| 单词 | landward |
| 例句 | Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z By the time Ralph had reached the landward end of the scar he was using precious breath to swear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But at the mouth of the harbor where it opened out to the sea a heavy wind blowing landward struck them and they could make no headway against it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The lakeward edge of the island was steep enough to discourage hippos, but the landward side sloped gently into the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The thermal collapsed, and Duchess fell landward, alighting on the limb of an enormous sycamore tree near the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Nugent made it, still knee-deep, and grasped the handle of a door on the landward side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Blackberry buried his nose in the gravel under the landward edge of the board and raised it, pushing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept afloat and swam your sea, or drifted, taken by wind and current to this coast where I went in on big swells running landward. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They found a path on the landward side of the dunes, then they were crossing a sandy lawn strewn with broken bottles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A brisk wind swung the boat’s nose landward, causing the men below to strain at their yellow ropes as if they were reining in a wayward balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z It typically is landward of the coastline because salt water is denser than fresh water, so it has a greater force and naturally pushes in. Climate Change Is Making Saltwater Intrusion Worse in Coastal Areas 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Rural communities are left with little choice but to also retreat landward. Sustainable protection of rapidly subsiding coastlines with mangroves 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Warming oceans also lead to increased precipitation as more moisture-saturated air moves landward. Erosion forces Olympic National Park to take a hard look at Kalaloch Lodge 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Hundreds of years ago, a tsunami slammed into the northern Chilean coast—a wall of water 20 meters high, taller than a six-story building, that swept boulders landward like pebbles. Ancient Tsunami Detectives Hunt for Long-Lost Cataclysms 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Along subduction zones, as we saw in Chapter 10, earthquakes are very abundant, and they are increasingly deep on the landward side of the subduction zone. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A push from the sea side – whether it’s sea-level rise, storm surge or high tides – moves the balance point landward. Climate Change Is Making Saltwater Intrusion Worse in Coastal Areas 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Virginia’s shorelines are already moving landward, inundating coastal cities and natural areas. Opinion | Climate change is the next world war. Give it the coverage it deserves. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The area where the northern ocean was thought to exist also contains what are called thumbprint terrains, found on the landward side of those suspected ancient shorelines. When a Mega-Tsunami Drowned Mars, This Spot May Have Been Ground Zero 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “The Ranch, landward of the mean high tide line, is our property and our home,” he said. These California beaches have long been off-limits. But public outrage is changing the tide 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z A decade later, a British geographer observed that railroads had shifted the locus of global power landward into the interior of the vast Eurasian continent. Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z However, the scale of future wetland loss or gain depends greatly on the degree to which coastal communities accept or prevent the landward advances of these living coastal systems into newly inundated areas. Future of tidal wetlands depends on coastal management 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z That prevents the natural erosion of bluffs and stops the beach from moving landward as the shoreline crumbles, said Madeline Cavalieri, coastal planner at the California Coastal Commission. A Beach Town's Dilemma: Protect Homes or Save the Shore? 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z One solution is to remove shoreline armaments, restoring natural landward movement of beach-marsh ecosystems wherever buildings and infrastructure allow. Opinion | To save horseshoe crabs, fight climate change 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Studies showed a loss of sand volume landward of the plastic seawalls. South Carolina editorial roundup 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z They can be found in indigenous languages in the Arctic, the Amazon, and the Himalaya, and various cultures embrace contrasts such as upriver/downriver or landward/seaward. These People Have a Mind-Bending Way to Navigate 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z These processes add bulk to the landward side, making the island wider. The old man and the rising sea Assateague is already threatened by erosion from that rate, and the island is also at risk of migrating landward and breaking into smaller sections over time. The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague Island The beach from Bay Head that extends north to Sandy Hook dropped six to eight feet vertically and eroded landward 100 to 150 feet horizontally, he said. State of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost? 2013-05-18T05:17:52Z The sinking Salton Trough is the landward extension of the Gulf of California, and marks the boundary between the Pacific and North America tectonic plates. Salton Sea Volcano Mystery Solved 2012-10-28T20:17:14.297Z The landward side of the barge, moored by the banks of the river, rests instead on the emerging shore, tilted at the kind of angle that probably makes it difficult to keep pencils on desks. In Midst of a Drought, Trying to Keep Cargo Moving on the Mississippi 2012-08-20T00:44:13Z In this fashion, the island rolls slowly landward, a couple of feet or more a year. The old man and the rising sea It was absurdly intrusive, and harmonized with nothing in the woods or foreground save the white wall of mist that every night trended landward from the ocean, but never touched the shore. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z It sweeps landward with a more majestic force. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z It is not, however, this landward castle which lingers in the memory of the traveller as he turns his memory back upon this beautiful and breezy beach. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Nor shall I forget my first sight of the city's landward gate, closed by British earthworks, patrolled by British bayonets, with the red standard flying in the setting sun. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z But stopping the overwash also starved the landward side of sediment. The old man and the rising sea The way is walled in on the landward side by the abrupt precipices of Newport Mountain, in the sheer face of which stunted firs are niched here and there. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z White as a sea fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z The moat which guarded the three sides landward, with a defensive wall along the outer bank, has become a garden with trim green slopes, and a wealth of glorious roses. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z In the dark mews behind the "Wild Goose Tavern" had gathered a shadowy company of horsemen, unfortunate patriots who had not been quick enough to leave the city before the troops shut its landward gates. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The current, at this point of the lake, twisted sharply landward in a half-circle. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The shore on the landward side of this entrance was dotted with pleasant verandahed villas and fresh-tilled fields, signs of the civilization which is pushing back the forest in all parts of the island. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z Taking refuge on a small iceberg, he had been carried south till the berg, suddenly disintegrating, had forced him to dare the long landward flight. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The huge, sheer landward face of Gibraltar Rock towered up before them as they looked across the mile of neutral ground, that flat neck of land between the Mediterranean and the Bay. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z It is only red on the landward side. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z On the landward side of the opening his forefeet clawed helplessly at the unbroken ledge of ice. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z "Splendid!" exclaimed Guert, staring this way and that way, landward, as he pulled. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z The Warren Farm lies on the landward edge of the Warren, and there on a sunny 6th of August 1855, a third birthday was being solemnized with tea and a tent. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Those that remain today are shifting landward and shrinking in size faster than any other barrier islands in the lower US. A real sea change 2011-12-23T18:45:12.097Z Approaching from the landward side on an autumn or late summer day the heights are seen covered by a wonderful carpet of purple or crimson and gold. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z But the wind increased constantly until by night it was blowing a gale, and though every stitch of canvas had been taken in and furled, they were being driven landward. Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children 2011-12-22T03:00:21.710Z The first words that were sent landward, however, were in the tremendously excited treble of old Se�ora Paez. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z They fled past the landward side of the stockade, though beyond musket range, and disappeared behind the rising ground that terminated in the headland on the northern side of the harbour. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z They waited and at last far out they saw three swirling masses rolling landward. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z But whether that was so or not the purpose of the landward castle can only be guessed. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z As a side note, he also described the ivory trade in Central Asia, the landward side of China. