cityward
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of cityward
Example Sentences
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In saying good night to his hostess, Burr lingered after the other guests had trundled off cityward in their carriages.
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Nyoda patted her on the head again and then started cityward with her big box of delicacies for Mrs. Deane.
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There were several other wagons approaching, all going in the same direction—cityward.
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As he brushed mechanically the debris which had clung to his clothes, he was surprised to see the figure of a man step out, seemingly from the fence itself, and slip down the hillside, and climbing the lower fence, cross the almost dry bed of the stream, close to the road, and proceed cityward.
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From this point on one comes within the25 sphere of influence of Nantes, and there is more or less of a suburban traffic on the railway, and the plodders cityward by road are more numerous than the mere vagabonds of the countryside.
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