The Tsars used them to push the frontiers of Russia southwards and east, through Siberia and as far as the Pacific Ocean.
Cossacks: The Cowboys of Crimea|Kamil Tchorek|March 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We complied, and they rode off southwards, Abu Dahook returning to his camp.
Byeways in Palestine|James Finn
The 24th we saw a fleet of sixty or eighty frigates or barks bound to the southwards, being in lat.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX.|Robert Kerr
Southwards and south-west were the mining villages of the Lens district with their huge conical fosses.
The Seventh Manchesters|S. J. Wilson
Southwards, beyond the clustered roofs of the Terreno, the Mediterranean ripples away towards the African coast.
The Fortunate Isles|Mary Stuart Boyd
But the way on Southwards from there would have been a gamble with the chances of success against us.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
southwards
southward
/ (ˈsaʊθwədz, nauticalˈsʌðədz) /
adverb
towards the south
Words nearby southwards
South Tyrol, South Vietnam, South Vietnamese, southward, southwardly, southwards, Southwark, Southwell, southwest, South West Africa, southwest by south