The commander of the first Roman galley must have looked with an intense absorption upon the estuary of the Thames as he turned the beaked prow of his ship to the
westward under the brow of the North Foreland.
And in the
westward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon.
Westward I saw the zodiacal light mingling with the yellow brilliance of the evening star.
And for the first time in the history of trading my schooners to the
westward carried Bibles in their stock.
In the second place, the ebb was now making--a strong rippling current running
westward through the basin, and then south'ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning.
The field-folk shut in there traded northward and
westward, travelled, courted, and married northward and
westward, thought northward and
westward; those on this side mainly directed their energies and attention to the east and south.
How glazed each weary eye, When looking
westward, I beheld A something in the sky.
These Fuegians are a very different race from the stunted, miserable wretches farther
westward; and they seem closely allied to the famous Patagonians of the Strait of Magellan.
Then he told them that here they should part company; they three going to the eastward and he to the
westward, and so, skirting the main highroads, would come by devious paths to Sherwood.
The trappers now left the scene of this infamous tragedy, and kept on
westward, down the course of the river, which wound along with a range of mountains on the right hand, and a sandy, but somewhat fertile plain, on the left.
Her position decided, the Susquehanna was found to be some minutes
westward of the spot where the projectile had disappeared beneath the waves.
Then, when the storm broke, Wolf Larsen cruised back and forth over that portion of the ocean where we had encountered it, and somewhat more to the
westward, while the boats were being repaired and new sails made and bent.