In the essentially complementary character of interior and periphery are rooted all these coastward and landward movements of expansion.
The same result follows where no barrier on the land side exists, but where a granitic or glaciated soil in the interior discourages agriculture and landward expansion, as in Brittany, Maine, and Newfoundland.
In the same way the landward rim of the tidal waters and salt marshes of the Humber inlet was described by a semicircle of British and Roman towns--Doncaster, Castleford, Todcaster, and York.
On the other hand, that growing people which finds its coastward advance blocked, and is therefore restricted to landward expansion, seizes upon every natural feature that will aid its purpose.
North of Chesapeake Bay the lure to landwardadvance was the fur trade.
Farther back, on thelandward side of our unobtrusive street, commercial and nautical elements were more mingled with things appertaining to domestic life.
They all felt that a few minutes would decide whether this terrible rush landward would terminate in safety or disaster, and they knew that everything, as far as human skill had to do with it, depended on Bax.
From this Castle or landward side come Friedrich and his Prussians, on Monday morning about eight.
The soft rain is often followed by a stiff, heady breeze, sucked inlandward from the ocean.
The mountains came, at this point, down to the sea; a great chain rising landward and covered with firs, standing a primeval forest.
The smoke crawled lazily in thinner whisps along the sky landward from her funnels.
In a long bay that cut deep into the landward shore Amos Swan had found a pebbly beach a score of yards in length, where a boat could be run in at any tide.
Jeremy looked away up the bay where he could still see the speck of white sail that showed his father hurrying landward on a long tack with the west wind abeam.
To the boys, who knew little of the geography of the coast and nothing of Bonnet's plans, it was something of a surprise when the man at the tiller of the James, which was in the lead, swung her head over to landward one morning.
It was dark when we climbed up the stiff Jacob's ladder along the landward side of the white Kinsembo bluff.
Able to bring pressure upon China from the landward side, she was not deterred by the naval predominance which this alliance enjoyed, and she still hoped to control Manchuria, and to dominate the policy of China.
They were not even required to raise troops for the defence of their own frontiers except of their own free will, and the main burden of defending even their landward frontier was borne by the mother-country.
Lord Thomas Percy, a cadet of Alnwick, famous already for the high spirit of that house which for ages was the bar upon the landward gate of England, showed his blue lion rampant as leader of the Grace Dieu.
With their great sails slued round to catch the wind they ran out, whilst the Spanish, like the gallant foes that they have ever been, turned their heads landward to meet them.
With purpose in his steps Blythe now moved rapidly through the town by way of its landward environs.
He drew his cutlass belt to another buckle hole, roused his dozing crew, and in a quarter of an hour El Nacional was tacking swiftly down coast in a stiff landward breeze.
His boat rose and fell on the glassy undulations, but moved not towards the shore, save by the slow landwardheave of the sea.
Landward lie the villages of Mabe and Constantine, with their great granite quarries, and beyond them wide expanses of undulating and treeless land that is not devoid of beauty.
On the smooth face of the landwardslope of one of the larger islands there are two orifices looking like the slit of a letter-box.
The rock is almost severed by a fissure opening towards the sea: a wave surges in and spurts from the orifices on the landward side, then recedes and sucks the air back through them.
The landward end of the boathouse seemed to be completely wrapped in flames.
This, bringing her nearer the landward end of the boathouse made the boat's danger greater than if she had been left on the skids which had supported her while the work inside her hulk was going on.
The window was perhaps a dozen feet along the wall from the landward end of the building.
Ebenezer Zane, the founder of Wheeling, had just opened across Ohio the famous landward route from the Monongahela country to Kentucky, which it entered at Limestone, the present Maysville.
As each of the men reaches the stern, he crosses to the other side, runs along it and comes again to the landwardside of the bow, when he recommences operations.
A ring-dike and canal must then be constructed around the landward side of the basin, to exclude and carry off the freshwater streams which now empty into it.
Kohl observes that the shore on the landward side of the files of dunes often trembles from the shock of the waves on the beach, [Footnote: Inseln und Marschen, etc.
The older city, including both the Zealand and Amager portions, was formerly surrounded by a complete line of ramparts and moats; but pleasant boulevards and gardens now occupy the westward or landwardsite of fortifications.
A country lad opens a gate giving access to a rough meadow, flanked by the remains of barbican walls and ruined bastions; traversing which we presently draw rein before the broad, landward front of the castle.
The massive towers and ivy-curtained walls crown a bold and rocky eminence, that rises abruptly from the tidal waters of Milford Haven; sweeping around the landward face of the promontory, and enclosing a broad and spacious castle garth.
The flat, featureless character of the landward view enhances by contrast the attractions of the iron-bound coast; upon whose wild, fantastic crags and beetling precipices, the traveller gazes in undivided admiration.
When the French looked landward from their ramparts they could see scarcely a sign of the impending storm.
Jacob looked through the aperture on the landward side and saw pleasant things.
Built back round the arches, on their landward side, ran a wooden paling, high enough to hide a man kneeling behind it from the view of the birds on the lake.
Still led by the child, we had passed through the last street--we were out on the empty open space which was the landward boundary of the harbor.
Skirting the further edge of the warren, a wide rutted side lane leads down to the landward end of the said causeway from the village green, just opposite Deadham post office and Mrs. Doubleday's general shop.
The landwarddefences had never been strong; and he had not been able to do more than patch them up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clockwise; counterclockwise; homeward; leeward; leftward; rightward; seaward; windward