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z But suppose that the lighthouse we are considering be near the shore, so that there is no need for it to throw any light in one—the landward—direction. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Having loaded all our ordnance on the landward side, and kept such of our boats as were still seaworthy close alongside, we could only await the dawn, of which signs were already apparent. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z And still the storm Blew fiercer and more fierce, and the white crests Plunged on the strand, and the high promontories Resounded counter-stricken, and a mist Of foam, blown landward, hid the sounding shore. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Under ordinary circumstances, sand banks are always rolling landward, and they compose the magazine from which the material for the dunes is derived. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Choosing a rock that was lashed by broken water on the seaward side, and had a deep calm pool on the landward side, they determined to try their luck. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z The sea was perfectly calm, a large vessel was heaving landward. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z Like the Morro Castle, it was used by the Spaniards as a prison, and the Laurel Ditch, under its landward walls, was the scene of many a martyrdom of Cuban patriots. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Gazing landward, he saw Andy standing on the edge of the lower terrace, striving to attract his attention by means of a handkerchief tied to a stick. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z All the buildings at the extremity of the peninsula have been taken down and rebuilt farther landward, and the lighthouse of the Grave now occupies its third position. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z On the landward side similar machines were used. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z To all appearances they were zealously visiting the Turkish troops engaged in perfecting the landward defences. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z But off the crane hopped now, the dog and the children too following, and there, not thirty yards from the place where they had been all night, was a landward opening into the cave. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The palms on the landward shore bent in the wind and the dense green jungle behind them rolled in tossing waves of green. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z They examined the engines of war and the piles of ammunition that had been assembled upon the landward side of the defences. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z The towers erected on the governor's palace and at the northeast angle of the fort, were intended as look-outs both sea and landward. The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 2011-09-24T02:00:14.187Z All eyes are turned lovingly on the shore, the rowers' charmed muscles relax, and the ship drifts landward. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z So early next morning the discovery party had reached the landward opening. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z On the landward side of this, glossy-green jungle rolled away and merged into taller forest that was presently lost in haze. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Soon we see the circular mass of poor Dixmude—shell-shattered and mutilated—lying at the landward end of the black waters. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z The men are gathered in little groups on deck, and there is a tenderness in their landward gaze, and a pathos in their rough voices, that one would hardly expect to find. Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z It stands at the landward extreme of a rocky ledge, on the margin of a green àiridh. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The Dyaks, scurrying through the banyan groves and bamboo thickets, enclosed it on the rear and landward sides. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z The fog had crept up since they had gone below and was now stealing silently past them, blown landward before a tiny southeast breeze. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z We gave our dogs a light meal, and started landward, leaving great piles of walrus meat behind us on the ice. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z To leave, for a time, the Potomac boundary of Arlington, let us turn to the narrowing of the boundaries of the landward side of the County. A History of the Boundaries of Arlington County, Virginia 2011-08-01T02:00:15.637Z To landward the bastioned turrets known as the “Twelve Apostles” soared into a blue sky; from seaward the rollers were thundering up, in front of a steady north-west breeze. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z From landward, with unusual resonance in the deep quiet of that hour, sounded the long, dull, whining purr of a motor-car. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The rising ground began about half a mile from the Mori Gate—which was situated on what may be termed the landward side of the Kashmir Gate. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The wind fortunately gave a landward push to the ice. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z For when the hot winds of the desert stream over the cold antarctic current that washes this coast, they draw up moisture which is blown back landward in the form of vapour. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z It was composed of three stories, p. 62being intended to overlook the works, and had no windows on the landward side. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Away we went down the harbour, and bore up towards Mackay as the sun slowly sank behind the landward hills. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z On the contrary, the enemy lay inland, showing they had come upon the camp from the landward side. The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition 2011-06-06T02:00:10.330Z Leaping into the frail, rocking canoe, we pushed along desperately through a few long channels to reach a wide, open space of water landward. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z That was the signal for the Barbados militiamen to advance from the landward side of the breastwork, to provide defensive cover. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z More fatiguing was the landward journey, which Bowman, Ellen, and I continued, in company, across mountain range after mountain range, valley after valley. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z The rain swept landward and drove everybody, 141 even the few bathers, to cover. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z How could the gay waves laugh and leap, landward o’er sand and stone, While he, who knew and loved them all, lay lapped in clay alone? Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z His boat rose and fell on the glassy undulations, but moved not towards the shore, save by the slow landward heave of the sea. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z He signaled the seamen who had finished their assigned tasks to join him, and together they took cover against the low parapet on the landward side of the breastwork. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z In ten days or two weeks, down the river by boat to the mouth of the Tennessee, and, I suppose, landward to Kaskaskia—since that is the weaker point. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Shore erosion is there at a minimum in spite of the abrasion produced by the ice-packs when forced landward by the wind. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z They ran into a basin with gray rocks and stones on its landward side, and a shoal on which the surf broke to seaward; and, soon after dropping anchor, they rowed ashore. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z He watched it with eager attention as it came bounding landward, flinging the glittering spray from its round bows, its wet sides shining in the moonlight as if sheathed with plates of silver. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Amid the gunfire and confusion, he turned and slipped down the landward side of the breastwork. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z So much for the prospect landward, while towards the waves themselves there was a party of bathers, whose flowing hair and lengthened drapery indicated their sex. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Precipitation on their seaward slopes is copious, but their landward sides overlooking the arid plains of central Washington are far less humid. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The defences of the town, p. 288however, except the landward ones, afford melancholy proofs of Spanish apathy and neglect, even when allowance is made for the present peculiarly unhappy circumstances of the country. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Now I chose a landward way, which the county map seemed to justify, though doubtfully, as regarded the last part of the journey. The Great Return 2011-03-20T02:00:35.837Z We are watching the TV which is showing the tsunami rushing landward. Japanese earthquake: Eyewitness accounts 2011-03-11T09:49:03Z The last of the reaching ice sprang landward, leaped the distance, and drove its teeth toward the ship. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The outline of the land as it existed previous to the upheaval which exposed this portion of the ocean's bottom would be defined by the landward 302 margin of the material deposited. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z He bids his comrades turn aside and set their prows landward, and enters with joy the river's shadowed bed. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z At four o’clock that afternoon they flung themselves, utterly spent, on a carpet of thick moss which coated the landward slope of the most westerly point of Hanover Island. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z One visitor says: "Westward toward the setting sun and the sea," was a "filmy fog creeping landward, swallowing one by one the distant hills." Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z He turned from the girl and strode to the rail on the landward side of the ship, where she joined him, and they watched the Russians streaming in a long line over the snow-mantled island. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain everywhere slopes gently seaward, and on its landward margin has an elevation in general of from 200 to 300 feet. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Nothing!” she cried, fiercely, as she sprang to her feet and turned and shook her clenched fists landward. