"Due south" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an unusually fine day for the time of year, and as they passed along the Grand Parade—which faced due south—they felt quite warm. The Parade was crowded with richly dressed and bejewelled loafers, whose countenances in many instances bore unmistakable signs of drunkenness and gluttony. Some of the females had tried to conceal the ravages of vice and dissipation by coating their faces ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... this time their course must have long been almost due south along the coast of the new kingdom of Leon, and province of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr
... the door in the outer shell of the prospector, I set out upon my quest. Due south I traveled, across lovely ...
— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... out cavalry. About six o'clock the Lancers had again ascended to the top of El Taib, a hill from which at that hour I was enabled to get a view of the dervish camp. It appeared to be about ten miles due south. The Mahdists were disposed in three long dense lines, at almost right angle to the river. They were partly hidden among the low scrub west of Kerreri town or village, their right being quite 2000 yards from the ...
— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh
... Molodetchno, while the Germans were squeezed out of that which they had made to the north. They were driven out of Vileika, and gradually the lines were straightened and stabilized so as to run almost due south from Dvinsk by Postavy, Lake Narotch, and Smorgon. Other factors than Ruszky's brilliant strategy contributed to this dramatic defeat of the final German effort of the campaign to annihilate the Russian forces. The ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard
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