Mr. Holmes suggests that in this case the conception is that of four conch shells united in one vessel, the spouts being turned inwards and the spires outwards.
They are gradually being pushed inwardsby the coast people.
He pressed the head inwards as he said those words.
His flaming eyes were buried in his foe's feathers, his jaws were steadily working inwards toward her vitals.
The weasel, maintaining his deadly grip and working inwards like a bull-dog, had hunched up his lithe little body so that she could not reach it with her talons.
He secured a hold just under one wing, where the armour of feathers was thinnest, and began to gnaw inwards with his keen fangs.
At that moment An fell, having fought for some time, with his inwards coming out.
She had in one hand a short sword, and in the other a trough; she drove the sword into my breast and cut open all the belly, and took out all my inwards and put brushwood in their place.
Then I dreamed of the same woman as before, and methought she now took the brushwood out of my belly and put my own inwards in instead, and the change seemed good to me.
It is wanted, he will remember, to give weight to those side stones, and draw them inwards against the thrust of the top stone.
The Gain of Stability The movement of the spiritual life as not only directed towards the outside but also turned inwards towards itself gained for us a greater independence.
Thus ultimately he does not look inwards from outside, but outwards from within; and his limitation is not the chief thing, but the secondary.
Of no great breadth upon the summit, it tends to circleinwards on the north of the town, which it screens from the river.
On either side of us, but more especially on our left hand, the rounded contours of the basal slopes were curving inwards to a wide depression, up the trough of which we rode.
You are always winding inwards to avoid the heaps of boulders, or emerging on the backs of gigantic blocks of lava towards the margin of the shining slope.
These eruptive centres, long since dormant, are seen in the shape of low convexities, stretchinginwards from the brink of the cliff.
The cooling crust shrinks and gathers inwards towards the centre; but the material of which it consists is inelastic and is thrown into gigantic wrinkles or folds.
Just as on the west we were constrained to draw the natural frontier inwards from the spine of the Pontic range, so on the east the next successors of the Trialethian ridges lie outside the proper boundary of the Armenian plains.
If you entered elsewhere, the dog while ranging would be tempted, from the natural bearing of his nose towards the wind, to come back upon you, making his first turn inwards instead of outwards.
This plan, though so injudicious in the case of pointers or setters, is but little objectionable in the case of spaniels, for spaniels in their small sweep inwards are not likely to spring game while the guns are unloaded.
Side of the tail are Something Shorter and bend with their extremities inwards towards the center of the tail.
Inches with the barrel of the quill; those sides of the tail are something shorter and bend with their extremeties inwards towards the center of the tail.
The windows were French, double in winter, opening both inwards and outwards, with sliding panes for ventilation.
Bears' nests abounded, consisting of a kind of arbour which the bear makes for himself in the top of the loftiest beech trees, by dragging inwards all the upper branches laden with their wealth of nuts, upon which he feasts at leisure.
It is well known that our steamers engaged in the foreign trade have enormously swelled the entries, both inwards and outwards, during the last two years.
In the upper jaw, however, the corner teeth are much larger than the middle ones; they are farther apart from their neighbours, and they terminate in a conical point curved somewhat inwards and backwards.
A few feet beyond its top, therefore, on the level ground, Tom set his men to build a strong stockade across the path, with a total length of some thirty feet, and curved inwards at each end in order to permit of a flanking fire.
Protected from external assault by the stakes, they had faced inwards at his order, and taken the encroaching Arabs in flank.
The edge of the wing on the outer side was inclined to the horizon--one wing elevated, the other depressed--as the bird leaned inwardslike a train going round a curve.
The door was pressed inwards in spite of Jack's exertions; there was greater force on the other side.
It sank inwards with the opening of the window, and Guy's face white as death, with staring, senseless eyes, lay upturned to the lamplight.
Then, when she had seen him go and the swirling dust had begun to settle again, she turned inwards and proceeded to wash the glass that the Boer had used with an expression of fixed disgust.
If animals have died, they take the inwards of one of them or of an animal of the same kind slaughtered for the purpose; but if that is not possible they take the inwards of a cock, by preference a black one.
When anything living is bewitched in a house, for example, children or animals, they burn or boil the nobler inwards of animals, especially the hearts, but also the lungs or the liver.
When they are stimulated waves of change are transmitted inwards to the great nerve-centres; they are there co-ordinated, and issue thence to muscles or glands.
Thence the explosive waves of change passed inwards to the brain, and somewhere therein gave rise to mental products.
To this central nervous system, as it is called, nerves (afferent nerves) run inwards from the recipient organs.
But the sensations are referred outwards to the normal source of origin of impressions, the effects of which were carried inwards by the nerve affected.
The rays are therefore bent inwards and thrown back upon the person at S in the form of a cone of energy which has the effect of producing auto-hypnosis.
The passive seer, on the other hand, remains in a static condition, open to impressions coming inwards upon the mind's eye, but making no conscious effort towards inward searching.
It will be found that the sight is presently drawn inwardsto a focus beyond the surface of the agent.
But if you choose, you make proclamation that I am given now body and inwards to you, and if they continue to offend your pride in this matter, you may take your culprits, and give them over to the tormentors.
But let me see Nais given over to the fury of that wanton woman, and I shall have no inwards left, except to take my vengeance, and to see Atlantis piled up in ruins as her funeral-stone.
My bones ached, my eyes ached, and most of all, my inwards ached.
My inwards speak; indeed they are full of speech; but I cannot translate into bald cold words what they say.
Get away, and let me fight you fairly, or by my honour I'll stamp the inwards out of you, and make your silly crew wear them as necklaces.
After all the scheming and effort, what I had so ardently prayed for had come about; but yet my inwards sank at the thought of mounting on the stone where I had mounted before, and taking my dear from the hollow where my hands had laid her.
I could see, in fancy, their rude, cruel hands thrust upon her as she lay there helpless, and my inwards dried up at the thought.
The walls inclined inwards to the roof, reminding me of an architecture I had seen before but could not recollect where, and moreover there were several rooms connected up with passages.
We are as we are made, and we cannot change our inwards which move us.
The crowd hustled inwards with such greediness to seize what they could, that none had space to draw back elbow for a thrust, and we two kept a circle round us by sheer whirling of steel.
They would taste good to him, for he had not been given a single thing all day long, and he was so hungry that his inwards stuck to his ribs.
He did so, for he was not afraid, and made his way into the troll's inwards where he was so active that the troll was soon killed.
The occludent segment is bluntly pointed; it is directed a little inwards from the edge of the orifice towards the terga; the apex reaches up just above the slightly reflexed lower point of the terga.
It is also probable, that the action of the cirri of the hermaphrodite, would tend to draw inwards the spermatozoa in the right direction.
We begin on the lowest level with our external needs, and go upwards and inwardsto removal of sin, exemption from temptation, and complete deliverance from evil.
Micah begins at the other end, and starting with the lesser, the more external, the purely human, works his way inwards to that which is the centre and the source of all.
The cheek-teeth strongly curved, forming from the base to the summit about a quarter of a circle, the concavity being directed outwards in the upper and inwards in the lower teeth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
