landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a landward breeze. From Dictionary.com.
O sweet it was in Avès to hear the landward breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
I made my way up, and about to the landward entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
A boom shook the ship, had them all whirling landward. From Wordnik.com. [Perish The Thought] Reference
The rising tide, encouraged by the wind, pushes landward. From Wordnik.com. [equilibrium] Reference
Defy the landward tempest's roar, and defy the seaward breeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Once the dunes were gained, their landward side was sheltered. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Presently the tossing cask was visible, drifting rapidly landward. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Meanwhile, on the landward side of our vessel -- which had rounded. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
With the first dawn of the day, came heaving and hurrying landward. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Then an inch of the rope came landward, as the broncho strained upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Argile -- burgh or landward -- the best bred and gentlest of them, I mean. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
To obviate this a screen has been placed on the landward side of the lantern. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Rise around it the heights that bound our landward gaze from the seaboard here. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
On the landward side, the insidious approach of the devouring sand is well marked. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
Salter's idea is that a cool, moisture-heavy cloud will form and be blown landward. From Wordnik.com. [Sky High] Reference
Bay, but without success; with a like result I tried to unearth the landward lines. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
"Let us get away from this place!" said Croyden, and they sauntered along landward. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
For long the landward clans looked upon the incomers to it as foreign and unfriendly. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
English Channel, where the ships make landward to signal the observers at St. Catherine's Point. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
There we were crowded into flat-bottomed, lug-sailed boats for a third stage of our landward journey. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
The peninsula's landward side was contained by a high stone wall, pierced with gates and guarded by sentries. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
A lone, wrinkled fisherman, rolling lazily on the mighty heave of the incoming tide, turned his head landward. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
She is nearing the port, and many are the anxious, weary faces that turn landward with a sigh upon their lips. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
The sea fogs had pitched their tents to landward, and their misty battalions were driving gray across the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The fortification comprises two tiers of casemates surmounted by a parapet, and on the landward side barbette batteries. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
The bay, which is crossed by a fine bridge at its narrow landward extremity, is the headquarters of a fishing fleet, and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Gaelic sermon (or Irish sermon, as the Scots called it) was but every second Sabbath, and on the blank days the landward. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Imagine a cloud of ocean mist growing above the waves, rising up into the sky, drifting landward on a gentle headwind. From Wordnik.com. [Sky High] Reference
Thus, half reclining, I steered landward till midnight, when I took in the sail and lay-to on the calm ocean till morning. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
After landing with my detachment of twenty-two men, we turned our faces landward to find the army then moving towards Richmond. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
"Monitor's" light draught steamed up the Roads, and anchored his ship in the shallow water to landward of the stranded "Minnesota.". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
It came from the landward-looking or highroad side of the house -- about two points on the starboard bow, as old Crump would have said. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
They also provided a dark backdrop, partially hiding the flames on the landward side but undoubtedly making them more visible from the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
A sullen roar of distant thunder broke on her ears, as if the gods were speaking from the mountains, looming landward past the Temple city. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The star-shaped fort is reached down a dirt track running through olive groves and the imposing entrance is surrounded on the landward side by lush vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Portugal's Alluring Hideaways] Reference
Distance and uncertainty of aim saved us from much loss by these projectiles, but their shriek and elongated form astonished our landward men, who called them lamp posts. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
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