How To Use Eastward In A Sentence
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Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa.
D. Africa, 500-1500
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The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
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The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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But a broader change is under way as the economic centre of gravity shifts eastwards.
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Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
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If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward.
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Over that time frame, the European Union's eastward expansion will place Berlin at the heart of the continent.
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Eastward lay what seemed like pointless desert and unpopulated towns.
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The vent site was then translated northeastward by the motion of the Farallon Plate and was subsequently accreted to its present location.
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Speeding along the route of the ancient Silk Road, we passed between irrigated fields of melons, cabbages and sunflowers, part of the great oasis stretching eastwards from Tashkent.
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The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
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Separate ice fields also encroached from the North Sea, driving eastwards through what is now the Vale Of Pickering and covering much of the East Yorkshire plain, leaving the moors and wolds as isolated highlands.
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The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In particular, one very strong supercell thunderstorm moved southeastward across portions of Stanley, Jones, and Lyman counties.
Hailaceous: South Dakota hailstone breaks record
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Rationally is a northeastwardly unproved liquescent in grocery, and when avirulent with the imprisoned longanimity, backrest to ideogram a overnight dyspeptic gynura.
Rational Review
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Desert land stretches eastward across Arabia into Central Asia.
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The prevailing winds and currents forced all ships returning to Europe or the Americas from the Ivory and Gold Coasts to pass eastward toward the Slave Coast and close to the shores of Efik lands.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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The day after his address, a report of the select committee recommending a detailed survey of a 119 mile expansion westward from Porus to Montego Bay and north-eastward from Bog Walk to Port Antonio was presented before the council.
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Voters in Hungary have agreed to be part of the historic eastward expansion of the European Union, strongly endorsing economic unification with their more developed neighbours to the west.
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As the cloud is moving off eastwards there are no rain clouds blocking its way so clear weather ensues.
The Sun
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Other coincidences include but are not limited to: 1. The Tule culture which spread eastward from Northern Alaska, across the Arctic Archipelago about 1,000 years ago and then later disappeared.
Rutherford, Mann et al [2005] « Climate Audit
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During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor.
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So much for the western line; in the Portillo pass, proceeding eastward, we meet an immense mass of conglomerate, dipping to the west 45 deg, which rest on micaceous sandstone, etc., etc., upheaved and converted into quartz-rock penetrated by dykes from the very grand mass of protogine (large crystals of quartz, red feldspar, and occasional little chlorite).
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
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Imbricated clasts indicate eastward palaeocurrents away from the metamorphic complex.
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Note 1: Taken from the observations of Father Baudoin, a Recollet priest who accompanied French forces in their campaigns out of Placentia eastwards and northwards along the English Shore in 1696 and 1697.
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With a very moist air mass ahead of this from the Gulf of Mexico, an eastwards moving line of severe thunderstorms was generated across the Mississippi Valley.
Weatherwatch: Blizzards in Bucharest, tornadoes in Arkansas
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The Hughes intersected the River Scheldt and altered course eastward, the roadstead and Port of Antwerp growing on the horizon.
CORMORANT
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She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
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A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.
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'Ye can almost see my bit biggin', 'said Si, as he halted and pointed eastward of Larriston Fell to a patch of black peat and heather high on the rolling moorland.
Border Ghost Stories
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He trotted the animal across the broken, empty landscape, skirting Toh-Chin-Lini Butte, moving southeastward toward the Ceniza saddle.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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When he sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere he was surprised to find them blown away by powerful high-altitude winds sweeping eastwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Wednesday, a line of supercell thunderstorms moved eastwards over Germany and Austria, then continued across the Czech Republic and Poland overnight.
Weatherwatch: global round-up
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Visitors looking eastward can gaze upon the dead trees poking from beneath the surface of Earthquake Lake, the lake that formed behind the rockslide.
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Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
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The most usual track of these disturbances is across the West Indian islands, after which they curve north or northeastwards.
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The eastward or southeastward mantle flow resulting from the collision of IndiaEurasia probably pushed rollback of slabs east and southeast to East Asian continent, further causing back arc spreading.
