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She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky.

From Time Magazine Archive

They wrinkle the brow and bring on decrepitude, senility and grey hairs faster than Time himself can possibly whirl bodies graveward.

From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly

No, it is only fair to my own interests to go graveward a little more openmindedly than do these nature myths, since I lack the requisite credulity to become a free-thinking materialist.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch

Was it because she was childless, and travelling graveward?

From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred

Death-dull from feet to hair and graveward shoved From royalty to that degraded state But purpler pomp!

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius