sunwards
Britishadverb
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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 Edward Bruce Kirk
The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms.
From Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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
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 W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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