They are commonly from fifteen to eighteen inches long, and three in diameter; green, shaded with dark purple on their sunward sides.
The Niccola went sunward toward the inner planets to see.
The oxygen-atmosphere planet to sunward was visible only as a crescent, but the mottlings on its lighted part changed as it revolved--seas and islands and continents receiving the sunlight as it turned.
The oxygen-planet to sunward showed again as a lighted crescent.
The rag had traveled a good many millions of miles since it had been cast overboard; it was moving sunward with almost the same velocity with which the Persephone was moving Plutowards.
Getting a fix on Pluto was easy enough; the lighthouse station at Styx broadcast a strong beep sunward every ten seconds.
She had run heedlessly overnight, and she could not tell whether the squatting-place was sunward or where it lay.
I'll cry aloud How the green bulk wheels sunward day by day!
Their high velocity was demonstrated only by the rapid shrinking of Mars behind them; unless, fromsunward there came a minute, resisting thrust.
Several days out from Mars the three contacted a small meteor swarm--maybe a fragment of a comet moving sunward and earthward.
Sunward the planets are smaller, but they get larger as you go the other way.
We passed the moon, a dreary, burned-out world, and the professor was able to check off two hundred and forty thousand miles of our sunward plunge.
So, from oft converse with life's wintry gales, Should man learn how to clasp with tougher roots The inspiring earth; how otherwise avails The leaf-creating sap that sunward shoots?
We're going to shoot past Venus' orbit way ahead of the planet, and we're still heading sunward at a faster rate than we figured on.
Sunward is the blinding glare of the desert; on the dark side, enormous banks of lowering clouds.
Its sunward side is a dreary, sterile, hot and hostile desert.
Still Sunward rose the cry, but Southward Strode the king no more.
Turn sunward from the north, and shadows come to life, and are themselves the life, the action, and the transparence of their day.
Moreover, while the habit of your sunward thoughts is still flowing southward, after the winter and the spring, it surprises you in the sudden gleam of a north-westering sun.
Then on the sunward side of the nucleus, jetlike streamers or envelopes appear to be thrown off, often as if in parallel curved strata, or concentrically.
A stream, and sometimes several streams, of light also project sunward from the nucleus, occasionally appearing like a stunted tail directed oppositely to the real tail.
This shorter tail is due to the particles that we have just spoken of as being driven sunward from the earth by the action of ultra-violet light.
First, the number of auroræ, according to his explanation, ought to be greatest in the daytime, when the face of the earth on the sunward side is directly exposed to the atomic bombardment.
Symmetrical envelopes which, seen in section, appear as half circles or parabolas, risesunward from the nucleus, forming a concentric series.
These are naturally most active on the side which is directly exposed to the sun, whence the appearance of the immense glowing envelopes that surround the nucleus on the sunward side.
Merril had sent hersunward to strike at the mines of Loki, an asteroid where Russian komisars rolled in mountains of blood-red rubies.
And we ventured sunward as far as the moons of Mars.
The result will be that a great melting of ice and snow will occur here, and in this deep valley a river will form, flowing off toward the sunward hemisphere, exactly where we want to go.
It is the place where the hot air from the sunward side begins to be chilled and to descend, meeting the colder air from the night side.
By the utmost good fortune after we passed the blazing peak which so nearly wrecked us, we were carried on by the wind so far, before the ascensional power of the car gave out, that we descended on the sunward side of the crest of the range.
These foothills were, in fact, enormous glaciers thrust out toward the sunward hemisphere.
The heated air charged with moisture rises over the sunward hemisphere, and flows off above, on all sides, toward the night side, while from the latter cold air flows in beneath to take its place.
That indicates that our reception is essentially a religious one, and proves that our flight sunward has had the expected effect.
Thou dazzling vision in the Eastern sky, Moving so grandly through the fields of space, Thou stranger in our starry populace, On what swift errand dost thou sunward fly?
Jesus, grace for grace outpouring, Show me ever greater things; Raise me higher, sunward soaring, Mounting as on eagle wings.
Pop's idea involved Brulow's Comet, which will be coming back sunwardfrom far space in three years.
Brulow's Comet was on the sunward swing, now, gaining speed under solar gravitation; but it still had a long ways to go.
Each planet was at the same time pushed somewhat sunward by perturbation.
For Wergeland wert thou the eagle's wing, That lifted him sunward to heights unbounded.
Sometime, sometime all the valley Like him shall with light be flooded; Sometime all his faith and truth Sunward grow in dewy youth, And the dreams he dreamt too early Live and make him leader be For a race as true as he.
Some heat would be carried around by atmospheric circulation from the sunward side, but not enough, it would seem, to keep water from being perpetually frozen, or the ground from being baked with unrelaxing frost.
Now, if we could stand on the sunward hemisphere of Mercury what, to our eyes, would be the effect of this shifting of the sun's position with regard to a fixed point on the planet's surface?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sunward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
