southwest by west
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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We sailed with easterly and east southeasterly winds, now southwest by west and now northwest by west, for about four hundred leguas.
From History of the Philippine Islands by Robertson, James Alexander
All those tenders and store-ships of ours are going on southwest by west to New York to make a floating depot for us.
From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The tell-tale still indicated southwest by west as the course.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver
Cape Henry, the southern point of the entrance to the Chesapeake, then bore southwest by west, distant forty miles.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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