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landward
/ ˈlændwəd /
adjective
- lying, facing, or moving towards land
- in the direction of the land
adverb
- a variant of landwards
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A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.
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Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.
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But being on the landward side she could not see the faint gleam of a cigarette that marked Henri's anxious figure at the rail.
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They at once began to throw up batteries, while the Corsicans harassed the landward approaches to the place.
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The Dyaks, scurrying through the banyan groves and bamboo thickets, enclosed it on the rear and landward sides.
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