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Indeed, many of the mesopelagic species range far eastward with the Gulf Stream, outside our area and into the eastern Atlantic.
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AT ONE O'CLOCK they saw a little town in the distance, nestling on a cliff that looked down eastward on the purple Pacific.
DESPERADOES
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Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
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Arakny glanced eastward where the sun just edged above the horizon.
A Plague of Angels
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the river flows southeastward to the gulf
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On the other side, in East Africa, the eastward pressure of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, combined with the opposite forces generated by the impact of India, created enormous stresses.
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I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
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Leaders of the former communist countries awaiting EU membership cheered Ireland's decision to endorse the EU's eastward expansion.
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Rob '. - wyard Wright of sajd Boston marriner, A parcell of Edw: cartwright grouud in the sajd Boston wit' 'a dwelling house thereupon by the sajd Wyard newly erected, the sajd Ground bounded wit' 'the Land of Thomas Shetieild Eastward, wit* "the Land of Samuell Mayo South - ward, wit' '
Suffolk deeds
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Further, due to changing environmental flow pattern, the system (Phet) would move slowly in a northwesterly/northerly direction for next 24 hours and cross Oman coast by tomorrow (June 4) morning," they said, adding, "It would then weaken gradually, recurve northeastwards and emerge into north Arabian Sea by June 5 and move towards Pakistan coast.
The Times of India
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A two-storey semi-circular arc of accommodation embraces a green public space which looks south-eastwards over the river to the endless landscape.
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The lack of fresh water here forced him to sail eastward to St Ann's Bay where he stranded the ships side by side a bow's shot from the shore.
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Moving eastwards, we come to Germany which, in all honesty, I know very little about.
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From there northeastward, the coastal landscape is a part of the northern extension of the Appalachian Mountain system.
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The estimate made by Eusebio, however, of the trend or direction of the calisaya groves, induced him to forsake the bed of the Cconi, and strike south-eastwardly, so as to cross the Ollachea and the Ayapata.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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She stood and chivied herself up the seam to the tiny vertical opening at its peak, from which she gazed westward, northward, eastward, and at last she saw it—a tiny spot of white far to the south, growing larger with each passing minute.
Aching for Always
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Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
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Heavy rain sweeping eastwards across the south.
The Sun
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Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert.
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We sheltered behind the great beams supporting the windmill, and looked out through them, north and east, over a wide landscape; a plain bordered eastward by low hills, every mile of it, almost, watered by
England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
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Desert land stretches eastward across Arabia into Central Asia.
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Along the storms' eastward track, avalanches killed two people on Saturday in Utah, authorities said.
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The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume.
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Is then this a fellow fit to be believed when he writes of any man or city, who in one word deprives Greece of the victory, throws down the trophy, and pronounces the inscriptions they had set up to Diana Proseoa (EASTWARD-FACING) to be nothing but pride and vain boasting?
Essays and Miscellanies
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Geometry dominates, for the axial symmetry of the Barry building is extended eastwards.
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The south-eastern cyclone moved eastward.
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Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
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An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o droid surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o mettalic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel.
Archive 2004-09-01
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These colonization directions included: (i) southwestwards, with a relatively gradual range expansion during suitable periods in Western Europe; and (ii) northeastwards, with a more irregular expansion in Central and Eastern Europe.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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They were flying steadily eastwards, deeper into enemy territory.
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He stole a horse and left the town to relocate seemingly at random to different towns along a eastwardly course.
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Where the fields go wild and grow into brakes, and the soil becomes fenny, on the north-western edge of Grande Pointe, a dark, slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly north-eastward into a swamp of huge cypresses.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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The area is drained by several major rivers: the Welland and the Nene which flow north-eastwards to the Wash; the Avon running south-westwards to join the Severn; and the Sence running north to join the Trent.
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The Route Coloniale, which was the one I followed, has its beginning at Kep, on the Gulf of Siam, runs north-eastward through the jungles of Cambodia to Pnom-Penh, and, recommencing at
Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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This morning, I was alerted to a few tweets worried about a potentially bad low pressure system moving eastward that could become a nor'easter and damage the Eastern Seaboard Sunday into Sunday night.
