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Townward

Townward \Town"ward\, Townwards \Town"wards\,, adv. Toward a town.
--Longfellow.

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townward

a. Towards a town adv. Towards a town; townwards

Usage examples of "townward".

You there, brown-clad farmer on the tall seat of your wagon, driving townward with a red heifer for sale, I can show you that life --your life--is not all a gray smudge, as you think it is, but crammed, packed, loaded with miraculous things.

On the road, a quarter of a mile townward, an aged colored man showed us, with pride, an unexploded bomb-shell which has lain in his yard since the day it fell there during the siege.

The car rolled townward, speeding along streets where traffic was thin.

He headed townward and came immediately to a quarter-mile stretch where buildings were few.

Children, too young to comprehend wherefore this woman should be shut out from the sphere of human charities, would creep nigh enough to behold her plying her needle at the cottage-window, or standing in the doorway, or laboring in her little garden, or coming forth along the pathway that led townward.