southeast by east
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noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Our course had been almost the whole night southeast by east and the course was therefore east by south; the distance was upwards of eighty miles.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by James, Bartlett Burleigh
There was heavy forest along the road, and it seemed to us to run southeast by east.
From Three Times and Out by McClung, Nellie L.
We raised our anchors accordingly, and sailed along southeast by east, continually coasting the land which ran in that direction.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
On December 20, we turned away from the Mekong valley and began to march southeast by east across an unmapped region toward Ta-li Fu.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Andrews, Roy Chapman
When she had passed beyond the range of her guns, she shaped her course southeast by east for Santander, the frigate being now dead astern.
From Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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