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The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location.
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Two miles (3 km) eastward from the shore lies a chain of deep and narrow ponds, eight miles long (13 km), of an average width of three-quarters of a mile, and covering an area of 3,500 acres (14 km²).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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This range, which runs from Chichester eastward as far as East Bourn, is about sixty miles in length, and is called the South Downs, properly speaking, only round Lewes.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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With a last glance at the unhappy man to whom I had grown attached in a way during our time of joint captivity and trial, I took the arm of the old Hottentot, or rather leant upon his shoulder, for at first I felt too weak to walk by myself, and picked my path with him through the stones and skeletons of elephants across the plateau eastwards, that is, away from the lake.
The Ivory Child
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When a visitor stands in the center of the trail and scans eastward across the tops of a myriad of purple meadow rue, old witch grass, big blue stem, and wild raspberries and plum, ‘natural history’ becomes visually literal.
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I think at this point she turned around and headed eastwards, towards home, towards safety.
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The developing El Nino continues its eastward trek in the Pacific Ocean.
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Strong northwesterly winds followed as the low cleared eastward.
Times, Sunday Times
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This track is shaped like a rounded cone, or, more often, like a boomerang, with a short arm running north-westwards to its place of turning and a long arm running northeastwards until its force is spent.
Plotting in Pirate Seas
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The jet stream is a ribbon of fast wind a few miles high that sweeps eastwards around the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Early in the week, patchy rain will slowly clear southeastwards to allow some drier, brighter weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
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It has been suggested that a central authority should construct huge reservoirs on the Ganga and Brahmaputra and link these two mighty rivers with canals, thereby diverting surplus waters south-eastwards into the Mahanadi.
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Yellowlegs, yelper, willet, marlin, dough bird, stilt, and avocet are often common, but they do not begin to be as plentiful as they are in the more fertile lands to the eastward, and the ranchmen never shoot at them or follow them as game birds.
II. Waferfowl
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The recent eastward expansion of the European Union has only compounded the social crisis.
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A weakening front will bring a spell of rain southeastwards midweek, followed by a dip in temperatures.
Times, Sunday Times
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I manoeuvred the heavy horsebox carefully through the small village and set off northeastwards on the road over the Downs, retracing the way I had come from London.
Forfeit
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Saleh was quite delighted, but we thought any direction would be good for our map and we still had hopes of digging near Meshed, though we began to have fears that a repulse eastward would strengthen the hands of our enemies westward.
Southern Arabia
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Less than half an hour later, they were off, moving at a four-legged lope southeastward.
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The lunar shadow will fall in the Algerian Sahara at 0640 GMT before flitting northeastwards.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Approximately 3,000 red lechwe (Kobus leche), move eastwards from Liuwa Plain to the Zambezi floodplain in the dry season.
Western Zambezian grasslands
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At the end of this year, Mr. Pépy says, the TGV will open a line linking Lyon in central France with Mulhouse near the German border, gateway to the eastward expansion of the European Union.
On a fast track to the future
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Ocean, inclusive of the Bering Sea, which is situated to the north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude and eastward of the one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude from Greenwich till it strikes the water boundary described in Article I of the treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and following that line up to Bering
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
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Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilkham Aliyev, will also sign a border agreement that will delimitate part of the land border that begins where Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia meet and runs eastward to the Caspian Sea.
RIA Novosti
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The extension eastwards, which is given in map E. with this chapter, took place chiefly during the fourteenth century when Rouen was rapidly growing to be the second town in the kingdom.
The Story of Rouen
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That shot from the footplate supposedly heading eastwards was quite definitely taken travelling in the opposite direction.
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Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
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On 19th January 1991, crude oil from five bombed oil tankers moored off the Mina Al-Ahmadi oil terminal and nearby oil pipelines in Kuwait produced a slick extending south-eastwards over 1,500 km².
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Today the rain should clear northeastwards with showers following.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 74-year-old space is open again after a two-year-long project to move it south-eastwards by 66 metres and to completely redecorate it.
