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Example sentences for "leftward"

Lexicographically close words:
leftest; leftist; leftover; leftovers; lefts; leftwards; lefull; leg; legacies; legacy
  1. Even as bidden they do; and first Palinurus swung the gurgling prow leftward through the water; to the left all our squadron bent with oar and wind.

  2. This way direct her path; kiss the shore, and let the oarblade graze the leftward reefs.

  3. Thence leftward to the part in the middle of his head is a plot of hair like a little black lawn, extending well down to his forehead and neatly rounded at the corner away from the part.

  4. Leftward from this, to a point directly over the beginning of his eyebrow, a broad, bare strip extends up to a black, undulating band of hair which marks the top of his head.

  5. To the right: This is only an apparent departure from their leftward course.

  6. But such a veering to the right is a consequence of their leftward course, and not an exception to it.

  7. While he was speaking Love on leftward side (As wont) approving sneeze from dextral sped.

  8. While she was speaking, Love from leftward side (As wont) with sneeze approving rightwards hied.

  9. Meanwhile Æneas' hardy sons upon their leftward wall Stand in array; for on the right the river girdeth all.

  10. And again, “Which I alike despise, speed they their course With right-hand flight towards the ruddy east, Or leftward down into the shades of eve.

  11. Friedrich pushes out his Left Wing still farther leftward, leftward and downward withal, to clear those vineyard-fences completely of their occupants, Pandour or Regular, old or new.

  12. Thy poor lie slain of thine hands, Their starved limbs rot in thy sight; As a shadow the ghost of thee stands Among men living and lands, And stirs not leftward or right.

  13. In the quicksands leftward and right My feet sink down under me; But I know the scents of the shore And the broad blown breaths of the sea.

  14. Leftward the narrow village street led to the footway along which he could make for the mountain-wall.

  15. We passed round the leftward edge of the brown hill and joined our infantry in a broad green valley.

  16. Down leftward a black-powder gun was popping on the film-cut ridge of Bluebank.

  17. Below the small kopje were tents and waggons; from the leftward shoulder of the big one flashed once more the Boer guns.

  18. Rightward or leftward there is room to bear The shock of arms, or on the ridge to stand, And roll down rocks upon the foe.

  19. Dark thoughts were theirs, and sorrowful their mood; When lo, to leftward Cytherea sent A sign amid the open firmament.

  20. Scarce spake the sire when lo, to leftward crashed A peal of thunder, and amid the night A sky-dropt star athwart the darkness flashed, Trailing its torchfire with a stream of light.

  21. Hug close the cliff, and graze the leftward side.

  22. Here part the roads; beyond the walls of Dis There lies for us Elysium; leftward borne Thou comest to Tartarus, in whose drear abyss Poor sinners purge with pains the lives they lived amiss.

  23. To leftward o'er the pier they turn'd; but each Had first between his teeth prest close the tongue, Toward their leader for a signal looking, Which he with sound obscene triumphant gave.

  24. Then to the leftward turning sped we forth, And at a sling's throw found another shade Far fiercer and more huge.

  25. On the other hand, the leftward wing from Great End, after dipping to the Sty Head, rises steeply again to another chain of summits, the first of which is no less glorious a goal than the crown of the Great Gable.

  26. The leftward projection of the curtain, as one looks northward, comes down into the plain almost as far as and somewhat to the left of Charasiah, dividing the valley of Charasiah from the outer plain of Chardeh.

  27. It was turned by the fierce rush of the fanatics, who were actually in rear of the leftward infantry regiment and in the heart of the British position.

  28. And eastward, leftward of him, in the defiles about Eypel, lie Nadasti and Ruffian Trenck, with ten or twelve thousand, who are to take him in rear.

  29. The loss of their Left wing was, however, more than compensated to the Independents by the movement leftward in the ranks of the Social-Democrats, the supporters of the Government.

  30. And this leftward trend was accentuated by disapproval of the action of the Government in bombarding whole quarters of Berlin and in shooting wholesale its political opponents.

  31. So steady had this leftward flow been that probably the Congress, if left to itself, would have reflected it by coming together with a majority for the Opposition.

  32. But leftward of the woful field he found, 925 Ere long, bright Helen's paramour his band Exhorting to the fight.

  33. This Leftward Card in each Row is called the Row's Master-Card, and it cannot be covered by any other card, nor be moved.

  34. Note now your Card in the Right-Hand column, and also the Card next it, of course to the Leftward; which Leftward Card is spoken of as Influencing the other.

  35. And then mark if, leftward and toward the Master-Card of the Row, lies another of the same Suit.

  36. Again Shuffle, and from the Top of the Pack lay-- downward--a Leftward Border of Four Cards.

  37. Again mix your cards; and deal from their Top, Two Cards, leftward laid in descent, as in Fig.


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