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  • Green river as far as the Eut mountains; Southward from the source to the outlet of Bear river, of the Big Lake; thence to the mouth of Porto-muf, on

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

  • "Southward," he said, but paused, looking down the hill toward the gate-keeper's cottage around which a small crowd still hovered.

    Madcap George Gibbs 1906

  • Rossby waves are kinks or meanders in a jet stream, and if such kinks in the Northern hemisphere's polar jet stream stretch Southward in the Summer, they expose Northern Europe to cold polar air.

    Team Brawn, Rossby waves and laser sparkplugs Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Rossby waves are kinks or meanders in a jet stream, and if such kinks in the Northern hemisphere's polar jet stream stretch Southward in the Summer, they expose Northern Europe to cold polar air.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Southward steering creep the vessels, while the lights of morning grow;

    The Voyage of Magellan 2010

  • The nation's African-American population continued its southward migration over the past decade, shifting a large part of the black middle class from northern states to faster-growing economies of the South.

    Blacks Find New Attraction in South 2011

  • However, freshman Shawn Southward made a major push and led Troy with 602 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns.

    Around the Sun Belt Conference 2010

  • In his account of the harrowing trip, "Voyaging: Southward From the Strait of Magellan," the woodcuts lavishly distributed through the story conspire with his bravura prose to refresh the derivation of "straitened" circumstances and convey the "spirit-stirring glamour of the terrible."

    Fury and Terror On the High Seas Geoffrey Wolff 2011

  • We are really tired of being in 50th place, said Linda Southward, a social science research professor at Mississippi State University.

    National child welfare survey examines recession 2011

  • The nation's African-American population continued its southward migration over the past decade, shifting a large part of the black middle class from northern states to faster-growing economies of the South.

    South Draws U.S. Blacks Conor Dougherty 2011

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