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 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
Spring had come again, and south-lying snow-drifts on the Cascade Mountains once more felt that the "earth was wheeling sunwards."
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
It should look sunwards, if possible, and hideous pictures should be removed, while perhaps some text speaking comfortably of the Good Shepherd, who "will gently lead those that are with young," may be hung up.
From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce
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)
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