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z Eventually, a sand bar is formed, and when its crest nears sea level, the waves break over the top, spilling more sand landward. Q & A: Raising the Barriers 2010-09-27T20:36:00Z Often a river wound round the base, and where it led short, a moat was constructed on the landward side, and borrowed its water from the river. Cathedral Cities of England Helen Marr stood by a landward porthole, and she turned and smiled at Stirling, but the smile died as she saw the sombre light in his eyes. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The waves of the sea, in fact, act like a horizontal saw, the edge of which slowly advances landward. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z As the flotilla moved on its way a portent showed on the bow to landward. H.M.S. —— To landward of us was the narrow channel or lane beside which the walruses had been lying. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 The boy strained at his single oar, and the Jennie S. moved landward at a good, stiff pace. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway The road ran nearly straight into the water and then bent suddenly and followed the rim of the bay, with nothing but empty sea-links on the landward side. The Spy in Black The water carried landward by each wave as it rushes up the sloping surface of a terrace again finds its way seaward, either wholly or in part, as an "undertow." North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The first assault upon the fort, from the landward side, was repulsed. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 On the landward side, Braila has the shape of a crescent, the curve of its outer streets following the line of the old fortifications, dismantled in 1829. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The quarry forms the landward face, as one may say, and among the trees is a woodman’s hut. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 The landward slope is in many places very gentle, the crest of the range being sometimes but slightly raised above the level of the plateau of the Deccan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Next morning the Duke of Ormond landed two thousand British infantry to take the forts and destroy the landward end of the boom, made of chain cables and spars which blocked the channel. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day With my back to the long rolling breakers I gazed away landward at the long line of hills stretching in each direction. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England Three others jump into each of the large boats, two into the small one, and bring them round to the landward side of the ship. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. At any rate, the embankment was on the beach, and the waves lapped the foot of it, and there was a wall of cut rock to landward. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel At once Nels came forward, took one look about, then pointed at a sooty limb projecting landward from the trunk. The Auto Boys' Mystery Jacob looked through the aperture on the landward side and saw pleasant things. Jacob's Ladder There was a hint of breeze, from landward for a change. Day of the Druid But Maui, looking landward, saw a fire on the mountain side. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina Up the slope it climbs, then drops its burden, which slides to the bottom of an abrupt landward steep. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Setting his pace northward and landward, he stalked straight ahead for hours,—and where he expected a familiar ridge of rocks he came upon open sea. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Through the landward aperture, the great house all through the long, sunny morning seemed somnolent, almost deserted, but towards luncheon time a motor-car arrived from the direction of the station, containing a single passenger. Jacob's Ladder Slowly, methodically, he worked with his charge toward the landward limits of the current, cunningly biding the time to abandon it. The Destroying Angel Compare such a line as Longfellow's— "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice"— with Kingsley's— "Then as a pine upon Ida when south-west winds blow landward." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History If the wind blows from the ocean and the tide is landward, the two forces combine, and the loose rocks are thrown against the solid beach with astonishing force. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place These fortifications are of little practical value on the landward side, as they are commanded by a hill which overlooks the town. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" But to-night there was a landward breeze, so that all lights were extinguished to avoid attracting the mosquitoes. When the Cock Crows Without a ripple, he glided into the moonlight astern, and a moment later his round, black head was no more than a piece of bobbing drift borne landward by the current. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure The older city, including both the Zealand and Amager portions, was formerly surrounded by a complete line of ramparts and moats; but pleasant boulevards and gardens now occupy the westward or landward site of fortifications. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" A lone drifter on patrol speaks us and reports no enemy sighted in the area: an auxiliary cruiser with a destroyer escorting her passes south on the rim of the landward horizon. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war These are all fortified on the landward side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The city lies on the west side of the low island of Manzanillo, is bordered on the landward sides by swamp, and consists mainly of unimposing frame houses and small shops. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Mountains usually have a rainy and a drier side; the contrast between the two is greatest when a prevailing damp wind crosses the mountain, or when one slope faces seaward and the other landward. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" They had been pacing the deck together for some minutes, but at last they stood still, looking landward. The Return of the Prodigal She requires an even greater protection, exposed as she is to dangers on the sea that do not threaten the landward structure. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Rude and bare hills embraced the inlet upon either hand; it was enclosed to the landward by a bulk of shattered mountains. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) One day in late October, a sudden squall drove landward, capsizing the dory in which my mother was returning from a visit to old friends on an island off the Rockport coast. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The fresh cool breeze blowing landward brought with it an invigorating influence, which Mara felt through all her feverish frame. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine The cave could be entered through a narrow opening on the landward side, but most shamans preferred a more dramatic entrance. Washo Religion They 'clear our hawse' from turns and twists in the chain of our landward connections. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war On the landward hand, cliffs made a quadrant of an amphitheatre, melting on either side into the general mountain of the isle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Just on the landward side of the hillock itself—below, at its base—they perceived a more sheltered situation; and why not select that spot for their resting place? The Boy Slaves The road here drew in its shoulders, and crept through between the landward extremity of the mill and a little garden enclosure, with a small house and a large signboard within its privet hedge. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers On the landward slopes, gentler and less windswept, down toward the "sweet waters" that flow from inland to the sea, you may with patient search find many. Old Plymouth Trails The public has become interested not alone in our sea-ventures, but in our landward doings. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Over a pulley or wheel on the top of this there is passed a wire-rope cable fastened on the seaward side to the buoy, and on the landward side to the machinery in the engine-house. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast Fortunately for them, there was none sufficiently approximate to make out the character of that dark speck, slowly approaching the white sand-spit, like any other drift carried upon the landward current of the sea. The Boy Slaves No doubt he saw many things that escaped my landward vision. Aliens If the wind blows landward, they are compelled to haul off to a great distance to escape the terrible sea which dashes on a rocky coast without a harbor within three days’ sail. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The business of shipping, if more hazardous and difficult on the sea, was less complicated in its landward connections than is its modern conduct. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war On the landward side there stands a monument to the poor German lads who fell at Fangalii, just beyond which the passer-by may chance to observe a little house standing backward from the road. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) I am as landward as yourself; I am Highland, as you see, and think myself the farther from my home.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) I read the name Niantic on the stern of one of them; and found it to have acquired in the landward side a square false front. Gold Dunrobin Castle, with a million silent acres of mountain and moor behind it, looks down from a cliff over the wastes of the North Sea, but is on the landward side sheltered by fine timber. Memoirs of Life and Literature The insurgents had drawn their lines closely around the landward side of the city, and Captain-General Augusti published a decree ordering all the male population under arms. The Boys of '98 Wives, mothers, maidens, wistfully, in vain Questioned the distance for the yearning sail, That, leaning landward, should have stretched again White arms wide on the gale, To bring back their beloved. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 There, for a moment, faint and wan, High up in air, and landward striving, Stern-fore a spectral barque came on, Across the purple sunset driving. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Montcalm, therefore, hastily detailed a small force to defend the cliffs; and the right wing of the army under Bougainville was charged with the protection of the city upon its flank, or landward side. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France To-day the landward view was all veiled in haze, which seemed to shut off the sad island from the world. The Thread of Gold They were lying crowded together on a floe a little to landward from us, blue mountains glittering behind them in the sun. