What is "westwards"

Usage examples of "westwards".

Behind the great headland westwards lay the Camara de Lobos: seals were said to breed there.

When they returned to their camp, they saw that the droving team were moving slowly westwards, so the desert nomads walked quickly to the well and drank their fill, then replenished their wooden coolamons with water for the trip.

When frost prevents access to food in the east, thrushes and blackbirds move westwards, just as the fieldfares and redwings do.

Then I saw what it was: the remains of some ancient writing, the ogam letters blurred and worn till they showed like the fletching on a shaft, and a barbed head pointing westwards.

He was to move westwards to Makara with us, but once there he was to push on towards Fort Pirie, leaving us to cope.

At the same time, water is also spreading westwards along the same tracks from the direction of Tilbury and Grays.

Portpool Lane she had taken the omnibus westwards and over whichever of the bridges was appropriate, but since they were directly opposite Wapping, it made sense for Monk to cross by ferry and be at the police station in fifteen minutes or so.

He went first to Wapping station simply to ascertain that no crisis had arisen demanding his attention, then he took a hansom westwards to the Old Bailey to see Rathbone.

Elric and Dyvim Slorm fled westwards across unknown country while the other Imrryrians, to take attention off their leaders, rode to the north east towards Tarkesh and perhaps a few days of safety.

The three heads, projected westwards from the Umm Furut peak and then trending northwards, form a lateral valley, a bay known as Wady el-Kaimah.

South parts of ye world called Terra Australis, incognita, extending Eastwards and Westwards from ye Straights of Le Maire, together with all ye adjacente Islands, etc.

As the pilot turned his Chinook westwards, presumably to see what the conditions were like in the polder, de Graaf leaned over to one of the Rijkswaterstaat experts.

For a moment Jack fixed the glowing spray as it was whirled inboard and then across the face of the foresail by the currents from the jibs and staysail, and then he turned his eyes westwards, where the planet was as low on the horizon as she could be.

His stomach hollow with apprehension, he was just clawing for height after it when he saw Forde diving westwards with his propeller stopped, and as the grey triplane swung after him, he rolled into a steep dive and drove it off his tail.

He could take the road to Ventimiglia thus taking advantage of the new autoroutes westwards along the Riviera or take the shorter but more winding direct route to Nice.