south by east
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noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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But now we had a month of onshore gales, blowing day in, day out—south winds, or south by east.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
“To reach the Dreadfort, Your Grace must travel down the kingsroad past the Last River, turn south by east and cross the Lonely Hills.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
We embark at Colombo for Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, steering a course south by east through the Indian Ocean for a distance of about thirty-five hundred miles.
From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray
In the terms of the sea, your course is west-south-west until the Bay is open, then south-south-west, then south, and then south by east a half-east for the long stretch.
From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson
As soon as deep water was indicated by the soundings, the pilot was discharged, and the captain then gave out the course south by east.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
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