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Her voice was shrill with terror as she seized McGuire’s arm and pointed landward. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Nothing was in sight that seemed to interest him, so he turned the glass a little landward and levelled it on the Piney Cove mansion, which made an imposing feature in the landscape. A Noble Woman He gave Denas a letter, but refused the offer of a cup of tea, because “the storm was hurrying landward, and he would be busy all to catch the cliff-top before it caught him.” A Singer from the Sea The current had turned and was running landward. Dwellers in the Hills Though in midwinter, the air was mild, as if a warm breath had been wafted landward from the Gulf Stream. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance The rock is almost severed by a fissure opening towards the sea: a wave surges in and spurts from the orifices on the landward side, then recedes and sucks the air back through them. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel These narrow belts about the eastern waters are bounded on the landward side by high bluffs over which many showers fail to pass and which protect the belts below from heavy dews. Manual of American Grape-Growing Although almost on her beam ends, her decks inclining landward, the strongly-built ship held steady in spite of the tremendous onslaughts of the seas along her bilge. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main On the landward side are lawns, flowers, and abundance of eye-gladdening leafage, while, seaward, there is the unspeakable glory of isle-dotted loch and distant sea. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Something similar was done in the landward part of the Roman State. Pius IX. And His Time In a few minutes they were threading their way in single file across the saucer-like waste which lay to landward of the hill overlooking the jetty and the inlet. The Wild Geese In Nicaea only one church was left standing, while Constantinople deplored the ruin of large portions of the landward fortifications and the loss of many churches, monasteries, and public monuments. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture At its landward end it rose into a mass of tumbled rocks perhaps twenty or thirty feet above the water. In the Morning of Time When it went down again, he rowed up on the landward side of it, and fixed the head and line to his harpoon. Eskimo Folk-Tales In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water, Loud the sea bemoaned its sameness; Dashing shoreward with impatience To explore the landward mysteries. The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare The exact site of the wall and the two landward gates seems to be indicated by the old ward boundaries, but modern investigators have neglected them. Memorials of Old London Volume I It looked like a little dark blot some distance ahead, nearing the landward base of the peninsula. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards These islands were fretted, on both their landward and their seaward sides, by innumerable caves. Kings in Exile The coffee district comprises the landward slopes of the Western Ghats, from Kanara to Travancore. All About Coffee Jeremy looked away up the bay where he could still see the speck of white sail that showed his father hurrying landward on a long tack with the west wind abeam. The Black Buccaneer They went for a walk landward; as it was so windy, instead—remember that they were only in the third week of their honeymoon! Somehow Good For when I followed Peg Leg’s tracks through the trees I discovered a radio station tucked away in a hollow behind the timber, with sandhills hiding it on the landward side. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards Suddenly the deep report of a cannon came echoing landward from the sea; a shell, with lighted fuse trailing sparks, flew over us with a rushing whistle and exploded on the moors. The Maids of Paradise On the landward side rises the island of Eigg proper, resembling in outline two wedges, placed point to point on a board. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland In a long bay that cut deep into the landward shore Amos Swan had found a pebbly beach a score of yards in length, where a boat could be run in at any tide. The Black Buccaneer Then they went inland, passed round the grove of fallen trees, and looked landward. A Chapter of Adventures “On the landward side of that old Brownell place, Dad, they’ve built a high fence of heavy strands of wire on steel poles,” said Bob. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards We went into camp under the landward glacis of the cliffs, in a field of clover which was to be ploughed under in a few days. The Maids of Paradise This formation runs landward for about a hundred miles—constituting a strip of marshy soil, which separates the sea from a parallel limestone formation further inward. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Broke so sweet, and calm, and pretty; all pink landward over the black jungle, all smooth and baby-blue out to sea. It, and Other Stories In the dim light I could see the long line of foam, while above the dark cliffs loomed; landward nothing was visible, save a suggestion of the outline of the hills. The Birthright In the lulls he saw how wind and sea were sweeping the two ships landward, until almost in arrow-shot of the rocky point where sat Xerxes and his lords. A Victor of Salamis Parallel streets lead from the harbour to the hills that fence the town to the landward. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Meanwhile, on the landward side of our vessel—which had rounded Morant Point in the night, and was now gliding smoothly on—lay in near view the mountains of Jamaica. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The bay, which is crossed by a fine bridge at its narrow landward extremity, is the headquarters of a fishing fleet, and a port of call for many coasting vessels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" “Let us get away from this place!” said Croyden, and they sauntered along landward. In Her Own Right White as a sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And with a sorrowful deep sound, The river flow'd between. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets With slow even breast strokes the strong swimmer bore His fair burden landward. Three Women We walked inland, and on our return, at noon, found, as my notes of the day express it, "an innumerable host, thousands upon thousands," about the landward side of the dunes. The Foot-path Way On one side the promontory rose sheer above the sea, and on the other sloped landward, covered with green, with low and leafy groves, among which peeped the white dots of a diminutive village. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan They, likely, came to Annapolis only occasionally, and Greenberry Point seemed unchanged—always the same narrow stretch of sand, with large trees to landward.” In Her Own Right He was a hospitable soul who met me once entering the landward gate in a travel-stained burnoose and insisted on dragging me into his gorgeously-carpeted house to drink aquardiente and look at his "curios." Pan-Islam He helps it forward, even while he opposes himself to it, just as a bulwark of submerged rocks make the tide leap landward with more foaming fury! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions To obviate this a screen has been placed on the landward side of the lantern. The Cornwall Coast After landing with my detachment of twenty-two men, we turned our faces landward to find the army then moving towards Richmond. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 A lone, wrinkled fisherman, rolling lazily on the mighty heave of the incoming tide, turned his head landward. A Village of Vagabonds At high-water it plunges abruptly into the sea, except on the north or landward side, where the granite comes into contact with slate. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Presently the tossing cask was visible, drifting rapidly landward. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good The fellows crowded along the landward rail, and, with or without glasses, endeavoured to discover battle-signs and the positions of our men. The Tale of a Trooper On the landward side were heavy earthworks, abatis, and sharp pointed chevaux-de-frise. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Rising from my chair at the tea-table, I walked across to the landward side of the yawl, and stood there, reflecting. Ravensdene Court It will mak a braw show in a landward kirk. The Proverbs of Scotland A blaze of sheet lightning showed her, careened landward, lying broadside toward them about one hundred feet distant. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good White spots, curling wavelets, dotted it; then broke abroad as white-horses in full mad landward career. A Poor Man's House Then the Confederates, thinking the day was theirs, sprang on the ramparts, and began a vigorous cheer just as the Union soldiers came pouring over the landward face of the fort. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 They were coming, coming from the landward, these rescuers of her beloved. The Light of Scarthey His other eye he kept landward for word of Henry’s war against the Barons. Puck of Pook’s Hill They commanded both landward and seaward approaches to the town, those nearest the invading Japanese being situated upon, and named Moltke Berg, Bismarck Berg, and Iltis Berg. World's War Events, Vol. I After talking to her mate, he returned to the harbor, and when he landed, lighted a cigarette and studied some alterations that were being made at the landward end of the mole. Brandon of the Engineers Each feature of it, town and landward, was a crony of old years. The House with the Green Shutters He planted himself in front of the landward window, and gazed forth a while. The Light of Scarthey You, bent on a visit to the genial Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, arrive from landward. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 The breeze from landward died as the main was being set, and the Nuestra began to roll gently as she fell off. Isle o' Dreams "Bring to and shoot," cried Pete, and they dropped sail to the landward of the fleet, off the shoulder of the Calf Island, with its two lights making one. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 The landward slope of the cliff was gray with dew. The House with the Green Shutters I went outside the landward gate of the city, and looked out over the level of brilliant sand which stretched out from there to Lake Tchad. Old Junk Trenches also had been dug and Marchand's party were completely hemmed in from the landward side as well as by water, the gunboats controlling the river. