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Leu-Leu is to the south'ard somewhere, and this section of ocean is all blank.
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By eleven the stuff began making up ominously in the south'ard.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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A night of calm, when sleep is well-nigh impossible in the sultry, muggy air, may be followed by a day of blazing sun and an oily swell from the south'ard, connoting great gales in that area of ocean we are sailing toward -- or all day long the Elsinore, under an overcast sky, royals and sky sails furled, may plunge and buck under wind-pressure into a short and choppy head-sea.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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"The wind's shifting around to the south'ard, and we ought to lie easier!"
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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Then with taut line we carefully move to the south'ard until we are about opposite the fish.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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Then with taut line we carefully move to the south'ard until we are about opposite the fish.
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Full crowded under royals to the south'ard we would sweep;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 Various
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"The gale has completely blown itself out, and there's only a little cat's-paw of a breeze from the south'ard."
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"I think, from the scud, we shall have wind from the south'ard, Bill."
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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One evenin ', -- I reckon we was ten miles to the south'ard of Boon Island, -- it was my trick at the wheel, and all hands had turned in.
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