THE Mongol horsemen had swept westward from what is now Russia into Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany.
The British Proclamation of 1763, the war of 1812, geological barriers and the lack of modern-day transportation all provided resistance against westward migration.
As London expanded westward from the City and northward from Whitehall, the aristocratic estates of west London were speculatively developed into the set of Georgian streets and squares that characterize much of the so-called West End.
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward.
The muddy water of Soochow Creek, transformed to a golden green, flowed quietly westward.
It is difficult to predict the track of typhoon moving westward and turning northward in the South China Sea.
It is a popular misconception that the Conestoga wagon played a role in the great westward migration towards territories like Oregon and California during the 19th century.
China's leading online game developer, Changyou, is now looking westward.
The journey took months and first brought him to Moscow, then westward.
Since the initial reports, the Russian H5N1 outbreak in poultry, which has remained confined to Siberia, has spread progressively westward to affect 6 administrative regions.
For decades Americans have followed the sun westward.
As we circle to head westward toward the mainland, I can see the unofficial flag of Newfoundland still flying over the harbour.
Pang De, who had gotten hold of a boat, tried to escape westward. The boat, however, was knocked down by Zhou Cang's raft and Pang De was captured alive.
After the Japanese Resistance War broke out, the Nationalist government moved westward to Chongqing in 1937, and coastal industrial enterprises also successively moved inward.
Satellite imagery indicated that dust from the Sahara is spreading westward.
It is what led generations of pioneers to blaze a westward trail.
Believing that Asia could be reached by traveling westward, Columbus's three-ship expedition set sail from Palos, Spain, in 1492.
However, he subsequently obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve the Spanish Crown, so that he could try to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.
America's westward expansion went hard on the California sea otter, which seemed to vanish in the first half of the 19th century, an unlucky victim of the fur trade.
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