How To Use Landward In A Sentence
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The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast.
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Shall I sing how at the first Leto bare you to be the joy of men, as she rested against Mount Cynthus in that rocky isle, in sea-girt Delos — while on either hand a dark wave rolled on landwards driven by shrill winds — whence arising you rule over all mortal men?
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The cities of Padua and Verona were wiped from the face of the earth; and the last glories of Venice sank for ever beneath the sea as the waters of the Adriatic came - thundering landwards after the hammer-blow from space.
Rendezvous With Rama
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It is overlain by the lower shale member, which consists of interbedded carbonaceous shale and lignite that accumulated in coastal marsh and swamps landward of the shoreline.
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On the landward side it was now white-capped mountain ranges, ranks of huge mountains that joined with the chain running down the centre of the continent.
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Their first victory, at the Alma six days later, enabled them to continue south around Sebastopol from the landward side to Balaclava, so establishing a partial siege of the base.
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Their findings, published by The Geographical Journal today, shows that the more rapid landward retreat of the low water mark relative to the high water mark is the most alarming trend.
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The brown waters of the tidal Thames rise to the abrupt, rock-armoured base of the sea wall, topped by an unrelenting five-foot-high concrete fortification and a long, landward, manicured grass slope.
Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
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Anticlinal structures that include some landward-verging reverse faults (referred to as antithetic) are produced, with create the tectonic ridges that you can see in the bathymetric map in Figs. 7 and 8 above.
Clastic Detritus
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Rational Review
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In its landward migration, the dragon nymph is strictly a pedestrian.
How to Catch Trout on a Fly Rod with Dragon- and Damselfly Imitations
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Your village is small and remote, extremely difficult to reach because it is isolated from the world by the treacherous currents offshore and the high mountains landward.
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One site on the landward side of the fjord was an almost vertical wall leading down to a ledge at 30m, where we were told we should find large sea spiders and basket stars.
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Wave erosion drives the sea cliff landward creating a planar, gently seaward-dipping bedrock platform.
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On the landward side of the harbour, a series of wharves and porticoes were built to accommodate traders and the storage of goods in transit.
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Some of it flowed landward towards the shore and into the deeper rip feeder channels.
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Just yards away, fire brigade diving boats were manoeuvring on the landward side of the Costa Concordia as the search continued for survivors.
Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour
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Then he gathered the cords together and haled away at it, but found it weighty; and however much he drew it landwards, he could not pull it up; so he carried the ends ashore and drove a stake into the ground and made the net fast to it.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Typically, the postglacial biotic migrations were much greater than just the distances landward from synglacial positions of the strandline directly offshore.
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Shields "to see some women," they would probably have gone down to their graves, seawards or landwards, under the pleasing illusion that the ganger was a man of like indulgent passions with themselves.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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That dark, dreary horizon we just discern to the left is the West Bay, terminated landwards by the Chesil
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Rational Review
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But it will be sited on the landward side of the expected crack in the shelf, rather than on solid ground.
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It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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But when Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita's forces came down from the Malay Peninsula instead, the guns were trained landwards to little avail.
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At last she was able to take her eyes from the surf and gaze at the sea-horizon of deepest peacock-blue and piled with cloud-masses, at the curve of the beach south to the jagged point of rocks, and at the rugged blue mountains seen across soft low hills, landward, up Carmel Valley.
CHAPTER VI
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His burning vessel was drifting landwards, neither the sole firefighting hose nor the bow anchor could be reached beyond the wall of flame, and there was insufficient time to unbolt the sea-cocks and scuttle the ship.
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Large, relatively well-preserved bivalve shells, rhodoliths and nodular bryozoans (several centimetres in size) occur together with volcanic pebbles, at the front of the landward-dipping beds.
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There was a quincunx of springs, the waters of which were believed by many to be a cure for a multiplicity of ills, to be found in the shrine in the centre of the town and, beyond the locks of the river (which flowed east, to the city of Landward), were the parlours of the wonder-workers.
One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
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Visitors already on the rock were looking landwards at the strange spectacle of the bare stretch they had crossed on boats only moments ago.
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For example Sir Hal Colebatch's first major speech in the Senate, on November 22, 1929, had urged Australia to help fund completion of the base, including landward defences.
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Then breaking waves began to roll him slowly landward and finally spit him on to the beach.
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It was because of this close environmental unity instilled by the nature of their calling that they lacked landward interest.
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In fact, the landscape could better be described as a moonscape: the flat sand plain, the occasional meteorite crater, and of course the chain of mountains guarding the landward approach about a half mile inland.
Seven Deadly Wonders
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Rational Review
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Lemanus (Hythe), a spit of shingle, whose bay, north-east and south-west, forms an inner lagoon, bounded landwards by conspicuous and weather-tarnished red cliffs.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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My room was on the landward side of Chapuis, so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart.
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Pelham used artillery brought by sea and within two days had battered down the bawn and the western landward side of the castle.
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Shall I sing how at the first Leto bare you to be the joy of men, as she rested against Mount Cynthus in that rocky isle, in sea-girt Delos — while on either hand a dark wave rolled on landwards driven by shrill winds — whence arising you rule over all mortal men?
