southwesterly

Historical Examples

• A southwesterly breeze had sprung up, and there was a watery look about the sky.

  The Night Riders

  Ridgwell Cullum

• The nursery should be a quiet room with a south or southwesterly exposure.

  The Mother and Her Child

  William S. Sadler

• They set out at a fox-trot, continuing their southwesterly direction.

  Bred of the Desert

  Marcus Horton

• The habitat of this grape extends from southern Oklahoma, as a northern limit, southwesterly into Mexico.

  Manual of American Grape-Growing

  U. P. Hedrick

• Stratton remembered Las Vegas as the name of a camp down at the southwesterly extremity of the ranch.

  Shoe-Bar Stratton

  Joseph Bushnell Ames