east by south
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adjective
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It was on the morning of the second day; three bells in the watch; the wind playing fickle from east by south, and the sea agold with the light of an August sun.
From The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Sir Max Pemberton
Nothing material occurred till the 31st, when about three o'clock in the afternoon they saw two islands, one bearing north-east, half east, seven leagues, and the other east by south, about six leagues distant.
From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Arthur Phillip
On Monday, the 20th, the steamer was running with square yards, at the rate of eight or nine knots an hour, steering about east by south, under double-reefed topsails and reefed foresail.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly
A. To steer off to the eastward, or east by south, just as the wind was; that was near the course that was ordered.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
The wind became more southerly, but we held our course the same as before, or east by south.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
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