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SOUTH-EAST
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the southeast
Synonyms:
sou'-east; south-east; southeast
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Context examples:
Denotes a person from any of the islands in the western pacific encompassing the area from the Philippines in the west, Indonesia to the south west, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the south-east and east.
(Micronesian, NCI Thesaurus)
On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was the end of the third day of a fierce storm which had swung around the compass from the south-east to the north-west, and which was then blowing directly in upon us.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But the light airs which had begun blowing from the south-east and south had hauled round after nightfall into the south-west.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But, not to trouble the reader with a particular account of my distresses, let it suffice, that on the fifth day I arrived at the last island in my sight, which lay south-south-east to the former.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The sea breeze, as though it had the sooner blown itself out by its unusual violence, was already at an end; it had been succeeded by light, variable airs from the south and south-east, carrying great banks of fog; and the anchorage, under lee of Skeleton Island, lay still and leaden as when first we entered it.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September 1701, at six in the morning; and when I had gone about four-leagues to the northward, the wind being at south-east, at six in the evening I descried a small island, about half a league to the north-west.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We landed at a small port-town called Xamoschi, situated on the south-east part of Japan; the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into along arm of the sea, upon the north-west part of which, Yedo, the metropolis, stands.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
