Thence the trains eastward run frequently to Chicago and New York.
Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward he would, on the contrary, have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction, that is, westward.
The barren saddles of the Famara massif stretch out eastward like elongated arms, the valle de Temisa forming a steep-sided U.
In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees in this direction.
The ship was no longer visible, having drifted away, apparently to the eastward.
From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
In other words, while Phileas Fogg, going eastward, saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian seventy-nine times.
The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting-point, extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha.
As it rose above the tree line, the intensity of its light threw the woodland into relative shadow, making it almost impossible for any guard who might be scanning eastward for signs of life to see more than a few yards into the forest.
During the day she skirted Long Island, passed Fire Island, and directed her course rapidly eastward.
