How To Use Landwards In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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“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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He turned away, and, looking from Helena landwards, he said, smiling peculiarly:
The Trespasser
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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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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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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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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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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.
