sunwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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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
The Eagle stooping from the sky Shall fold his wing and rest him here, And sunwards gaze with glowing eye From Buonaparte’s bier.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
The surface-water shivered; and the upper spray was swept off by the north wind, which waxed colder and more biting as we steered sunwards.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Would not his wings soon be paralysed, like a caged eagle's, so that he would try to soar sunwards in vain?'
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
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)
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