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Eastwards, a Permian terrane of greywacke sandstone becomes progressively more highly metamorphosed to become schist which forms the Southern Alps contained within Mount Aspiring National Park.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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The next few days look quiet, with cloud spilling southeastwards and patchy rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Already a blob of warmer Pacific water has started extending south-eastward towards the South American coast and it is this water that is expected to reach Ecuador by the end of the year.
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The south-eastern cyclone moved eastward.
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P. cembra, the Swiss stone pine, has a range which extends eastwards from the Alps; and P. gerardiana is a native of the Himalayas.
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It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
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By cutting patches in the path of the beetles' eastward spread, loggers hope to stall their expansion.
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Eels kept in a garden, when August arrived (the period at which instinct impels them to go to the sea to spawn) were in the habit of leaving the pond and were invariably found moving eastward _in the direction of the sea_.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Burroughs's specter also told Ann Jr. that he had bewitched a great many soldiers to death at the eastward, when Sir Edmon was there.
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But their progress eastwards has tended to be blocked by high pressure over Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best writers in this kind were Middleton and Dekker -- and the best play to read as a sample of it _Eastward Ho! _ in which Marston put off his affectation of sardonical melancholy and joined with Jonson and Dekker to produce what is the masterpiece of the non-Shakespearean comedy of the time.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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They either moved lock, stock and barrel, or expanded their operations eastwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Starting from this idiom, that is to say eastward from the Hungarian frontier, another language prevailed all over the territory in that direction comprised in Europe, and even extended beyond….
The Great Experiment
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A powerful snow storm is moving eastward.
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Thus Hellenism in its eastward course and Buddhisn in its westward march came in direct contact in Gandhara art and worked out artistic sculptures and other art forms.
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The 30 day the winde Southeast, they wayed, and set saile to the Northeastwards: but the ship fell so on the side to the shorewards, that they were forced eftsoones to take in their saile, and ancre againe, from whence they neuer remoued her.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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But just as tobacco once spread from Europe to the Ottoman Empire (thanks to “English infidels,” wrote one Turkish historian), another curse has blown eastward from the civilized West: the smoking ban, due to arrive in Asia Minor on July 19.
Turkish Smoke-Out
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All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.
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The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
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Over the weekend rain will move southeastwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
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In fact, Aleksandrowski et al proposed that the complex was originally contiguous with the Northern Phyllite Zone in Germany and that dextral strike-slip fault movement translated this region southeastward to its present position.
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Inland, most of the rivers run across the flat, fertile Flanders Plain, north-eastward to The Netherlands.
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The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
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Also, a deep low over the Tasman Sea is expected to move southeastwards past Fiordland and Southland overnight, forcing a strong northwesterly flow across much of the South Island.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Although such a track allows the 850 temperatures on both the GFS and Euro to rise above freezing, a slight eastward shift in the track could produce a snowier solution rather than the current one which still offers several inches of snow before mixing and changing to rain.
Potential storm Tues-Wed: more snow or rain?
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The lonely wanderer followed the terrace path eastwards and quickly crossed the old bridge over the River Burien.
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Arctic outbreak to follow Thursday storm: The models are fairly unified in suggesting frigid air will pour southeastward following Thursday's storm whether it's a hit or a miss.
Three possible storms: will any pack a punch?
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For some reason, they determined on migrating to the eastward, and accordingly set out together in a body.
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As he watched and waited there stole down from the fells above him 'oncome' of mist or 'haar' from the eastward, which soon drew a plaid of hodden grey above the shoulder of Shillmoor.
Border Ghost Stories
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Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth - bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland.
To Build A Fire
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Northbound buses start their trips at Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, then proceed: northward along Keele Street; and then westward along Steeles Avenue West to Founders Road, resuming their regular route ** westward along Steeles., from 9: 45 a.m. until 12: 15 p.m., eastbound buses operate along their regular route to Ian Macdonald Boulevard and The Chimneystack Road, then detour: eastward along The Chimneystack; southward along Keele Street; eastward along Canartic Drive; and then northward* along Petrolia Road to Steeles Avenue West, resuming their regular route ** eastward along Steeles.
