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Sentences ending with downwards

Hawkins started; then settled into deep reflection; finally shook his head sorrowfully and pointed downwards. [5]
These two worthies kept up the old controversy between the professions, which grows out of the fact that one studies nature from below upwards, and the other from above downwards. [6]
It is to be remembered that Emerson is one of those authors whose popularity must diffuse itself from above downwards. [6]

More example sentences with the word downwards in them

It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke. [2]
The wide opening, which extended downwards to within a few spans of the floor, was finished at either side by a tall pillar of fine reddish-brown porphyry, flecked with white, and crowned with gilt Corinthian capitals. [10]
But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
Covetousness may lead to industry, sensual appetites may beget noble fruit, but hatred is a devastator, and in the soul that it occupies all that is noble grows not upwards and towards the light, but downwards to the earth and to darkness. [10]
He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly fixed on. [2]
From time to time he raised his eyelids--long, finely wrinkled, and blue-veined--turning his eyes up to heaven or rolling them to one side and then downwards towards the middle of the tent. [10]
He staggered to the wall, and then came to the floor in a heap as the bear lurched downwards and fell over on its side, dead. [11]
In England, on the other hand, with its aristocratic institutions, racing is a natural growth enough; the passion for it spreads downwards through all classes, from the Queen to the costermonger. [6]
At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization. [6]
As some of the balls struck the cask, the wounds in Reeder's leg were probably from these, glancing downwards, though they might have been caused by the second shot fired. [5]
They are only temporarily developed during the breeding-season; and Dr. Gunther suspects that they are brought into action as prehensile organs by the doubling inwards and downwards of the two sides of the body. [1]
There was a sudden shock; the vessel stood still and shivered; lurched, swung shoulder downwards, reeled and struggled. [11]
They are interesting men, full of good feelings, hard workers, always foremost in good deeds, and on the whole the most efficient civilizing class, working downwards from knowledge to ignorance, that is,--not so much upwards, perhaps,--that we have. [6]
But our young man seems farther away from life than any student whose head is bent downwards over his books. [6]
The boar strikes laterally and upwards; the musk- deer downwards with serious effect. [1]
With it, as he spoke, he struck at my left ear downwards, as if to tear it off, and afterwards on the side of the head. [5]
Into the right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from behind the chair, held it in position. [2]
As I have gone downwards he has come upwards. [11]
How gently it falls through the soft air, always tending downwards, but sliding softly, from side to side, wavering, hesitating, balancing, until it settles as noiselessly as a snow-flake upon the all-receiving bosom of the earth! [6]
But then the expression of severity changed, and he drew Pierre's hand downwards, made him sit down, and smiled affectionately. [2]
Having learned from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this and always expects the law that he has learned to be fulfilled. [2]
When I looked at the specimen in the British Museum, which is mounted with the wings expanded and trailing downwards, I was however greatly disappointed, for the ocelli appeared flat, or even concave. [1]
Taking his hand and drawing him downwards, Kutuzov offered his cheek to be kissed, and again Prince Andrew noticed tears in the old man's eyes. [2]
He reached for a fresh cartridge, and thrust it into the throat of the gun, and as the seam was laid downwards he said to himself that he could swim under water, if discovered as he left the Victoire. [11]

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