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  • Westward from the lake stretched the grass-lands, and here were multitudes of bison and wild cattle.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • Westward from the lake stretched the grass-lands, and here were multitudes of bison and wild cattle.

    Chapter XII 1906

  • The day before her school closes for spring break, the fourth-grade class wraps up a history unit called Westward Ho this time, the ho in question is someone else with a party.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • The day before her school closes for spring break, the fourth-grade class wraps up a history unit called Westward Ho this time, the ho in question is someone else with a party.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • [The citie Tebris or Tauris] Foure dayes iourney to the Westward is the citie Tebris in olde time called Tauris, the greatest citie in Persia, but not of such trade of merchandise as it hath bene, or as others be at this time, by meane of the great inuasion of the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Foure dayes iourney to the Westward is the citie Tebris in olde time called

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • 'Westward' is no Hellenic goddess: she is a vivid and self-reliant

    A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories William Dean Howells 1878

  • The CIA's role was as a limitless supplier of arms and cash only. alQaeda had argued that the Islamic Revolution of Afghanistan must be advanced "Westward" as well as Southeastward into India.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • "I mean that we have no sort of sympathy in Europe; and yet here you are, embodying in your conception of 'Westward' the arrogant faith of the days when our destiny seemed universal union and universal dominion.

    A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories William Dean Howells 1878

  • Now, the opening line of the blurb for Westward IV refers to the villainous railway owner as "patriarchal".

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

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