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Example sentences for "earthwards"

Lexicographically close words:
earthly; earthquake; earthquakes; earths; earthward; earthwork; earthworks; earthworm; earthworms; earthy
  1. So he told him his story and disclosed to him his case, whereupon the man bowed his head earthwards awhile, then said to him, "Was he who directed thee to me the humpbacked tailor?

  2. How many centuries passed across the cities while thou wast making thy journey none may reckon, for there is no time in the Waste of Nought, but only the hours fluttering earthwards from beyond to do the work of Time.

  3. But when Badr al-Din looked upon his son his vitals yearned and his heart fluttered, and he hung his head earthwards and sought to make his tongue give utterance to his words, but he could not.

  4. Then they kiss the ground before me many times; whereupon I raise my eyes and cast at her one single glance and turn my face earthwards again.

  5. Should he see one swooping earthwards he instantly tracks him down, and is soon at the feast.

  6. After rushing earthwards for two or three thousand feet, the whole aeroplane crumbles up and you see the main portion falling like a stone.

  7. In the morning some of us saw him spin earthwards over Mossy-Face Wood, surrounded by Hun machines.

  8. The travellers would no more be drawn earthwards (as compared with the projectile itself) than we travellers on the earth are drawn sunwards with reference to the earth.

  9. Tich was lying face earthwards near the Crucifix, a rifle shot in the very centre of his head.

  10. The wretched improvised shelters on and into which rain crept, lashed earthwards by a howling wind?

  11. The old woman pondered for a full hour with brow earthwards bent; after which she raised her head and said to him, "O thou beautiful youth, wilt thou indeed keep compact and covenant?

  12. Shall a little bird fall on the snare earthwards and there be no noose about her?

  13. Or doth a little bird fall on the snare earthwards and there be no noose upon her?

  14. They stood outlined very tenderly against the sky; their slender forms still quivered; their feathery hair fell earthwards as they drew themselves together, bending their wayward little heads before the approaching night.

  15. These were caught by unseen hands and the airship was quickly drawn earthwards at far too great a speed to please Sir Reginald Fosterdyke.

  16. Gliding serenely earthwards in perfectly calm air, the "Golden Hind" entered the big shed prepared for her reception.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earthwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.