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SOUTH-WEST
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the southwest
Synonyms:
sou'west; south-west; southwest
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Context examples:
He was now fixed on the far east of the northern shore, on the east of the southern shore, and on the south. The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. I went back to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had been taken from Carfax.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The sails of the vessel I had seen off to the south-west had grown larger and plainer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A gentleman of distinction said to me, that since the ships bound for Luggnagg could not be ready in less than a month, it might be no disagreeable amusement for me to take a trip to the little island of Glubbdubdrib, about five leagues off to the south-west.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Away to the south-west of us we saw two low hills, about a couple of miles apart, and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the south-west, and almost in our course, I saw the pyramidal loom of some vessel’s sails.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
During this storm, which was followed by a strong wind west-south-west, we were carried, by my computation, about five hundred leagues to the east, so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of the world we were.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The high wind blew from the north-west for twenty-four hours, when it fell calm, and in the night sprang up from the south-west.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And although this were little better than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my course eastward, hoping to reach the south-west coast of New Holland, and perhaps some such island as I desired lying westward of it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I looked with misgiving toward the south-west and thought of the six hundred miles of hardship before us—ay, if it were no worse than hardship.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we sailed southward a long time, and coasting New Holland, kept our course west-south-west, and then south-south-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