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan With the flood of the tide and a landward breeze, the brig stole out across the bar while the topsails were sheeted home. Blackbeard: Buccaneer On the landward side of the bleak house, crimson-rambler roses were luxuriant, and a stiff shell-bordered garden gave charily of small marigolds. The Innocents A Story for Lovers The mountains landward were steep and inaccessible; the sea was shoal. Xerxes Makers of History At the landward end of the waste, by the foot of the dunes, was an old beam of a ship, harsh with barnacles, its bolt-holes stopped with dust. Old Junk He made no effort to prevent the insurgents from shutting up his army on the landward side, and early in May they began to form entrenchments. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration La Crosse has been sent up the ravine, to report how things look landward. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea But along the coasts of Scotland and Ireland there was a succession of disasters for those who clung to, or were driven into, the landward waters. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima I turned my eyes landward, and it was there, and when I closed them I saw it still. Roger Trewinion Venice lies so absolutely and wholly on the water's bosom that the landward approach to her is not imposing and scarcely impressive. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Surely all this points to the long and landward route pursued by this extraordinary people. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Now and then a white gull, flashing silver where its plumage caught the sun, soared landward. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Worden shifted his anchorage in the night, and taking advantage of the "Monitor's" light draught steamed up the Roads, and anchored his ship in the shallow water to landward of the stranded "Minnesota." Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima A maddening desire came into my heart to get away, and with eager feet I rushed landward. Roger Trewinion Out beyond, the boats were at anchor, floating as gracefully on the twinkling water as sea birds, their tall masts bowing landward on the swell. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 However, Captain Mayo kept his own gaze most steadfastly on the landward horizon. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 The wail and bark of a jackal came from the landward plain. The Valley of the Kings By the time the great galley of Alexandria was thus captured the landward wings of the two fleets were mingled together in a confused fight, in which there was little left of the original order. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima Besides this, a hill which rose up landward broke the force of the wind, so that it was not so exposed as I had at first thought. Roger Trewinion The sea approach was abandoned, and now that Kaupepee’s boats were destroyed or injured, so that he could not get away, the assailants concentrated their efforts on the landward side. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate General Butler, at Norfolk, exerted himself to discover the traders operating by way of the Chesapeake Bay, but without success; with a like result I tried to unearth the landward lines. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After To prevent the unnecessary landward waste of the sound, the gun was furnished with a parabolic muzzle, intended to project the sound over the sea, where it was most needed. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Fortunately for them, there was none sufficiently approximate to make out the character of that dark speck, slowly approaching the white sandspit, like any other drift carried upon the landward current of the sea. The Boy Slaves It is protected on the landward side by an amphitheater of high hills, which leave to the right and left a narrow strip of rolling country between their lower slopes and the sea. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) The broader base helps to prevent the bridge see-sawing when a heavy train goes over it, and it is further assisted by the landward ends of the other two cantilevers being heavily loaded. Chatterbox, 1906 It was to leeward of the wind, which was blowing us perceptibly that way, while at the same time the waves swept us landward. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada Meanwhile, if the scene to seaward was cheerless, that to landward offered but small improvement. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Just on the landward side of the hillock itself, below at its base, they perceived a more sheltered situation; and why select that spot for their resting-place? The Boy Slaves The two wings were in touch and to landward the communications of the town were completely cut off. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Distance and uncertainty of aim saved us from much loss by these projectiles, but their shriek and elongated form astonished our landward men, who called them lamp posts. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War “There don’t seem to be any Mexican warships in the harbor,” said Ned to the señor, as they looked landward from the deck of their badly mauled bark. Ahead of the Army The sea fogs had pitched their tents to landward, and their misty battalions were driving gray across the landscape. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Before following up those that went landward he returned to the ship and clambered on board, but found nothing to reward him for his pains. Wrecked but not Ruined It had been rightly conjectured that the landward guns of the enemy would not be manned, or even ready for action. The Battle and the Breeze However, Acapulco, where they were to be permitted to land for an hour or two, was of more importance to the passengers; and landward the majority of eyes were turned. Gold Seekers of '49 Perched up on a hill, it overlooked a number of deep and narrow valleys that ran landward, while the other side of the hill sloped down to the sea-shore. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Thus, half reclining, I steered landward till midnight, when I took in the sail and lay-to on the calm ocean till morning. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Then he rose abruptly and turned to the landward door. By The Sea 1887 By that time the wind was almost a hurricane; and before it were driven sharp sheets of snow that cut and sounded as they sped madly landward. Janet of the Dunes I led her across it to the landward side, from which we could look down into 234 the yard of a prison. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure High in every one of its four sides, seaward and landward, was a window, from which many a watcher must have looked and strained anxious eyes. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 As far as my eye reached landward, I could descry nothing but a continuous reef on which the chafed sea was dashing furiously in columns of the densest spray. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver We were clustering on the landward side of the ship, smoking and watching the town and harbour. The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne From "The New Decameron", Volume III. Once the dunes were gained, their landward side was sheltered. Janet of the Dunes Cast three long steps Souwest to Big Rock and dig on landward side. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure No breath of wind disturbed the surface, and only a gentle swell came landward at intervals to remind us of its still mighty, though hidden, power. A Woman who went to Alaska It was so dark that I could not see the key, yet, as I still discerned the galliot’s masts relieved against the sky, I was enabled by that beacon to steer my way landward. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver We may now turn back to pursue the story of the fortunes of the emigrant Boers who had remained on the landward or northerly side of the Quathlamba Range, or had returned thither from Natal. Impressions of South Africa For long the landward clans looked upon the incomers to it as foreign and unfriendly. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn "Cast three long steps Souwest to Big Rock and dig on landward side." The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure Twenty-five of her crew were put ashore, and being re-enforced by a few American prisoners kept upon the island, made a descent upon Fort Nassau from its landward side. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 When the vapor lifted on the fourth morning, our look-out announced a sail from the mast-head, and every eye was quickly sweeping the landward horizon in search of the stranger. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver The schoolroom was perfumed with the smoke of peat, for it was the landward pupils' week of the fuelling, and they were accustomed to bring each his own peat under his arm every morning. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure With his teeth set, his brow knit, his legs rigid, his hands clenched on the oar, he made it bend from end to end at every stroke, and the Pearl was veering landward. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. As soon as it was dark enough, Captain Penman let his vessel drift landward with the tide, then running strong into the wide swallow of the Solway. Patsy The landward horizon still brightened at intervals with a languid mockery of lightning, dimmed by the fog that was dragging in from the sea. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The calm quiet of that tropic season soon wore away, and, when I looked landward, at day-dawn, I perceived two strange boats at anchor near the key. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver “No, musser,” said the obedient child; and she kept on the landward side of her parent thereafter with demonstrative care. The Madman and the Pirate From the place where they sat neither their own boat nor Leif’s could be seen—only the landward opening of the inlet. The Norsemen in the West As he rowed leisurely landward a sudden gust of wind from the shore shivered the liquid mirror into fragments. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story "You found the waters of Champlain tranquil, and no hawks followed the landward passage?" Blacksheep! Blacksheep! He returned as he spoke to the cave’s landward entrance, and clambered out with some difficulty, followed by his companions. