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TO THE SOUTH
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a southern direction
Example:
we moved south
Synonyms:
in the south; south; to the south
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Context examples:
From the windows I could see that the suite of rooms lay along to the south of the castle, the windows of the end room looking out both west and south. On the latter side, as well as to the former, there was a great precipice.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I had now been two years in this country; and about the beginning of the third, Glumdalclitch and I attended the king and queen, in a progress to the south coast of the kingdom.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And there to the south?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on the small moon of Jupiter.
(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)
And then, France had increased by leaps and bounds, reaching out to the north into Belgium and Holland, and to the south into Italy, whilst we were weakened by deep-lying disaffection among both Catholics and Presbyterians in Ireland.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The road took a sweep to the south of the town, and continued in the opposite direction to that in which we started.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But if he trended to the south he might reach Spain and the Barbary States.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Sometimes it is clear, and at midday the sun looks at us for a moment over the hills to the south. The northern lights flame in the sky, and the sun-dogs dance, and the air is filled with frost-dust.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
As I was looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the north-north-east, which appearing every minute more visible, I was in some doubt whether I should wait for them or not; but at last my detestation of the Yahoo race prevailed: and turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south, and got into the same creek whence I set out in the morning, choosing rather to trust myself among these barbarians, than live with European Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
