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Westwardly

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west·ward  (wstwrd)
adv. & adj.
Toward, to, or in the west.
n.
A westward direction, point, or region.

westward·ly adv. & adj.
westwards adv.


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On the 24th, the travellers took final leave of the Sweet Water, and keeping westwardly, over a low and very rocky ridge, one of the most southern spurs of the Wind River Mountains, they encamped, after a march of seven hours and a half, on the banks of a small clear stream, running to the south, in which they caught a number of fine trout.
But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-coloured panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulged in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.
North Westwardly from Indian Hill, about nine miles as the crow flies, is Macarger's Gulch.
 
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