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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So, we settled for a leisurely snorkel on the landward edge of the main channel, with John swimming around us and aiming his spear gun at pretty much everything that moved.
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The volcanoes burst to the surface landwards of the ocean trench, rising as they do from the depths of the subduction zone.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
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In Norfolk they are to be seen most regularly in the neighbourhood of Cley and Blakeney, on the landward slopes of shingle banks and on rough grassy ground behind.
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A raiding fleet might ravage the docks, if it could strike with numbers enough, but no seaborne force could breach those walls so long as the defenders had strength to man them, and the landward fortifications were even more imposing.
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“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
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We now have a more reasonable definition of what the high-water mark is, and what the marine area is on the landward side.
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There is a reedbed on the landward side of the grazing-marsh.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a reedbed on the landward side of the grazing-marsh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steep profiles usually consist of a marked landward ridge, usually referred to as the berm, which forms the landward limit of wave swash.
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This is evidence of a transgression, meaning that as the Bright Angel Shale was being deposited the sea gradually moved landward.
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Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
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Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
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Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
Chile Looks for Survivors
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The cutting of the wood and the depasturing of the grasses upon the sand-dunes converted them from solid bulwarks against the ocean to loose accumulations of dust, which every sea-breeze drove farther landward, burying, perhaps, fertile soil and choking up water-courses on one side, and exposing the coast to erosion by the sea upon the other.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
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Engagement on the high seas occurs infrequently, and almost always because one side is moving to attack landward targets and the other is trying to prevent it.
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The relict coastal barriers, typically up to 30 m above the general level of the coastal plain and up to 10 km apart, occur sub-parallel to the modern coastline, and to each other, and increase in age landwards.
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The connection with the SuIa Sgeir Fan is clearly marked by a re-entrant at the shelf edge, shown by the landward deviation of the 150 m isobath.
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They pass landwards, with increasing grain size, into sands with larger-scale ripple cross-stratification and ultimately into cross-bedded sands and plane-bedded sands formed by breaking waves.
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Multimedia Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
Chile Seeks International Aid
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It flows to Smuggler's Rock," said Andy, "but we swing landwards before we get there, to the Cliff of Birds.
The Adventurous Four Again
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The area spans one-third of Scotland's landmass and one-eighth of landward Britain.
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Site 863 is located at the toe of the landward trench slope above the subducted Chile Ridge, just south of the Chile Triple Junction.
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On the landward side it was now white-capped mountain ranges, ranks of huge mountains that joined with the chain running down the centre of the continent.
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landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands
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The coastal contours curve into the distance on all sides of the site, with Snowdonia's dramatic mountains providing the landward backdrop.
The 10 best campsites for views
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Also worth getting the tides right, so you can pop down to the beach under the headland and see Merlin's Cave - a huge cave going right through, under the landward end of the headland by the isthmus.
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Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter.
Chapter 21
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Besides, Guy's army could not begin to cut off supplies from the landward side.
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It is marked off at the rear, on the landward edge, by an old railroad cutting.
Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
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It is overlain by the lower shale member, which consists of interbedded carbonaceous shale and lignite that accumulated in coastal marsh and swamps landward of the shoreline.
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The landward extent of the embayment fill abuts the western side of the Woakwine Range, a Pleistocene barrier.
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The periodic landward and seaward movement of the shore across the coastal plain can be seen in the landforms of the ACE Basin such as relict dune ridges and marsh plains.
Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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These natural buffers protected the landward side, sheltering coastal communities and wildlife from the brunt of storms and waves.
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We see an angler fish within a minute of reaching the bottom, many tompots under the plating, and wrasse and dragonets in the coarse sand to the landward side of the wreck.
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He turned away, and, looking from Helena landwards, he said, smiling peculiarly:
The Trespasser
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Turning his head slowly, he followed the sky-line, pausing especially when his eyes rested landward on the brown Contra
CHAPTER XVI
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That he allotted the hardest tasks to Agravain may not have been coincidence, but the latter said nothing, hung on to the bucking rope, and helped to bring the lively boat about and send it skimming landwards, rocking in the spreading wake of the King's ship.
The Wicked Day
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Out in the fjord I dragged myself up once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town — to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes.
Hunger
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It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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It is overlain by the lower shale member, which consists of interbedded carbonaceous shale and lignite that accumulated in coastal marsh and swamps landward of the shoreline.
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This will allow the landward area behind to be filled in and used for the art gallery's extension.
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These are often ephemeral, so they need to grow legs and crawl landward as quickly as possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beating out aweather, against the gentle landward breeze he beheld a great ship on their starboard bow, that he conceived to be some three or four miles off, and -- as well as he could judge her at that distance -- of
Captain Blood
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The lack of opposition to the establishment of sea control has permitted the few large and powerful navies to reorient their focuses in a landward direction.
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At last she arose, and when she had plucked and eaten some handfuls of the strawberries which grew plenteously on the sweet ground of the eyot, she went down to the landward-looking shore, and took the water, and swam slowly across the warm ripple till she came once more to the strand and her raiment.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Intensified upwelling would enhance aridity along the west coast of South America by preventing moist air masses of the Pacific anticyclone from encroaching landwards.
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The Atlantic, or passive, type has a stable continental block on the landward side that has been little deformed since Palaeozoic times.
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