south by west
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Soon the fraying American regiments were being hounded south by west through New Jersey, and by Christmas Day King George’s troops had driven them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
On the first of June 1794, the British fleet was steering to the westward with a moderate breeze, south by west, and a tolerably smooth sea.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
The reckoning was 55° 55´; the course was south by west; the distance 56 miles.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
The first dispatch from Consul General Skinner was as follows: Admiralty reports American steamer Nebraskan, Liverpool for Delaware Breakwater, torpedoed forty miles south by west of Fastnet.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
Diss, a town, England, Norfolk, on the slope of a hill 18 miles south by west of Norwich.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
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