waterward

She ran across the stretch of glistening beach, paused and struck a pose, one toe pointed waterward, her arms extended affectedly.

All of these had turned waterward when the whistle sounded so long and shrilly.

A few yards waterward from the gate there lay, hidden in the shadowed water, a sunken pier.

And the coquetry faded from her eyes as her glance wandered waterward and became fixed on some object invisible and far away.