Transit Toronto - Weblog
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He was riding away to the eastward, as fast as he could make his horse go.
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The goatee is shortened, now, and has an end; formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived nowhere.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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Once the eclipse path moves away from the Asian mainland, it drops sharply southeastward toward the equator.
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The Marlstone Rock Bed is a distinctive limestone unit that outcrops from Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast of southern England, north-eastwards to just west of Hull near the North Sea coast.
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The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
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He slid the metal tube into the inside pocket of his anorak, then set off eastwards along the riverside path.
Times, Sunday Times
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The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
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A powerful snow storm is moving eastward.
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The tendency for approaching cold fronts to approach the Cape and then be steered somewhat south-eastward will persist therefore.
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After another gate, continue to a stream before climbing north-eastwards up the steep slopes of Compass Hill, whose iron content plays havoc with the compass.
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It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Video, and to the eastward, over the mammillated country of
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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In the mean time the wind had been driving the ice so fast off the land as to form for us a clear communication with the open water before seen to the eastward; and thus we were at length liberated from our confinement, after a close and tedious "besetment" of twenty-four days.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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The Okavango River is quite unique in that it is the only perennial river in Africa that flows eastwards without reaching the ocean.
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It was across a mad ocean we tore, for the mounting sea that made from eastward bucked into the West End Drift and battled and battered down the huge south-westerly swell.
CHAPTER XL
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This fence has prevented the eastwards migration of large mammals such as kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) to the eastern Sperregebiet after times of good rain when this area becomes a lush grassland.
Succulent Karoo
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Adriana judged they were moving eastward, by hints of the sun that angled down through the high canopy of branches.
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Eastwards the ridge opened out in a series of bumps, dips and peaks, more like a small range of mountains than one single hill.
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And beyond the vale, eastwards and northwards, Catherine looked out upon a wild sea of moors wrapped in mists, sullen and storm-beaten, while to the left the clouds hung deepest and inkiest over the high points of the Ullswater mountains.
Robert Elsmere
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Ten minutes climbing connects you with our outward and eastward route on what a local thought was Roman road.
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An active cold front swept heavy rain and mountain snow eastwards on Friday with strong winds and blustery, wintry showers between sunny spells yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sand forming these two shoals would ordinarily have been deposited on the East Beach during its eastward drift.
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They continued southeastwards, avoiding towns and roads, until reaching the war zone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eastward lay the Sonoma floodplain, an expanse of diked and drained bay lands, with tidal creeks and sloughs shining in the distance.
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From Central Asia eastward to the Pacific Islands and subcontinents on the one hand, and to America on the other, brachycephaly and orthognathism gradually diminish, and are replaced by dolichocephaly and prognathism, less, however, on the
Essays
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This river of wind blows around the world a few miles high, speeding up and slowing down as it heads eastwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hike eastward is over archetypal downland: breezy, chalky and full of sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our plan was to cruise eastward, taking advantage of the countercurrents along Cuba's south coast.
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A brook, called Bannockburn, running to the eastward, between rocky and precipitous banks, effectually covered the Scottish right wing, which rested upon it, and was totally inaccessible.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
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What had happened ‘at the eastward,’ and what valence did those events retain in Salem?
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A web of rivers flowed eastwards from the Drakensberg mountains to the sea.
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The smaller area south-eastward from the St. Lawrence, including the Maritime Provinces, is chiefly the extension into Canada of the Allegheny Plateau, which though rugged in Gaspe Peninsula, is generally of low elevation in the Maritimes.
Canada Turning the Corner
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After a mild night, tomorrow looks rather wet as another rain band sweeps southeastwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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But from Wigan Road eastwards towards Chorley, no such signs exist and as the road used to be of the national speed limit, viz. 60 mph, many motorists tend to drive at that speed.
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The little finger represents the Keweenaw Peninsula, jutting out northeastwards into Lake Superior.
Strange Maps
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For a few months each year the winds blow easterly, and in those months the ancient Polynesians made eastward voyages of exploration.
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As most of the land in these states drains eastwards, they were assigned to the eastern subregion in Table 1.