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers Farther back, on the landward side of our unobtrusive street, commercial and nautical elements were more mingled with things appertaining to domestic life. The Lifeboat On the landward side this inlet could be reached by a path, which, though it appeared somewhat rugged, was nevertheless easy to traverse. The Norsemen in the West As the sun’s last rays sank in the west, and the clouds, losing their crimson hue, began gradually to fade into grey, the boats’ heads were turned landward. The Young Fur Traders The noble charger, swept irresistibly landward, made frantic efforts to regain his footing, and partially succeeded before the full force of the retreating water bore back upon him. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn Then, turning his face landward, he laid his board on the water, and pushing it under himself, came slowly in, watching for a larger wave than usual. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers The people on the wreck also heard the cheer, and looked eagerly landward. The Lifeboat Taking his stand on the landward side of his men, and ordering Thorward to do the same in the direction of the water, he calmly awaited the onset. The Norsemen in the West I stumble now in miry ways; Dark clouds drift landward, big with rain, And lonely moors their summits raise. A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry The indications seem to be that the lighter guns were partially withdrawn, perhaps for the landward defences of Mobile, and their place supplied by heavier and rifled guns. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. As I gazed landward, I saw the devastation the hurricane was already committing. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific When we looked back landward, we saw, however, that the sun was already sinking below the tree-crowned heights, and in that latitude darkness comes on almost immediately after the sun has gone down. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific As Jack spoke, a light patch of white like the wing of a wild-fowl was seen for a moment glancing above the water landward. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure Great was his relief on seeing at length four heads above the surface, with their faces directed landward. The Three Lieutenants The tale went seaward on the gabbards, and landward, even to Lorn itself, upon carriers' carts and as the richest part of the packman's budget. Doom Castle No enemy had yet appeared, and all eyes were turned landward with fiery expectation. The Rifle Rangers A strong landward breeze was rolling the waves one after another as in a merry chase towards the shore, while the Fairport Guard were gathered on the wharf, valiantly fighting a battle with snowballs. The Boy Patriot Still, as far as the eye could reach, the sea was very rough, with heavy rollers rolling in landward. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land She was now on the port tack, stretching obliquely across the bay in a southerly direction, when a startled call from Poole, repeated by all the rest, directed Captain Staunton’s gaze once more landward. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific And if there was no possibility of escaping landward, the only alternative was to escape by going out to sea. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron The two lads in the middle were baling out wildly, pausing every now and then to turn white faces landward, but returning at once to their task. Roger Ingleton, Minor I made my way up, and about to the landward entrance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 The peninsula's landward side was contained by a high stone wall, pierced with gates and guarded by sentries. The Status Civilization It was growing dark outside, and colder, with a rising wind from landward to seaward against the tide. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story As the cheap line stretched almost to the breaking point, the fish circled rapidly landward, then, alarmed by the shoaling water, sped back, close by the pier, for the open lake. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life We came down to the fort on its landward side, but our attack was to be made upon the waterfront, and so we went around that way, on the side farthest from the town. A Jolly Fellowship This ridge ran inland, its slope narrowed on either side between the river and the lake by swamps, and approachable only from landward over the col, where it broadened and dipped to the foothills. Fort Amity When trees are exposed to the prevailing winds of an open sea-coast, they are blown over away from the sea, and make all their growth, such as it is, on the landward side. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular It was apparent that the ship was skirting coastline, because convoy protection had been given by sea-planes flying out from the naval coast stations, accompanying the transport for a distance, then disappearing landward. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces But Belisarius, considering that it was impossible to capture the place from the landward side, ordered the fleet to sail into the harbour, which extended right up to the wall. Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. I said, trying to get a good look landward as the vessel rolled over that way. A Jolly Fellowship The balm of Nirvana shrouded his senses, blotting out thought, as sea mists, rolling landward, obliterate all things. The Great Amulet He gazed landward for a long time and then handed the glass to Jack. Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box Schifanoja was situated on the heights at that point where the chain of hills, after following the curving coast line, took a landward bend and sloped away towards the plain. The Child of Pleasure As the steamer slowly approached the dock, a small group of officers might be discerned, looking as eagerly landward as the men on shore had sought them out. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers But she did not turn her face, and continued gazing landward as at last she echoed the words, "New Caledonia!" The Castle Of The Shadows If a tide ran with heavy surf and wind landward to conceal sound and sight, the hunters lined alongshore of the kelp beds and engaged in the hunt known as surf-shooting. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward They were bringing up more brush from the landward side of the hill, amid a confusion of wild shouts and excited laughter. Cape Cod Folks All the human beings worked with practiced ease, even while masked and submerged, to set the probe in place, aiming it landward at the check point of the Finger's protruding nail of rock. Key Out of Time A solitary albatross, driven landward by stress of weather, rode in vast circles above the ship. The Captain of the Kansas On one side, looking landward, we had a Constable picture: a sky with tumbled clouds, shadowed downs, and forests cleft by a golden mosaic of meadows. Set in Silver A wind was singing in the rigging—threatening a landward gale that might carry the St. Paul somewhat nearer those rocky shores than the Russians could wish. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward To landward there were many gardens and farms, where the Spaniards had "planted many trees from Spain"—such as oranges, lemons, and figs. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. The wreck which had been driven landward was composed of planks, boxes, and containers rolled by the waves' force. Key Out of Time They also provided a dark backdrop, partially hiding the flames on the landward side but undoubtedly making them more visible from the sea. The Time Traders I reached a point where the volcanic hill ran down landward in rounded ridges, and crossed two or three of these: but no sign of human habitation could I discern. Foe-Farrell The landward breeze was now straining the St. Paul's hawsers. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward To landward of the present Panama there is a fine hill, called Mount Ançon. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. It has three tiers of rooms, and from its balconies one can look either landward or on to the river, which at night, with the lights reflected in its water, is very beautiful. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe A soft strange cry from the landward rings— "What ails the sea to shine?" Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Nearer, on the landward side of the dunes to the east, and within less than a mile of each other, were the villages of Westende and Lombaerdzyde. Bruges and West Flanders By way of putting the fear of the Lord and respect for the white man in the heart of the Indian, he trained the swivel of the small boat landward, and fired in midair. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The anxious Spaniards resolved to prepare for the assault by placing their great guns on the landward side of the fortress. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Now, it is evident that the fulcrum point may fall to the seaward or to the landward of the shore; only by chance and here and there would it lie exactly at the coast line. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Then he crossed over to the other side of the vessel, looking landward. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy None, sure, such countless multitudes would deem The mail-clad warriors of an armèd throng: Nay, rather, like a dusky cloud they seem 838 Of sea-fowl, landward driven with many a hoarse-voiced scream. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Life and love seek harbourage on the landward side: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems To landward hilly ground, broken into strips of tillage, where some wretches hoe tobacco under the lash. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Then the deadened sound sweeps landward, and the hearts of the field-folk fail, And they say: Is there death in the Burg, that thence goeth the cry and the wail? The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs The wind was landward, driving the ice back from the straits, and they passed safely into Hudson Bay. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark With another sigh, this time of disappointment, she turned her gaze landward, and beheld there nothing but lank marsh grass and sand and driftwood. Judy The air was glorious, a soft breeze blowing landward from the ocean. Visionaries The town was closely invested on its landward side. South America The big ship was hopelessly astray in the fog and in the grip of a black, unseen current that dragged at her keel and bulging beam, pulling her inexorably landward towards the hidden rocks. The Harbor Master The gray crows climbed the heavens to landward, like flies that climb a window-pane. The Way of the Wild The bridge is down, the waiting crowds rush together, the wharf crowd merging into the deck crowd, and both pouring landward again in an eager flood. Princess Wilkinson suggested a stake driven into the bottom for the deep-sea mooring, and an attachment to the exposed root of the lovely overhanging birch for that to landward. