That he should wend unto the walls, and townward turn his host, And blend amid destruction swift the Latin people lost.
Then wildered is the war array; the Latins wheel about And sling their targets all aback, andtownward turn their steeds.
Let my hand be the first to try the perils of the fight, The while the foot-men townward bide, and hold the walls aright.
Townward the artillery was unlimbering in a wide, alert half-circle, guns pointing south.
Another soldier leaned against the townward bank of the ditch, his feet resting on a corpse, banging methodically away at something he saw.
The attempt to bring the advantages of the city within the reach of the dwellers in the country cannot, of itself, counteract the townward tendency in so far as it is due to the causes summarised above.
With every advantage of time and place, the promotion of the movement which is to counteract the townward tendency will have to reckon with the psychological difficulty inherent in the conditions.
If the townward tendency cannot be checked, it will ultimately bring about the decay of the towns themselves, and of our whole civilisation, for the towns draw their supply of population from the country.
Nearly everywhere there is a townward movement for the purpose of securing school advantages for the children.
Certainly those who admit the townward drift of country life may fairly say that it does not present so urgent a problem in the New World as in parts of the Old.
It follows that the first step towards a general reconstruction of country life, which has the promise of giving to the country a social attraction strong enough to stem the tide of the townward migration, is agricultural coöperation.
In another instant he was running townward at full speed, and I was flying at an equal pace through the dark and silent street toward Dr.
I ran down the steps and strolledtownward in his company.
They had given the cavalry herds and herd guards a wide berth, and the townward route, for Mrs. Dwight shunned, she said, the sight of almost any face but the sweet and sympathetic one beside her.
It will be remembered that Priscilla saw the meeting between the post commander and his Exchange officer, and their move in company toward the townward gate.
In the rear are orchard and gardens, and beyond these a grassy slope that curves down to meet the river, that is ever hurrying townward to seize the great mill wheels and set them sweeping round and round.
The one coming from townward was our detective tramp, looking all that a tramp should be.
He even brought down his proud stomach so far as to join himself to me for the rest of my townward walk, that he might give me his views of the American people, and thus inclusively of myself.
I might walk townward without that aching dread of bulletins that had darkened the July sunshine and twice made the scarlet leaves of October seem stained with blood.
Kent faced about and joined thetownward dispersal with his informant.
A whiff of dust showed where the battery ambled townward among roadside gardens, the Callender carriage spinning by it to hurry its three ladies and Mandeville far away to the city's lower end.
By a narrow gate in this fence, near its townward end, a shelled walk lured on into a musky air of verdurous alleys that led and misled, crossed, doubled, and mazed among flowering shrubs from bower to bower.
Townward across the wide plain the distant smoke of suicidal conflagration studded the whole great double crescent of the harbor.
The company leaped into the vehicles any way they could and started townward over a miserable road with the contest resounding on their right.
Once Anna woke, and from the small windows that opened to every quarter except up the bay townward looked forth across the still waters and low shores.
Was never a soul who knew, That I am the man, who chucked the man, That the townward tram car slew!
There wasn't a soul that saw the deed, Not even the driver knew, And there he lay on the tramway track, Till the townward car was due.
Now lovely Venus doth her son persuade To seek the walls, and townward turn his train, And deal swift havoc on the foe dismayed.
Winder's brigade came also and took position on the heights commanding Lewiston, and Taliaferro's swung across the bridge and formed upon the townwardside of South Fork.
It is he who can best teach a wholesome love for country life and help to stem the townward tide.
Insofar as the schools do stimulate the two great disintegrating tendencies of rural life, the townward trend of the boys and girls and the increase of absentee landlords, the country folks have a right to complain.
Townward there is room for a spacious esplanade; and then for the stables, outbuildings, well masked; which still farther shut off the Town.
If you find the smallest thing--even a carpet tack--attached to the post, get back into your seat at once and cut off townward as fast as you can make the car travel.
Limits imposed upon theTownward Movement by the Economic Conditions of World-industry.
There are changes other than those of industrial method which help thetownward movement.
As he dropped into the seat the team got away with a plunge and they went townward with slack tugs, the reins and Angus' arms pulling the load.
Leaving Dorgan and Rennie to look after the horse, they took their townward way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "townward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
