sunwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Before Tintoretto’s date, however, many painters practised shadows and lights, and turned more or less sunwards; but he set the figure between himself and a full sun.
From A Father of Women and other poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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
For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying—the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring— that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
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 Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
They stood together in the blessed noon, They sang together through the length of days; Each loving face bent sunwards, like a moon New-lit with love and praise.”
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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