What is "riverward"

Usage examples of "riverward".

We have guards to set, and messengers to send to the bridges and the riverward villages in case your enemies have any remote gain in this circumstance.

Meanwhile -- for when a missile has reached that infinitesimal point after which descent begins, it hesitates for a moment, and pretends to stand still -- while then the pocket-knife stands still at its zenith, Amsel tears his gaze away from the object that has reached this infinitesimal point and once more -- the object is already falling quickly fitfully, because now more exposed to the head wind, riverward -- has his eye on his friend Matern who is still teetering on the ball of his foot and his toes sockless in high shoe, holding his right hand high and far from his body, while his left arm steers and tries to keep him in balance.

The trolls scented victory now that the threat was over, and they surged riverward once more.

He was standing near the riverward end of the rock, made to seem small by the vastness of the sky that had opened up above him, with its scattering of wild stars and silver cicatrice of moon.

The vehicle, clumsily swaying and lumbering like some great amorfibot rousted unwilling from the dune where it had been dozing, drifted riverward and moved out over the water.

The column rose from an imitation castle, and Ted could make out one of the cannons from a man-of-war which poked riverward over mock battlements.

Bomba glanced riverward and saw the flickering lights dancing weirdly on the surface.

It rested comfortably on the riverward shoulder of the ridge overlooking the town.

Out on the roadway the patrolling sorcerers started to move quickly, heading riverward and almost running.

The populous heronry in Fresh Pond meadows has wellnigh broken up, but still a pair or two haunt the old home, as the gypsies of Ellangowan their ruined huts, and every evening fly over us riverwards, clearing their throats with a hoarse hawk as they go, and, in cloudy weather.

The coach-and-six crossed the high road to London in darkness, then swiftly bore riverwards in the direction of Gravesend.

The populous heronry in Fresh Pond meadows has wellnigh broken up, but still a pair or two haunt the old home, as the gypsies of Ellangowan their ruined huts, and every evening fly over us riverwards, clearing their throats with a hoarse hawk as they go, and, in cloudy weather.

The coach-and-six crossed the high road to London in darkness, then swiftly bore riverwards in the direction of Gravesend.

I knew it, that the tracks had run along this wide deep green space where I walked ahead of him, slumward, riverward, deathward, Woodward.