Adverb : a storm moving seaward. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a seaward course. ,a seaward wind. From Dictionary.com.
Then she had turned and was going seawards again at. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
It was as though some vast blanket were being thrown seawards. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
And here she is joined by other sacred rivers running seawards. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Everyone looked seawards; soon shouts of rapture greeted a sail. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Lieut. Upton was immediately put in charge of her and ordered seawards. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
The thunder passed away seawards, drawing the valley moisture in its train. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
One thing was certain - which was that all French eyes were glued seawards. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
She stepped forth, and found herself in the midst of a crowd gazing, horror-stricken, seawards. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] 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
She stood gazing seawards for some minutes, and then turned and walked slowly across the rippled sand. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor's Lass] Reference
No more possible prizes were sighted, and the time came when keen eyes no longer looked seawards at all. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Sinaitic sea-chain of mountains begins to decline into mere hills, while longer sand-points project seawards. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
This next crossing was wider and looked deeper, the moon-sheened water swirling menacingly as it swept seawards. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Regiment]
She had grown strangely quiet and passive, and she folded her hands and looked off seawards in a not unhappy way. From Wordnik.com. [Mae Madden] Reference
Now it is dark and we must wait for morning before lifting the buoy we lowered today and proceeding seawards. —. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
At ten miles we came to a small salt water stream, running seawards; in passing up it to look for a crossing place. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
Beyond the boats, seawards, were rocks outcropping and strange birds like pelicans standing in silhouette, motionless. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
As soon as she began the downward scramble seawards, she realised that it was not going to be too difficult, after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
On the east side there is a big Moro bungalow, erected on small tree-trunks, quite a hundred yards from the beach seawards. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The banks were miles apart, but, the tide being out, a turbid current was distinguishable, flowing in great volume seawards. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
It is further recommended that the intensive use zone be extended seawards by 1,000m to allow passage and anchorage of boats. From Wordnik.com. [Komodo National Park, Indonesia] Reference
No doubt a log of driftwood, bumping its way along the side of the yacht, as logs will, as the ebbing tide carried it seawards. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
That morning, coming back late from its all-night fishing, a trawler turned seawards to dodge the huge waterspout heading for it. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn Maze]
After remaining some years in Ireland, Mr. O'Doherty sailed far away seawards once again, and took up his abode under the light of the. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
The quarantine-ground, with its grand view of the mountains inland, ends seawards in the Pharos that commands an horizon of blue water. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
The centre of the island consists of a great platform, surrounded by old broken basaltic mountains, with their strata dipping seawards. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
He dived again and swam out seawards, surfaced once more for an instant to check his direction, and swam on till his gas was all used up. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
Heavy storms gathered to seawards with much thunder and lightning, but no rain fell near us; the sea appearing to attract all the showers. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
The cove is evidently a partly submerged crater, the submerged rim of the crater is almost a perfect semi-circle seawards — having on it. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
But the purr of the engine outside her cottage, and the long beams of light flung seawards by the headlights, brought her quickly to the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
In 1852 I had arrived at 'Arabeh from Nabloos by a different route, and turned from this place not seawards as now, but inland to Jeneen: whence. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
All eyes were upon us, and remained, as I felt, upon me, even when a breathless nursery-maid had retrieved Edward and borne him seawards once more. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920] Reference
Farther north the coast becomes straighter, with the one indentation of Port Durnford in 1° 10 'S., but skirted seawards by a row of small islands. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Besides the town and the famous Hoe there could be seen, seawards, Drake's or St. Nicholas 'Island, the famous Breakwater, and the still more famous. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
We usually dive very low on to the harbor and then sheer off seawards at our maximum ceiling and so escape relatively quickly out of the range of the defense. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
Louvaine crouched, head turned seawards, gazing after them with straining eyes, paying no further heed to his words, given up to the pitiful remnants of her hope. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
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