Adjective : a landward breeze. From Dictionary.com.
Before sundown he saw the tall figure of the sorceress wending landwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
The Kingsdown men were keenly watching the approaching catastrophe as the Glendura came landwards. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Both men were now sitting erect, looking to right, to left, seawards, landwards, towards the hills. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
That dark, dreary horizon we just discern to the left is the West Bay, terminated landwards by the Chesil. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
"It flows to Smuggler's Rock," said Andy, "but we swing landwards before we get there, to the Cliff of Birds.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventurous Four Again]
One large vessel, the ship Glendura, having parted her anchors in the great sea that was running, was driving landwards. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
“It is all over with us,” the captain cried in desperation; he had pointed his telescope landwards, and saw not a sign from the shore. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman of Thirty] Reference
As they worked away from the shore there came in, borne landwards and towards them by the gale, the dull deep roar of the surf on the Goodwins. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
When the tiger goes on a fishing expedition, what it usually does is to catch large fishes from shallow streams and throw them landwards far from the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Lemanus (Hythe), a spit of shingle, whose bay, north-east and south-west, forms an inner lagoon, bounded landwards by conspicuous and weather-tarnished red cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Between her and the land would be about 100 fathoms, or 200 yards of water; but that water was one furious mass of advancing billows hurled landwards by this great tempest. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Came the suppliants landwards trembling as they trod. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.] Reference
The day was not very bright, and mist spoiled the view landwards. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Look landwards from the water -- purple Apennines are ever in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
While at Bellegra, this afternoon, I gazed landwards to where, in the. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
He raised one of his brown, hairy hands, and jerked a thumb landwards. From Wordnik.com. [Ravensdene Court] Reference
He held the old lady aloft, on one arm, shouting, as he pointed landwards. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
We are open to the S.E. winds, though these blow over the bank from landwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter] Reference
Then Mrs. Cosgrove took leave of them, and walked landwards with her companions. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
He turned away, and, looking from Helena landwards, he said, smiling peculiarly. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Nevertheless a temporary landwards counter bombardment scheme was worked out and both. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Instead, however, he paused at the corner of the building with his face turned landwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanished Messenger] Reference
Iris to carry the remaining two in like manner, and began to manoeuvre the raft landwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Wings of the Morning] Reference
Then he had wandered on, past the storm-bent tree at the turn of the road pointing landwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrayal] Reference
That dark, dreary horizon we just discern to the left is the West Bay, terminated landwards by the. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
What then were these masses which floated landwards, rising and falling with the undulations of the waves?. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
Behold our flag is flying! it waveth landwards aloft: in Mark's ancestral castle may our approach be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Tristan und Isolde] Reference
The tunnel is to be excavated thirty-five feet below the bed of the lake, and to have four feet of dip landwards. From Wordnik.com. [A Contract for the Construction of a Tunnel] Reference
Turkish reinforcements, wafted landwards by a favouring breeze, were landed in time to wrest the ramparts from the assailants 'grip. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference
And he stopped and looked landwards, where the indistinct grey blur was beginning to take the pattern of fields and cliffs and beach. From Wordnik.com. [By Berwen Banks] Reference
"It is all over with us," the captain cried in desperation; he had pointed his telescope landwards, and saw not a sign from the shore. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman of Thirty] Reference
It was as if this was the primeval ooze from which the first life stirred and crawled landwards to begin to make this a memorable star. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
There was a sure hiding-place from all human reproach and heavy mortal woe beneath the rushing waters borne landwards by the morning tide. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3] Reference
"And look yonder!" cried Peter, pointing landwards in great excitement; "see those long red lines drawn up on shore!. From Wordnik.com. [French and English A Story of the Struggle in America] Reference
A-drifting landwards on a spar. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Childhood] Reference
Just then a shout was heard landwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole] Reference
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