"Eastward" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... small sun disappeared beneath the horizon even as he looked, leaving the fast-darkening sky a dull, faint red. Almost as though released by the sunset, pale Phobos popped above the horizon and began to climb its eastward way. The desert already was dark, but a stirring above it bespoke a ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... ship brought into the fleet by the Aquilon left us and stood to the eastward. She was bound to Hull, and was part of a Dutch convoy, most of which had been taken and destroyed by the ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... lover's breast, to join them, in their revellings. Upon the broad bank of the old South Shore they sat,—a favorite resort of the youth and maidens of this little island of a mid-summer's eve,—old Sankoty to the eastward, lifting high his head, imparting a flood of radiance in pity to thousands, who watch with an intensity, to make the well-known light, rejoicing no less when they have left it far behind, for well do they realize that they have passed one of the most dangerous shoals to be found ...
— Natalie - A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds • Ferna Vale
... Alabama. His force will consist of about twenty thousand men, besides A. J. Smith's command. The cavalry you have sent to Canby will be debarked at Vicksburg. It, with the available cavalry already in that section, will move from there eastward, in co-operation. Hood's army has been terribly reduced by the severe punishment you gave it in Tennessee, by desertion consequent upon their defeat, and now by the withdrawal of many of them to oppose Sherman. (I take it a large portion of the infantry has been so withdrawn. It is so ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... eastward through the quiet streets, prepared at every cross street for anything to happen. To the south a monster conflagration was filling the sky, and we knew that the great ghetto was burning. At last I sank down ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
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