sunwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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And who shall name the monarch who filled the throne of Britain when this vast field broke away from the main and started on its stealthy navigation sunwards?
From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
The appearance of hundreds of these creatures, each eighteen inches long, sitting like dogs begging, with their paws down and all turned sunwards, is most grotesque.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
And oh, my world, my world, it is with you I go round sunwards, and you make my evenings and mornings, and will, till Time shuts his wings over us!
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
Before Tintoretto’s date, however, many painters practised shadows and lights, and turned more or less sunwards; but he set the figure between himself and a full sun.
From A Father of Women and other poems by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying—the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring— that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman
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