazy, little sea, moderate westerly wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference
Yet vigorous constitutions thoroughly enjoy the bracing nature of the westerly weather of winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The westerly winds scoured Australia and blew away close to an entire continent worth of vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur] Reference
There we gained first knowledge that we had passed the summit, on observing that the streams flowed westerly. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Even in this shelter vessels are sometimes blown away from their anchors both by easterly and westerly winds. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Trondhjem, past Tromso, they steamed, until in a north-westerly gale and driving snow they lost sight of land. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The most westerly is the H. Italie, and, about 100 feet up the bank behind, the principal house of the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Bordighera, instead of being a north-westerly wind, deviates by the configuration of the coast into a west wind. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Now they had shadows which, Jean Maria noticed as Hodge had opened the door for her, pointed in a westerly direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven] Reference
The railroad, running north and south, takes a westerly bend as it crosses the Molopo River some 300 yards south of the town. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Nile, a small creek that takes its rise in the Alps, and flows in a south-westerly direction, and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
The harbourage is good, but rather difficult to make in rough weather; south-westerly winds drive the seas fiercely against its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
July, in connection with the westerly type of climate; and, moreover, ice has at times been observed in the water-jugs of bedrooms, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
From St. Peter's you travel across a narrow strip of land until you reach the shore upon the extreme westerly end of the island of Cape. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
On the east side of the ridge, which is quite precipitous, is a ravine running first north, then westerly, terminating at Baker's Creek. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Sighting the North Cape of Lapland, they held on a north-westerly course till on 9th June they came upon a little island which they named. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Climate: variable, with mostly westerly winds throughout the year interspersed with periods of calm; nearly all precipitation falls as snow. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
In the winter there are mostly dry, cold N.E. winds, broken at intervals by westerly and S.W. gales of moderate strength, squalls, and rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The Bay is fully exposed to south-westerly winds, which often hurl tremendous seas upon its coast, and many a good vessel has been driven to its destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Below the line of about ten thousand feet easterly winds bring an abundance of rain; above that line westerly winds bring occasional showers and snow squalls. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Australia, in September 1844, to proceed overland in a north-westerly direction to Port Essington, on the north coast, a distance of more than three thousand miles. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
From here there were two routes, one westerly along the route over which the Central Pacific Railway was afterward built, the other southerly into southern California. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
But such slumbering is not their characteristic mood; there is generally a strong ocean swell, and when westerly winds chafe the tide its force and fury are tremendous. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Manila the party of naturalists of the Bureau of Science who had been studying the little-known fauna and flora of that far-away island, the most westerly of the Philippine group. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference
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