I added a water plane to the scene and sloped the terrain downwards to form a coastline. From Wordnik.com. [Even more Simplex Noise : KillerCodingNinjaBunny] Reference
All fiction from the novels in the mushroom libraries downwards is censored in the interests of the ruling class. From Wordnik.com. [Boys' Weeklies] Reference
A great deal of talk about us; but it is just like London, we are building downwards from the intellectuals. From Wordnik.com. [Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography] Reference
Presently the corridor began to slope "downwards" again until once more it had turned through a right-angle. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Fall Of Night]
In the model you mention of passing on, the comments will be passed "downwards" from high impact journals to low impact journals. From Wordnik.com. [Public Rambling] Reference
Using the inverting root, mal, you get malsupren = "downwards". From Wordnik.com. [elzr] Reference
He said bullying could take many forms, although it was mostly "downwards", carried out by managers and supervisors on more junior staff. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Nothing was working, and every vital sign was heading downwards. From Wordnik.com. [Aaron E. Carroll: It's the 'Life' in End-of-Life That Matters] Reference
Staying in or hitting town-wards, from the top and working downwards. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Downey Jr. Is Back In 'Iron Man 2'] Reference
But maybe a dog in print is regression for a dog, a movement downwards. From Wordnik.com. [I A Dog] Reference
His face is turned downwards, while she leans toward him with her face upturned. From Wordnik.com. [Eden Abergil Facebook Pictures: Israeli Soldier's Photos Cause Outrage] Reference
This trend has now ended, and a new trend is emerging -- downwards for the president. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- July, 2010] Reference
When it bursts the full force of the explosion is distributed downwards and laterally. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
I pushed downwards with my arms, floating up toward the surface of the exquisite water. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrimage] Reference
The champagne splashed up and then downwards, down his arm and onto his white dress shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Volume] Reference
But, by doing so, his approval numbers continued their gradual slide downwards this month. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- Scraping Fifty Percent] Reference
Is there a being – or a force – unseen that drives us onwards, be it upwards or downwards?. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend songs about fate and destiny: the results] Reference
This cavity resembles a cone in shape that is cut obliquely downwards and forward at its base. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
His approval rating continued its trend of moving downwards, but only by two-tenths of a percent. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2010] Reference
Every valley in the Ladakh range of the Himalaya saw high mountains dislodge themselves downwards. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account] Reference
“What shall we do with the old man?” asked Mary, as his pistol was pointed downwards, as usual. From Wordnik.com. [Fragment of an Early Novel of the 21st Century] Reference
But Obama's approval numbers did manage to rise this month, which stops a nine-month slide downwards. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- March, 2010] Reference
However, the Scarecrow's broomhandle somehow got pointed downwards, and he headed very fast for the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
Undaunted, she caressed her index finger downwards and began to trail the creases and wrinkles across his palm. From Wordnik.com. [Death Masking Love] Reference
Nor indeed can we imagine two contrary motions in any capillary system -- the chyle upwards, the blood downwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
To some extent this will be an outlier, but it is part of a continuing downwards trend in the government's approval rating. From Wordnik.com. [Politics live blog - Tuesday 14 September] Reference
THE THIRD OR DISTAL DIGITAL BONE may be compared to a cone that has been cut away posteriorly, obliquely downwards and backwards. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
This would cause, in practice, the centre portion of the envelope to sag downwards, while the ends would have a tendency to rise. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
Upon the mouthful being received, it is forced downwards by the transverse muscles, and then carried farther by the longitudinal ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Glistening sinewy strands gravitate downwards like thermometer mercury escaped - between breasts where the heart beats and almost lives. From Wordnik.com. [Pineapple Breakfast] Reference
She was very hungry because it was so late, her stomach trembled, and she could feel what she swallowed passing downwards with her spine. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Autumn] Reference
Because that general upward trend is, of course, for Bush's disapproval numbers, and that steady slide downwards is his approval numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch [August 2009] -- Obama's Base Support Erodes] Reference
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