| 单词 | landwards |
| 例句 | It was far above high-water mark, and conveniently placed for refuge, being accessible landwards only by the rocky channel, and wholly hidden from observation at sea. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z This band is walled to landwards by a wall of dark forest, mounted against the sky to seaward by a wall of white surf; beyond that there is the horizon-bounded ocean. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The perpetual forest hems the city in on all sides landwards; and, towards the suburbs, picturesque country-houses are seen scattered about, half buried in luxuriant foliage. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Behind the cliff, which showed up whiter than ever, an immense bank of cloud was extended as far as we could see landwards, but only occupying a portion of the sky on both sides. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z De Vere himself seldom vouchsafed a single glance landwards; he seemed to busy himself wholly and solely with the many strange instruments with which he was surrounded. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Looking landwards, I saw by the agitation of the waves that the shoal extended well towards the shore, the distance between being but a few hundred yards. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z “The old place looks just the same as it did five years ago,” said Tom to himself as he leaned over the bulwarks, gazing landwards. The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z At each side of the gully the black rocks towered like walls above the hulk, but landwards, a green bank, of easy ascent, sloped up to the well-wooded table-land above. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Then the light was raised and swept away landwards. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The invisible flocks of sea-birds flying landwards, true precursors of a storm, wailed and shrieked in curiously weird cadence, like the ghosts of shipwrecked mariners. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z When within twenty yards of the shore the boat was turned till her stern pointed landwards. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z They thus skirt the Frozen Ocean from near the Lena delta to and beyond the Kolyma, and are conterminous landwards with the Yakuts on the south-west and the Chukchi on the north-east. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Nay, if a shifting wind but carried the ashes landwards, blight or murrain would follow surely. The Unknown Sea The term is particularly applied to the light wind blowing landwards by day, “sea-breeze,” and the counter wind, blowing off the land at night, “land-breeze.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Large shoals of small fish were rushing landwards in great commotion, leaping from the water, crowding on each other, and shewing all the common symptoms of flight from the pursuit of some wicked enemy. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The strip of burning water between them and the town narrowed rapidly, and the group set their faces firmly landwards. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 He set his face landwards and thrust all uncertainty from him. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real He held the old lady aloft, on one arm, shouting, as he pointed landwards— 'Look, mither, look! the Promised Land! Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure It was isolated, and, being slightly greater in elevation than the cliffs of the mainland in the immediate vicinity, would effectually screen any ray of light sent landwards from the expected German submarine. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Back of these are scraggly spruces, with branches which have been so long blown landwards that they have bent and grown altogether on that side,—permanent weather-vanes of Fundy’s storms. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year He raised one of his brown, hairy hands, and jerked a thumb landwards. Ravensdene Court It was here Mrs. Orban and Eustace went after dinner, for the day had been exhaustingly hot, and now a slight breeze blew landwards. Queensland Cousins Amidst words of gratitude and with praise on their lips to a merciful God, the utterly exhausted crew saw the Deal men set sail and fight their way again through the storm landwards. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands What then were these masses which floated landwards, rising and falling with the undulations of the waves? Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery I looked landwards, in the expectation of seeing some vessels come out of the harbour, which, I thought, could not be far off, but none appeared. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures And he stopped and looked landwards, where the indistinct grey blur was beginning to take the pattern of fields and cliffs and beach. By Berwen Banks Some black objects bobbing up and down in the distance were pointed out to me as porpoises, and a good many sea-gulls went by, flying landwards. We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Between her and the land would be about 100 fathoms, or 200 yards of water; but that water was one furious mass of advancing billows hurled landwards by this great tempest. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands They allow themselves to be herded and driven off landwards from the hauling-ground for half a mile to the killing-ground, and, finally, with most cheerful indifference, permit the Aleuts to club their brains out. The Extermination of the American Bison His face, too, shone with pleasure as he gazed landwards. The Black Box With choking breath and blinded eyes he felt himself carried on the crest of a wave, which bore him landwards, but only to be drawn back again by its receding swell. By Berwen Banks Then he had wandered on, past the storm-bent tree at the turn of the road pointing landwards. The Betrayal One large vessel, the ship Glendura, having parted her anchors in the great sea that was running, was driving landwards. