southwards

Other southern Avalon Irish initially entered through the port of St. John's, attracted by its increasing commercial activity and potential for employment, ultimately wending their way southwards from the town (mirroring a similar diaspora northwards into Conception Bay).

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

The question of what we were to do in the immediate future was settled for us; for four days out of the six during which we were at One Ton the weather made travelling southwards, that is against the wind, either entirely impossible or such that the chance of seeing another party at any distance was nil.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

Again frustrated, he turned southwards, meaning to cross above the Rosaires Cataract, which was without doubt impassable to steamers.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle, and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.

Chapter 20 2010

All the heads of the reeds are tilted southwards as if anticipating where change will eventually arise.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

We could not have been hunting for more than three hours, when glimpses of a deer trotting southwards through the thick shrubby timber caught my attention.

Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Final Week (Week Four) 2009

We could not have been hunting for more than three hours, when glimpses of a deer trotting southwards through the thick shrubby timber caught my attention.

Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Final Week (Week Four) 2009

Waves lose their translucence, become a million jagged snowcaps that bob and creak, weave and thrash on a suicide mission southwards, the North Fork of Long Island, a blue and brown dash in the distance.

Monkeytown prologue/chapter first Chris Vola 2011

I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight.

Excerpt: Raven Summer by David Almond 2009

A major cold front brought unusually low temperatures to many central southern US states early last week, as a chilled mass of air pushed southwards.

Weatherwatch: weekly global round-up 2011