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easterly
1. dry stone walls, and sheltered from the easterly winds by a spinney of
2. They followed an easterly breeze to the mainland port of Stratos
3. Waddell then changed the heading to easterly for about
4. In 2001, William Easterly, one of the World Bank"s top economists, exposed some information in his
5. The sky was clear, the air was pleasant smelling, and there was a light easterly wind
6. They set out in a south easterly
7. stubborn left kept marching due north and, as they followed the current in its easterly direction,
8. Barely perceptible easterly winds may have blown the westward flight off course
9. "I told him we wanted to head easterly to look for an estate to lease, and I volunteered we were willing to help defend the kingdom
10. Before they all knew it the autumn of that year had given way once more to the cold easterly pangs of winter
11. It was known as the Western Avenue on the A 40 that was the corridor for traffic entering London in an easterly direction and exiting the city from the west
12. The countryside about Tarantia had escaped the fearful ravaging of the more easterly provinces
13. Leaving the Balearic Islands them, Siri and the new member of his crew set a south easterly course for Tunisia
14. The Hindu people ventured more easterly and laid roots down
15. Mitchell’s was starting to look smaller and smaller as he patiently milked every foot of lift out of the easterly wind
16. When the easterly wind blew, it blew straight in off the ocean, meaning that the pilots could land in the park instead of out on the beach
17. On the windy, easterly days, he watched them glide across to Mitchell’s and work their gliders up the precipitous east face, finally getting lit up like candles by the setting afternoon sun as they rose gracefully, like soaring eagles, above the thousand foot summit of the now conquered mountain
18. He was hoping to get back in time to catch the predicted afternoon easterly wind
19. Easterly winds on the ocean surface generated three-foot waves and the canister rode their crests then slide gently down into their troughs, time after time
20. 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
21. That relief, caused by water laden clouds drifting in off the warm Indian Ocean, propelled by a gentle north easterly wind, was now sifting down gently and had the locals huddled over their drinks far earlier than usual
22. Old roads and trails serviced the power lines running along the easterly border of the trees; homes lined the fence on the west
23. The commandos’ silently boarded the chopper and it took off on an easterly direction, heading into the night sky
24. in an easterly direction towards the quarry
25. His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added appellation of Jerry
26. Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,
27. "Exactly, for Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south, and I haven't had an easterly spell since I was married
28. During the easterly monsoon season, birds of paradise lose the magnificent feathers around their tails that naturalists call 'below–the–wing' feathers
29. Instead of continuing north, the Nautilus took an easterly heading, as if to go along this plateau on which the telegraph cable rests, where multiple soundings have given the contours of the terrain with the utmost accuracy
30. For a few weeks it was all well enough, but afterwards, O the weary length of the nights! The shivering, sunless days! The air so clammy and chill, and not an insect in an acre of it! No, it was no good; my courage broke down, and one cold, stormy night I took wing, flying well inland on account of the strong easterly gales
31. It had backed steadily around from the easterly which had driven them onto the shoal
32. A bitter easterly breeze blew with a threat of oncoming winter
33. in mist and cloud; yet the Horse-lords had formerly kept many herds and studs in the Eastemnet, this easterly region of their realm, and there the herdsmen had wandered much, living in camp and tent, even in winter-time
34. rattling in the chill easterly wind
35. But as they went the most easterly of the roads followed them, until it ran off, hugging the skirts of the mountains, away into a wall of black shadow far ahead
36. Before too long we had weigh’d Anchor again and were under Sail on our Way to the Downs, where we did not tarry owing to an Easterly Wind (so Cocklyn later told us) which took us, with great Dispatch, ’round the Isle of Wight, and thro’ the choppy and blust’ry Channel
37. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar
38. Jens Larsen testified that he was returning late one evening from Tolstrup (as he remembered, it was not the evening of Niels Bruus's disappearance, but the evening of the following day), and was passing the rectory garden on the easterly side by the usual footpath
39. Direction of the strata north and south, varying a little easterly; inclination perpendicular