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  • “Can you imagine Shreveport having north-south and east-and-west interstates and Red River navigation and a diagonal highway?” he said, referring to the existing I-20, the ongoing construction of I-49 from New Orleans through Shreveport to Kansas City, and, of course, I-69.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • Its apex was almost a mile from the point of divergence of an east-and-west line.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Its apex was almost a mile from the point of divergence of an east-and-west line.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Its apex was almost a mile from the point of divergence of an east-and-west line.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Its apex was almost a mile from the point of divergence of an east-and-west line.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Its apex was almost a mile from the point of divergence of an east-and-west line.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • He had been accosted, at the end of a cruise around the magnificent natural harbour of Cochin, to which Vasco da Gama had come in search of spices and so set in motion the whole ambiguous history of east-and-west, by an urchin full of pssts and hey-mister -- okays.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Leadenhall Street, the banking center of the City of London, runs almost due east-and-west; Fenchurch Street makes a forty-five degree angle with it at the western end, running southwest for a bit and then curving toward the west, toward Lombard.

    The Penal Cluster Randall Garrett 1957

  • From the human point of view, the profound difference between the northern and the southern group of these grasslands, which collectively lie athwart the great east-and-west mountain zone of the Old World, is this.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

  • Cheapside (chep'sid), the central east-and-west street of London, formerly

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

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