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    southerly


    1. Clouds darkened the sky driven by cold southerly


    2. The most southerly country in Europe, this lies on the Aegean, Ionian and Mediterranean seas


    3. The most southerly country, this is mainly hil s and mountains, with over 500 rivers, rainforest and cloud forests


    4. unmolested and, without fanfare, the Shenandoah continued on her southerly heading along the western African coast


    5. Francisco, and heading southerly, cruising parallel to the


    6. Suddenly the swirling blades headed in a southerly direction and soon could be heard landing over at Teewah Beach’s helipad, which was the only way in and out in an emergency at high tide


    7. The eruption they counted on did not materialize although the more southerly one continued to smoke and rumble ominously


    8. While his business was taking him in a southerly direction, mine kept me in the north—heading to New York City


    9. The southerly direction of the road gradually turned toward the west


    10. ” Again his moving staff repeated its southerly arc

    11. It had veered in a more southerly direction than the overland route they had taken on their way to the now forgotten Project


    12. The tired band was slowly forced to turn evermore into a southerly direction to avoid detection


    13. “As you remember,” Yigal answered, “I was to take the most southerly sweep in this direction


    14. It had veered in a more southerly direction than the overland


    15. The southerly continent was cleared of all Arct habitation and the forest planted to provide the vital oxygen


    16. Alone, and at fifty-five years of age, he began his journey on foot in a southerly direction towards the Parisian suburbs, and he wondered at his sanity


    17. There was a light southerly breeze, making the leaves


    18. They’re predicting a new southerly change during the week


    19. As it turned out, the forecast southerly never arrived


    20. The northwest wind usually preceded a southerly change in that part of the world

    21. As the two best friends sat together, chatting, laughing and passing the smoke to each other, a cool, southerly breeze stirred the treetops


    22. Adam watched Arnold pull in the base bar and penetrate his wing through the solid twenty-knot southerly wind


    23. To add a little seasoning to the visual feast, there was a constant parade of sails and every other type of floating craft imaginable, there were sun crystals shimmering on the water in the afternoons, and occasionally, there would be a southerly squall rampaging furiously up the harbour


    24. He had been flying all day in the cold, gusty southerly wind, which was so typical of early September


    25. Liberty knew that the low tides were going to be early in the mornings for the next few days and that there was a southerly wind blowing


    26. Only this one,” he adds, tapping a map with the pistol, “the most southerly and easterly, perched just west of the great Utan Desert, matches


    27. The chopper took off in a Southerly direction, and entering Cambodia, flew towards Sihanoukville for their rendezvous with Lee


    28. And in this we have been very strict, not including the more southerly Canadian provinces, which are also not well known for being small places


    29. I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw


    30. Traveling in the lead, the Compass ran afoul of breakers on the southerly coast

    31. I expected these long plains to change into mountain regions, and in fact, as the Nautilus was executing certain turns, I noticed that the southerly horizon was blocked by a high wall that seemed to close off every exit


    32. In 1838 the Frenchman Dumont d'Urville stopped at the Ice Bank in latitude 62° 57', sighting the Louis–Philippe Peninsula; on January 21 two years later, at a new southerly position of 66° 30', he named the Adélie Coast and eight days later, the Clarie Coast at 64° 40'


    33. Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana , but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e


    34. We were coming out of the ice-pack on our way home, with head winds and a week's southerly gale, when we picked up a little craft that had been blown north


    35. Under the northern steep of the down the air had been still, but here the southerly breeze


    36. When we pulled out of Portland, Oregon, all the southerly routes over the mountains were already closed, and the northerly highway we were taking through Montana and North Dakota was shutting down behind us as we tried to outrun a snowstorm


    37. The departure point for our rather less dramatic expedition was Ushuaia in the Tierra del Fuego province of Argentina, the most southerly city in the world


    38. Southerly, at many miles' distance, and over the hills and ridges coastward, she could discern a surface like polished steel: it was the English Channel at a point far out towards France


    39. while, however, the river took a more southerly course and the Mountain receded again, and at last, late in the day the shores grew rocky, the river gathered all its wandering waters together into a deep and rapid flood, and they swept along at great speed


    40. They started off in a southerly direction

    41. At the Time I receiv’d the aforesaid Sign from the Goddess upon High (or from the Heavenly Spheres, the Supreme Being, or whatsoe’er you may wish to call Her), we had been at Sea, as I have said, six Weeks, and we were already in most southerly Climes


    42. My sister and I held hands and the girls hugged and kissed me, after which the Molinari family piled back into the car and continued in a southerly direction


    43. The stop-and-go rush hour traffic was typical for a weekday, so I pointed the Explorer in a southerly direction and used the time to replay my last brief talk with Chief Tracchio


    44. The most southerly permanent human habitation is the US Amundsen-Scott South Polar Station, completed in 1957 and replaced in 1975


    45. Of all that Napoleon might have done: wintering in Moscow, advancing on Petersburg or on Nizhni-Novgorod, or retiring by a more northerly or more southerly route (say by the road Kutuzov afterwards took), nothing more stupid or disastrous can be imagined than what he actually did


    46. He also said the board could not force ships to take the southerly passage in the spring to avoid ice


    47. The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales


    48. Not an intermitting spring! Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them


    49. Of all that Napoleon might have done: wintering in Moscow, advancing on Petersburg or on Nízhni-Nóvgorod, or retiring by a more northerly or more southerly route (say by the road Kutúzov afterwards took), nothing more stupid or disastrous can be imagined than what he actually did


    50. The Eastern State shall be bounded by the last-mentioned direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said Territorial line: Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan


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    Synonyms for "southerly"

    south wind souther southerly southern southward southwards

    "southerly" definitions

    a wind from the south


    situated in or oriented toward the south


    from the south; used especially of wind


    toward the south


    from the south