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1. By the time that he reached his mid forties, Tom’s good looks and the firmness of his buttocks were on that inevitable, gravitational slide southwards
2. Ultimately, facing the reality of time’s drip southwards, and the sharp scythe wielded by the grim reaper of domesticated animals, the couple found solace in their passionate love for one another
3. the reality of time’s drip southwards, and the sharp scythe wielded
4. The sun was just starting to take the slight chill of the morning from their cheeks as they pressed southwards
5. Small white clouds drifted slowly southwards
6. They would see the lights of passing towns as they made the long journey southwards through Wales and England to the southeast
7. sent the young man southwards
8. half of Britain, anywhere from Cheshire southwards
9. Those four pairs of agents will sweep northwards along the four main North-South roads and land routes in Italy, while I will travel southwards down the western coastal road of Italy
10. In that time, Japanese forces had steadily driven the forces defending the Malay Peninsula southwards in a relentless but short campaign
11. She caught her breath as the hand continued its investigation southwards, cupping, converging, caressing
12. Their group of helicopters stayed at relatively low altitude as they flew southwards in the grey sky, crossing the coast after maybe thirty minutes
13. had accompanied the shipment from Tomsk took turns sleeping as they drove southwards
14. They had sailed southwards but had faltered in a storm and had been washed up on a strange shore
15. He realised that the Illians would try to find him and kill him, so he decided he would head southwards, to confuse them
16. The road below turned out long and winding in some parts, but it stayed mostly on a straight course southwards; the Saxons were trotting in their band, but were beginning to straggle out after another hour
17. with coal rattled southwards
18. the horses of the slain soldiers bolted and galloped southwards
19. It was snowing hard as I beat through the passes of the great mountains, and I had a stiff fight to win through; but never shall I forget the blissful feeling of the hot sun again on my back as I sped down to the lakes that lay so blue and placid below me, and the taste of my first fat insect! The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call! No, I had had my warning; never again did I think of disobedience
20. They came west after the Harfoots and followed the course of the Loudwater southwards; and there many of them long dwelt between Tharbad and the borders of Dunland before they moved north again
21. off southwards and passed out of the Wood-elves' ken, and was lost
22. They were being headed off, and were simply following a course chosen for them - eastwards and southwards, into the heart of the Forest and not out of it
23. southwards and was on a round hill-top, which he must have climbed from the
24. They roamed at will southwards, and eastwards even as far as the Misty Mountains; but they were now few and rarely seen
25. loop of the Road, which further on bent southwards to avoid the Midgewater Marshes
26. At the Ford of Bruinen they left the Road and turning southwards went
27. shadow of a tree, looking out southwards and westwards, with his head posed
28. now and again; but as the westering Sun grew red they disappeared southwards
29. It faced southwards, and near the bottom it leaned out a little, so that
30. `When we left the pass I led you southwards, and not back to our starting point, as some of you may have noticed
31. There the road, which had been veering southwards between the brink of the channel and a steep fall of the
32. southwards as far as the eye could see, but all the banks were bleak and
33. Not that most of the Company were eager to hurry southwards: they were content that the decision, which they must make at latest when they came to Rauros and the Tindrock Isle, still lay some days ahead; and they let the River bear them on at its
34. In the next day or two, as they went on, borne steadily southwards, this feeling of insecurity grew on all the Company
35. Southwards to their left they could see the forest falling away down into the grey distance
36. So they sang as they marched southwards
37. and went off southwards into the deep shadows that mantled all the western sides of Ephel D®ath; beyond his sight it journeyed on into the narrow land between the mountains and the Great River
38. down to Osgiliath and the bridges of the Anduin; in the middle the road went on southwards
39. the City, either north of Cair Andros because of the marshes, or southwards
40. Stonewain Valley yonder,' he waved his hand southwards; 'but narrow at
41. of cover before they went into open battle; for beyond them lay the road and the plains of Anduin, while east and southwards the slopes were bare and rocky, as the writhen hills gathered themselves together and climbed up, bastion upon bastion, into the great mass and shoulders of Mindolluin
42. ' He waved his hand vaguely in the air before him; but he was in fact now facing southwards, as he came back to Shelob's
43. looked away southwards; but when his eyes beheld the Mountain and the desert
44. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgyl the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom
45. She got her bathe, however, because on Sunday they drove her forty miles or so southwards down the one road to a place called Berry Springs, a deep water hole in a river where the bathing was good
46. The bus started at dawn next day, and drove on southwards down the tarmac road, past Milners Lagoon and Newcastle Waters and Muckety Bore to Tennant Creek
47. During the Glacial period, when the inhabitants of the Old and New Worlds lived further southwards than they do at present, they must have been still more completely separated from each other by wider spaces of ocean; so that it may well be asked how the same species could then or previously have entered the two continents
48. Believing, from reasons before alluded to, that our continents have long remained in nearly the same relative position, though subjected to great oscillations of level, I am strongly inclined to extend the above view, and to infer that during some earlier and still warmer period, such as the older Pliocene period, a large number of the same plants and animals inhabited the almost continuous circumpolar land; and that these plants and animals, both in the Old and New Worlds, began slowly to migrate southwards as the climate became less warm, long before the commencement of the Glacial period
49. When, during the height of the Glacial period, the ocean-currents were widely different to what they now are, some of the inhabitants of the temperate seas might have reached the equator; of these a few would perhaps at once be able to migrate southwards, by keeping to the cooler currents, while others might remain and survive in the colder depths until the southern hemisphere was in its turn subjected to a glacial climate and permitted their further progress; in nearly the same manner as, according to Forbes, isolated spaces inhabited by Arctic productions exist to the present day in the deeper parts of the northern temperate seas
50. No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there