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands To dame Isolda says the servant of Tristan, our hero true:— Behold our flag is flying! it waveth landwards aloft: in Mark's ancestral castle may our approach be seen. Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts It was as if this was the primeval ooze from which the first life stirred and crawled landwards to begin to make this a memorable star. The Judge Both men were now sitting erect, looking to right, to left, seawards, landwards, towards the hills. Round the World in Seven Days Then he slung four rifles across his shoulders, asked Iris to carry the remaining two in like manner, and began to manoeuvre the raft landwards. The Wings of the Morning As they worked away from the shore there came in, borne landwards and towards them by the gale, the dull deep roar of the surf on the Goodwins. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Before sundown he saw the tall figure of the sorceress wending landwards. The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century Landing at the Bolivian side of Puerto Perez, the immense plateau which covers all the centre of Bolivia stretches out on all sides landwards, until it meets the inner and higher range of the Cordilleras. Argentina from a British Point of View We are open to the S.E. winds, though these blow over the bank from landwards. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Ye speak me true, my leetle son, So—so, it came to me, A-drifting landwards on a spar, And grey dawn on the sea. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. What could appear to be a more fortuitous spectacle of collision and confusion than a great ocean breaker thundering landwards, with a wrack of flying spray and tossing crests? The Silent Isle Down below, through the mist, boats were shooting landwards from the transports, bringing more men, stores of all kinds, ammunition, and materials for setting up a wireless installation. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles That dark, dreary horizon we just discern to the left is the West Bay, terminated landwards by the Chesil Beach.' A Pair of Blue Eyes Egyptian culture had, however, remarkably little direct influence on the rest of the continent, a result due in large measure to the fact that Egypt is shut off landwards by immense deserts. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 When I re-entered after a while, I saw from the windows, which looked sea-ward, that the wind had risen, and was driving thin drifts no longer, but great, thick, white masses of sea-fog landwards. The Vicar's Daughter Look landwards from the water—purple Apennines are ever in sight. Alone Here they also were summarily stopped by perpendicular rocks on either side, and by the deep gorge or crevasse, shedding seawards and landwards, upon whose further side rose the "Parrot's Beak." The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Remain yourself at the moorings, and keep a look-out landwards as well as to sea.” An Antarctic Mystery Through a light fog all that could be seen landwards was a steep, sloping, icy surface descending from the interior, and terminating abruptly in a seaward cliff fifty to two hundred feet in height. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Under ordinary circumstances, sand banks are always rolling, landwards, and they compose the magazine from which the material for the dunes is derived. The Earth as Modified by Human Action While at Bellegra, this afternoon, I gazed landwards to where, in the Abruzzi region, the peaks are still shrouded in snow. Alone Alarmed and irresolute, Cleer sat down on the rock, and facing landwards for awhile, waved her handkerchief to and fro to attract, if possible, her father's attention. Michael's Crag Great flocks of clangorous birds, breasting the wind and hardly moving their wings, passed us in the midst of the fogs, petrels, divers, halcyons, and albatross, bound landwards, as though to show us the way. An Antarctic Mystery The oars dipped and the boat crept slowly landwards. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell At the same time, as the sand-hills moved landwards, the ocean was closely following their retreat and swallowing up the ground they had covered, as fast as their movement left it bare. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Gazing landwards, nothing met his eye save jagged precipices of fearful height, tormented rifts and gulleys scorched by fires of old into fantastic shapes, and descending confusedly to where the water slept in monster-haunted caverns. South Wind Then Mrs. Cosgrove took leave of them, and walked landwards with her companions. The Odd Women He had nothing to say but what seemed natural and civil; the dialogue—Nancy remained mute—occupied but a few minutes, and Tarrant went his way, sauntering landwards. In the Year of Jubilee As the afternoon wore on they turned landwards again, and towards evening found themselves coasting a mountainous island lying to the south of Hrossey. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell All the buildings at the extremity of the peninsula have been taken down and rebuilt farther landwards, and the lighthouse of the Grave now occupies its third position. The Earth as Modified by Human Action The day was not very bright, and mist spoiled the view landwards. Thyrza When they reach an intermediate hill some pause and look back; others enter on the next decline landwards without turning their heads. The Dynasts The perpetual forest hems the city in on all sides landwards; and towards the suburbs, picturesque country houses are seen scattered about, half buried in luxuriant foliage. The Naturalist on the River Amazons "It is all over with us," the captain cried in desperation; he had pointed his telescope landwards, and saw not a sign from the shore. A Woman of Thirty He rose from the line of the breakers that belch upon the shore, and swam outside, ever looking landwards, to find, if he might, spits that take the waves aslant, and havens of the sea. The Odyssey Done into English prose Instead, however, he paused at the corner of the building with his face turned landwards. The Vanished Messenger |
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