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life For centuries the landward boundaries of Spanish New Granada remained shadowy, indefinite limits. South America She had struck with her port-bow and was listed sharply landward. The Harbor Master The headland was the landward end of a small island, one part of which was thickly wooded. The Stolen Singer They have, no doubt, carried her off by boat, for they could not pass through the landward gate of the town. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars Scrap was silent, glibness of tongue not being among the gifts of the East Tennessee landward bred. The Quickening White as a sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral band was seen, And with a sorrowful deep sound, The river flowed between. The Haunted Hour An Anthology I have a landward tongue,’ said Mrs. Bower. The Disentanglers His fancy was to keep a light burning always by night in the landward window of his cabin, so as to warn sailors off the dangerous headland. The Stolen Singer They at once began to throw up batteries, while the Corsicans harassed the landward approaches to the place. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Later in the evening they again felt their way landward through the fog. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell When steadily steering landward, A ship was seen below, And they knew it was Lamberton, Master, Who sailed so long ago. The Haunted Hour An Anthology ‘From Kinlocharty,’ he said, ‘from the head of the loch, the landward side.’ The Disentanglers By this time all Quebec had been alarmed and, as attack from the landward side was also expected, every man was soon at his post. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 Then an inch of the rope came landward, as the broncho strained upon it. The Furnace of Gold With this instead of returning direct to us, you will make your way to the left, towards the head of the beach, keeping well under the rocks, which will serve you from landward. Poison Island Diether and his little band of warriors ascended the Lorelei’s rock in such a way as to cut off all retreat on the landward side. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine But only the façade landward remains from his time, with the lions' heads, the great hall and the façade seaward dating from 1571, eleven years after Doria's death. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition We stand in the midst of a sea of mountains and look landward across deep valleys in all directions with the ranges rising tier on tier beyond. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 As the two ends of the net reached the bank, the big fish were picked out and thrown landward, while the remainder were brought up with a dip-net made of three blankets. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan In the second place, Finn appeared, climbing from the landward side, in the gap beside which the puppy came to the end of its long tumbling flight. Jan A Dog and a Romance Now the sunset breeze is dying; Hear the plover, landward flying, Softly down the twilight crying; ����Come to anchor, little boatie, ��������In the port of Sleep. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke So much for the extremities, seaward and landward. Corporal Sam and Other Stories Shaping their course to landward once more, the boats kept company, and by the middle of the afternoon Bennett and the crew of the whaleboat successfully landed upon a bleak, desolate, and wind-scourged coast. A Man's Woman The slackened wings dropped, the dying eyes looked landward, and then closed. The Brownies and Other Tales Lord Henry Monckton and Kitty leaned over the baluster and silently watched the rush of the rollers landward and the slink of them back to the sea. The Voice in the Fog Two, in particular, could scarcely restrain their impatience as they looked eagerly landward, though the social gulf that separated them was as wide as the Channel itself. In Friendship's Guise It would be yet more difficult to approach the citadel itself; but the experienced eyes of Wolfe and others saw that the only hope lay in an attack from the landward side. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America Asbiorn said that they were making for the river mouth, and half an hour thereafter we opened it out and saw that Heidrek was far within it, heading landward. A Sea Queen's Sailing Along its landward edge the plumed palms stood sentinel, rustling to the lipping waters and to the curious note of the Thibet-trees, sounding their long dry pods like castanets in the evening breeze. The Flower of the Chapdelaines I swam out into it for a considerable distance, then lay upon my back on, rather than in, the water, and suffered the breeze to waft me landward again. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 But take one of these shore-dwellers, and move him far landward among the mountains, into the loveliest valley you can find; give him the best food, and the softest bed. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel The landward approach was guarded by a strong rampart of felled trees, which the soldiers had formed into a breastwork and abattis which might almost be called musket-proof. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America But the current from landward, where the ship was, increased; silently sweeping her further and further towards the tranced waters beyond. The Piazza Tales Just as we started landward a schooner came round the bluffs bringing the Spaniards. The Flower of the Chapdelaines The landward gate was held by Colonel Howe, the Sir William Howe of our Revolutionary War. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 He had kept his eyes turned to the landward side, for he did not yet feel sufficiently strong to bear the sight of the waves as they came rolling in. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel There were many trees behind it, landward; but none before it, seaward; so that really the tall white house, with its many windows, might well serve as a beacon to passing vessels. Ishmael Or, In the Depths Drusus stood erect in the boat, brushed back the blood that was still streaming over his eyes, and looked landward. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. They were no ordinary bandits, then; or at least had no fear to betray their whereabouts, since on the landward side on so clear a night the glow would be visible for many miles. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 In the valley, to landward of the castle, lay many beautiful gardens. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Of forestal size and unstunted, yet they turn their backs, as it were, upon the west and, yielding to that unsleeping pressure, incline landward. The Spinners Alone of animate things, Captain Vyell's coach-and-six crept forth and along the beach, as though tempted by the promise of a wintry gleam to landward. Lady Good-for-Nothing Hush, restless wave! and landward gently creeping, No longer sullen break; All nature now is still and softly sleeping, And why art thou awake? Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century On higher slopes the tired army held the fire-trenches, with its faces and rifles still turned bravely landward and upward. Tell England A Study in a Generation They were standing on the landward side of the shallow water in which he fought the octopus. The Wings of the Morning The landward side of the beautiful beach is skirted by an almost impenetrable jungle. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 In Pennsylvania it is the mining towns which furnished recruits for this landward movement. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making On the landward side it is dangerously placed, seeing that the stoop of the country runs from the mountains to it. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Bands of pink and crimson clouded the west, a thin cold wash of blue veiled the east; and overhead, bayward, landward, everywhere, the misting and the shadowing of the twilight. Roof and Meadow The fact that the watchman was upon the Rhine side of the Castle greatly favored a stealthy approach from any landward point. The Sword Maker Soft mists rise in summer like "rich distilled perfumes" from the warm Gulf Stream off Long Island Sound and drift landward in invisible airy volumes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 To expel these British, German troops were now advancing from the landward end of the Mole. The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy We reached Blackwater in time for the midnight steamer and drew up at the landward end of the pier. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill His ground tackle was in perfect order on the far, or landward, side; so the Saratoga swung round quite easily. The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 When the French looked landward from their ramparts they could see scarcely a sign of the impending storm. Montcalm and Wolfe At sunset, when the sea was golden and the plain stretched purple away to the south, landward and seaward her eyes would still gaze. Stories of the Border Marches Therefore, Commander Adams instructed Frank to secure the landward side, at the same time instructing Commander Hastings to attack the fortified zone. The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy When we came out at the mouth of the port, where a line of little stunted oaks leaned landward as with the memory of many a winter's storm, Martin said: "Let us sit down here." The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill To the right, as we faced the sea, was the point of Teaehoa jutting out into the great blue plain of the ocean, and landward we looked down on the Valley of Taaoa. White Shadows in the South Seas The landward view was a solitude no longer. Montcalm and Wolfe Swallowed up by wild seas with storm-tossed crests, that race madly landward to dash themselves in blind fury on shoreless cliffs, or sweep resistless over a shingly beach. Stories of the Border Marches The few Germans who were guarding the landward side of the Mole fired one volley at Frank's party, then turned and took to their heels. The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy Instead of attacking simultaneously a portion of the harbor walls and a portion of the landward walls, Venetians and crusaders alike directed their efforts against the defences on the side of the harbor. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) Through the reeds she did indeed pass, but once in the weeds her course wavered and slowed, her feeble strokes no longer sent her landward, and the ice forming around her, stopped her altogether. Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen His guns were mounted on the landward batteries, so as to command the town and any camp that might be formed there for siege purposes. St George's Cross There was, too, an inner wall on the landward side. Ancient Town-Planning High above the rain goose shrieked its melancholy cry, and the sea mews and sheldrakes, even the shear waters and bonxies, flew landward to the shelter of the cliffs. The Pilots of Pomona In many places this bank was covered with scrub and brushwood on the landward side. Whosoever Shall Offend The land trended the least bit outward here, and the direction kept us well under the lee of a rough stone wall that fringed the sands on the landward side. The Indiscretion of the Duchess Shouting and gesticulating and brandishing their spears with the shark's tooth tips, they endeavored to stop its progress landward by pure noise and bravado. The Great Taboo The coast of Ireland had been sighted earlier than had been expected, and there was the usual straining of eyes landward. Story of Chester Lawrence From the deck, as we sailed blithely along, I watched the billows rolling landward and dashing upon the hard rocks, resounding with thunderous noise among the hollow chasms. The Pilots of Pomona In the morning they found that they had been driven to the landward shore of a long island, which formed a natural breakwater to a spacious bay, with a narrow entrance at either end. Stories from the Odyssey Their footsteps are supported by the risen dust, the wind lends them its velocity, they fly like three sea-birds driven landward by the tempestuous breeze. Twice Told Tales The men of the landward parishes set a watch on all that came out of the accursed streets. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 From the veranda, which commands the landward view, the prospect is wide and pleasing. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 As I looked landward, however, I observed something through the growing darkness that excited considerable wonder in my mind. The Pilots of Pomona Flocks of sea-birds were uneasily flying landward; screaming, they wheeled round the sphinx-like rocks, and disappeared by degrees in their red clefts and fissures. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The port of this shelf is to landward, as on that side it winds very much, so as to shut up the haven from all winds from the sea. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Suddenly he struck the water with so violent a dash that the canoe swerved and headed landward. The Wild Olive And landward, what a parallel sea of marshes, bottoms and dunes! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 To-day the seawind is to me A fettered soul that would be free, And dumbly striving after speech The tides yearn landward painfully. The Poems of William Watson The cry of the sentinel at the most distant of the landward posts sounded ominous, like that of a lost bird at night. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 All this day we saw no rocks to landward, but there was a shoal to seaward. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Such would be the country seat when established landward. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul General Grant had early decided that the city would remain impregnable until by some means he could get below it on the river and approach it from the landward side. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II Now the wind blew landward up the firth, yet the carline's root went in the teeth of the wind, and belike it sailed swifter than might have been looked for of it. The Story of Grettir the Strong He was hurrying landward, just as though he had a destination marked out; nevertheless he was going nowhere. The Man Who Laughs But coming to the bank landward, we took in our sails and rowed into a channel within the bank, where we came to anchor. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time But they built a fort at the landward end, and the British could not get out. A Short History of the United States A lake which exists here, on the landward side of the ruins, was, he says, formerly a gulf, and formed the port, "the very good haven," of which our author speaks. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 Now Thorfinn had as yet had no news of the vikings, he bade his men hasten landward, "For I fear," said he, "that friends have not been at work here." The Story of Grettir the Strong The position commands a fine view, both landward and seaward. Somerset What ought chiefly to be attended to in this channel, is always to keep nearer to the shoals that are to seawards, and as far as possible from those to landward. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time I am but a mannerless, landward youth, to have been bred in the outer courts of a palace. Red Axe The country around, for miles, wore the appearance of an interminable and boundless plain, with an almost imperceptible landward elevation, and thickly wooded with stunted trees. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Entering Brandon from the landward front, we found ourselves again in the large central hall. Virginia: the Old Dominion The boat crept southward into the cloud, where only Gaines was dimly visible, flashing and howling landward. Kincaid's Battery A great embankment of morainic material with ice beneath, once part of the glacier, on the lowest slopes of Erebus at the landward end of C. Evans. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I As we could now distinguish both the brothers, we instinctively cheered them on drawing towards the landward side of the rock. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832 Far on the ocean's billowy verge she hung, And strove to shun the storm that landward swung. Poems That morning we saw the landward front of Westover, and straightway forgot all about the more pretentious river front. Virginia: the Old Dominion On his way to the meeting, he glanced at the weather-vane, and, to his surprise, the wind had changed, and it was blowing landward. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer Without an instant's hesitation she swung herself up the steep incline, climbing with a rapidity that swiftly cut off the landward line of retreat. The Obstacle Race All the Colonials could do was to crouch as low as possible, flattening themselves against the landward wall of the trench. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles He was holding above it now, to port and landward. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 It has both a landward and a riverward front, and both alike. Virginia: the Old Dominion From there to a point on the north shore, near La Punta, in a slightly curving line, a high wall was erected for the purpose of defence on the western or landward side. Cuba, Old and New What lovely landward coves and bays—what alder-smothered creeks—what lily-sheeted pools—what sheer steep hillsides, making the water dark and quiet where they hang. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 The path must be followed until it drops into the road leading to the landward village. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The weather would have been oppressively sultry but for the gentle breeze which constantly drifted landward with coolness in its wings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Continuing along the road as we studied the home, we were led around to the landward front and into the midst of the ancient messuage. Virginia: the Old Dominion I took the dark tide-mark for my guide, and began searching landward. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 A thousand yards to landward rose a town With its broad streets, high roofs, and busy marts. Tales of Ind And Other Poems For about half the distance, that is to Abbotsbury, the Fleet makes a brackish ditch on the landward side. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Through all her sixteen landward gates there had set for many years a double tide of empty-handed soldiers hurrying Francewards, and of enriched and laden bands who brought their spoils home. The White Company Upon entering the house in the usual way, from the landward side, the visitor finds himself in a large square hall occupying one corner of the building. Virginia: the Old Dominion Seaward and landward, J. G. Phillips, the Titanic's wireless man, had hurled the appeal for help. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Presently he was in the muddy Malian waters, and the sun was scattering the mist on the landward side. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies A path climbs gradually by an old wind-torn wood up the landward side of Bindon Hill, with gorgeous rearward views across the fields of Monastery Farm to the northern escarpment of the Purbeck Hills. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Driven landward, on the shore we safely light Who in the skiff embarked; while of our band The rest in the split vessel sink outright; Our goods sea-swallowed all. Orlando Furioso Upstairs, a central hallway runs through the house, double doors opening at both riverward and landward ends upon broad porticoes. Virginia: the Old Dominion In that large lustre all our haste surceased, The sail seemed fain to furl, The silent steersman landward turned, And ship and shore set breast to breast. The Poems of Sidney Lanier Then, as subtly, and coldly, and remorselessly as a sea-fog stealing landward, fear crept into her heart. Anne's House of Dreams On the landward side there stands a monument to the poor German lads who fell at Fangalii, just beyond which the passer-by may chance to observe a little house standing back-ward from the road. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa When Roy had gone she sat for a long time in the pavilion, watching a white mist creeping subtly and remorselessly landward up the harbor. Anne of the Island Rude and bare hills embraced the inlet upon either hand; it was enclosed to the landward by a bulk of shattered mountains. In the South Seas When his eyes were clear again he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward. The War of the Worlds Far off to landward came the faint, sleepy clucking of a quail, and the stridulating of unnumbered crickets; a long ripple licked the slope of the beach and slid back into the ocean. Moran of the Lady Letty Close overhead whirled the chariots of the fog, galloping landward, smothering lights, blurring outlines. The Octopus : A story of California The Atlas range, the north-westerly part of the continent, between its seaward and landward heights encloses elevated steppes in places 100 m. broad. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Presently I heard Montgomery's voice shouting, “Right turn!” and they passed with their shouts and howls into the blackness of the landward trees. The Island of Doctor Moreau He moved straight landward through the cottonwoods, followed by the men in single file, but halted them while the rear was still discernible in the green tangle. The Cavalier |
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