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sunwards

British  
/ ˈsʌnwədz /

adverb

  1. towards the sun

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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 Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

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

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

The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms.

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

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