landwards
Britishadverb
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The Irish Sea, whipped by a bitter wind, crashes onto the shore, hurling spray landwards and soaking the ledge.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023
About four o'clock, looking landwards from a little sandy knoll just in front of his strange abode, he saw two figures coming along the dyke path.
From The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He set his face landwards and thrust all uncertainty from him.
From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill
Amidst words of gratitude and with praise on their lips to a merciful God, the utterly exhausted crew saw the Deal men set sail and fight their way again through the storm landwards.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
This band is walled to landwards by a wall of dark forest, mounted against the sky to seaward by a wall of white surf; beyond that there is the horizon-bounded ocean.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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