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A short time before encamping, I had observed that Lake Torrens was trending more to the eastward, and that when we halted, it was not at any very great distance from us.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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Instead of returning northeastwardly over the mountains, we now turned southeastwardly, in order to reach the Green
A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
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Descend south-eastwards, down the steep heather slopes, taking a route on the western side of the burn.
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But until then, the best way to ride out a Toba eruption is to do so in a place a bit to the eastward, and a bit to the southward (just the other side of the equator).
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There is, therefore, a constant eastward breeze in the air of the outer galleries, and an upflow during the lunar day up the shafts, complicated, of course, very greatly by the varying shape of the galleries, and the ingenious contrivances of the Selenite mind.
First Men in the Moon
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This morning, I was alerted to a few tweets worried about a potentially bad low pressure system moving eastward that could become a nor'easter and damage the Eastern Seaboard Sunday into Sunday night.
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The Great Plains, occupied by the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, are cut through by the eastward flows and have become a great prairie supporting cattle ranching and wheat cultivation.
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To the westward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount, at Monte Video, and to the eastward, over the mammillated country of Maldonado.
Chapter III
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Dolly droned on steadily southeastwards, ig and there was very little to relieve the boredom of the flight.
The Seventh Scroll
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The two source waters of the cold fresh Arctic water and the warm salty Atlantic water form a cyclonic gyre which is closed in its southern section at approximately 72°N by the eastward-flowing current.
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This new speed limit, perhaps 40 mph, needs to extend about one mile eastward from the roundabout at the easterly end of the present bypass.
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The eastward movement of the low-pressure convection area results in drought conditions in Australia, Indonesia, Africa, and India.
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which we made by order of your majesty, in addition to the 92 degrees which we ran towards the west from our point of departure, before we reached land in latitude 34, we have to count 300 leagues which we ran northeastwardly and 400 nearly east, along the coast, before we reached the 50th parallel of north latitude, the point where we turned our course from the shore towards home.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
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Many practices that were part of pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism, such as communion in one kind for the laity and eastward-facing celebrations, have not died out, as Anglicans sometimes think.
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Across the mountains from Fort Macpherson, and a couple of hundred miles eastward from the Mackenzie, he built a cabin and established his headquarters.
The Gold Hunters of the North
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It was 4am when we pulled out of the harbour and headed eastwards towards our first dive site.
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Tuesday will see a band of rain sweep eastwards, followed by showers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The warm water and air masses move eastward across the equatorial region, until they reach the west coast of the Americas.
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Bowles' handling of the ship made the view eastward visible.
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The current sets strongly eastwards.
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The bed of the river was formed by talc-schiste, in strata, the strike of which was from north by west to south by east, standing almost perpendicular, with a slight dip to the eastward.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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They remain true to character, with Nixon sentimentally reminiscing about flipping burgers in the Pacific and Mao pugnaciously recalling riding eastward to conquer Beijing.
Titans Shaking Hands, But Still Worlds Apart
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The eastward mountains, which had been grey, blushed pale pink, the pink deepened into rose, and the rose into crimson, and then all solidity etherealized away and became clear and pure as an amethyst, while all the waving ranges and the broken pine-clothed ridges below etherealized too, but into a dark rich blue, and a strange effect of atmosphere blended the whole into one perfect picture.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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At the same time, the Iranian revolution closed off an important route for drug smugglers, who began transporting locally produced heroin eastward through the Khyber Pass and down to the port of Karachi.
The Lawless Frontier
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President's range crosses it, everything is fused -- burned; and at the distance of seventy miles northeastwardly from the Bay of San Francisco, a spur comes off with a lofty peak, which pours out immense quantities of lava, and shoots up a flame so broad and bright as to be seen at sea, and to produce distinct shadows at eighty miles 'distance.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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Los Angeles itself grows by accretion, creeping eastward through the San Gorgonio Pass along the line of the San Andreas Fault, bulldozing further and further into the Mojave Desert.
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Long-tailed mounds extend eastward to Juneau County on the Wisconsin River and were very common throughout glaciated eastern Wisconsin.
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Desert land stretches eastward across Arabia into Central Asia.