The eager exultation of his speech Earthward recalled the thoughts of Thalaba.
The grating of the heavy hinge Roused not the Arabian youth; Nor lifted he his earthward face At sound of coming feet.
III White culmination of the dreams of earth, Thy splendour beacons to a loftier goal, Where, slipping earthward from the great new birth, The shadowy senses leave the essential soul!
He ought to be dropping earthward at several miles a minute.
It movesearthward in steep dives and circles, and as it swoops closer, takes on the shape of an airplane.
It was his mother's voice that he heard, singing-low a cradle-sweet song, and putting back her white hair that she might look earthward to her love.
And the gods whispered one to another, and turning Their faces earthward They all wept.
They that have sent me on my earthward journey I would greet on my returning, if not as a King coming again to his own city, yet as one who having been ordered had obeyed, and obeying had merited something of those for whom he toiled.
There the soul of the beggar Yeb sat long, then, breathing deep, set off on his great journey earthward adown the crystal steps.
Then the gods pointed earthward and sent that soul into the fields of men to live in the body of a slave.
Underwood sat down in the deep chair that would hold his body restfully while his abasic senses swept Earthward to envelop and crush the anachronism that he had turned upon civilization.
As the long days in space passed while they sped Earthward at incredible velocities, the physicists and engineers turned the Lavoisier into a deadly warship, the equal of any in their fleet.
A sudden blossom of flame sent up a plume of black smoke and the flier nosed Earthward without its occupants knowing what had struck.
We had partly circled the Moon so as now to approach it from the Earthward side.
We hung at last, hull down, facing the Earthward hemisphere of the Lunar disc.
He was supposed to be upon the Earthwardside of the Moon.
And beneath these low-streaming clouds, slanting earthward in broad, down-pouring rays, is a pure white light upon the mountains.
And though we gaze with seeking vision through the shadow into the ultimate blue above, the haze draws its protecting garment thicker, closer about the treasure-house of Nature, and the sun darts amber lances earthward to blind aspiring eyes.
They were miles apart, but speeding Earthward on very nearly identical courses.
If it were intercepted 500 miles down, it would be rising at an almost leisurely rate, and Joe and the Chief could check theirEarthward plunge and match its rising rate.
Out the ports to Earthwardthere was purest blackness.
On the instant there was a flash of dazzling green light from a point not a hundred miles from our position, a flash that was followed by a streaking pencil of the same light shooting earthward with terrific velocity.
We were still at about ten miles distance from the great ring and the streaking light pencils were speeding earthward at the rate of one a minute now.
There was a fallen tree--not long fallen--which in its earthward crash had hit another smaller tree, partly uprooting the latter so that it leaned at a perilous angle over a dry gully below.
Probably, also, it had been taught to follow its master; and, indeed, had followed in one superb plunge earthward in the wake of a dead man in a stricken plane.
They had learned how to volplane earthward from a dizzy height with absolute safety, when conditions were just right, and necessity required a quick descent.
They entered the circle; their anthem ceased; The Druids their eyes bent earthward still: On Patrick's brow the glory increased As a sunrise brightening some sea-beat hill.
And the earth-mist and the vapours of evening were glad at the voice of the earth-worms, and looking earthward believed what they had said.
The strong earthwardpull is ever acting on us, and, unless God hold us up, we too shall slide downwards.
Almost before the sergeant had wound in the aerial the battleplane was ready for her earthward glide.
With his eyes fixed upon the dials of the manometer he gauged the earthward flight.
An aeroplane may fly into such a disturbed area and fall suddenly a distance of many feet, through being caught and swept earthward in a rapidly descending current.
Then clashed the meeting edges with Sigmund's latest stroke, And in shivering shards fell earthward that fear of worldly folk.
Besides it's pointing Earthward and sunward; not toward the Belt, where most of the real mean folks are.
Ions jetting from the Earthward hub-ends of the rotating rings, yielded their steady few pounds of thrust.
Dave spat the last out in disgust as the three remaining Messerschmitts continued racing earthward as fast as their whirling props could take them.
Dave kept his eyes on the seemingly lifeless figure floating earthward with his parachute, and held the Spitfire in its dive until he was down close.
One of the other Messerschmitt pilots, apparently rocketing his planeearthward in terror, plowed straight into the parachute silk of his Luftwaffe comrade.
Now it happened that the universal lord, Sa Kyah, who rules over all spirits and men looked earthward and saw the new kingdom that was established; he became jealous and determined to kill Hsin Kyan and take his kingdom away from him.
The next moment the robber would have gotten his spoil, and this wonderful story would never have been told, but just then the great lord Sa Kyah looked earthward and saw the tragedy that was taking place.
V--THE TUTOR OF LOVE Great Cypris stood beside me, while still I slumbered, and with her beautiful hand she led the child Love, whose head was earthward bowed.
