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Sentences starting with toward

Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
Toward midnight she went to Natasha's room fingering the key in her pocket. [2]
Toward evening he went off at a tangent far up-town, so as to be able to tell his wife how utterly preposterous the best there would be as compared even with this ridiculous Grosvenor Green gimcrackery. [8]
Toward nightfall, when we were about tired out, we came up against a rock as big as a cottage. [5]
Toward eleven there was a movement in her room. [10]
Toward midnight the voices began to subside, a cock crowed, the full moon began to show from behind the lime trees, a fresh white dewy mist began to rise, and stillness reigned over the village and the house. [2]
Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. [2]
Toward evening on the second day, what does he do but blandly fetch out a dirk from inside his robe! [5]
Toward 4 P.M. the other day I was gazing and worshiping as usual when I chanced to notice that shadow No. [5]
Toward three o'clock the French attacks ceased. [2]

Sentences ending with toward

We were crossing a vast meadow by way of short-cut, and I was musing absently, hearing nothing, seeing nothing, when Sandy suddenly interrupted a remark which she had begun that morning, with the cry: "Defend thee, lord!--peril of life is toward! [5]

Short sentences using toward

This was down toward Tuttletown. [5]
Its side was toward me. [5]
I moved quickly toward it. [11]
She ran rapidly toward him. [2]
Arakcheev's eyes turned toward him. [2]
Pierre drove on toward Gorki. [2]
He was along toward fifty. [5]
Up to Antwerp toward evening. [4]
Toward ten I started below. [5]
Went they toward Southwark? [5]

Sentences containing toward two or more times

Get your force well in hand and stand on the defensive, guarding against a movement of the enemy either back toward Strasburg or toward Franklin, and await further orders, which will soon be sent you. [7]
One division turned toward the market-place, another toward the royal palaces. [10]
Our attitude toward them is precisely our attitude toward the Mexican People. [9]
Although averse to the shedding of blood, we shall still hold this course rigidly and fearlessly, not only toward single stars, but toward constellations. [5]
By the time the populace were fairly in bed, toward dawn, we were in the saddle and away toward Tours to report to the King. [5]
While we were still on very high ground, and before the descent toward Argentie`re began, we looked up toward a neighboring mountain-top, and saw exquisite prismatic colors playing about some white clouds which were so delicate as to almost resemble gossamer webs. [5]
Toward midnight I set out, equipped with the countersign, and picked my way toward the lonely region where Adler was to keep his watch. [5]
The patronizing compassion of Mrs. Horn for the Leightons filled him with indignation toward her, toward himself. [8]
He could soon obtain a good office elsewhere, since their Majesties were not only favourably disposed toward him, but now toward her also. [10]
We shall in no case wantonly offend the people of any star, but shall treat all alike with urbanity and kindliness, never conducting ourselves toward an asteroid after a fashion which we could not venture to assume toward Jupiter or Saturn. [5]

More example sentences with the word toward in them

I think of your great hate toward him who--I think of your life's implacable purpose. [13]
As the bold young woman tapped Gombert lightly on the arm and, with fresh words of invitation, pointed toward the counter, a shiver ran through Barbara's limbs. [10]
But what do you think is Roweny beginning to lean any toward him, or ain't she? [5]
I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
It means that you can't skip out on any such--" Tracy made a step toward the old man, but Mrs. Marsh sprang between, and said: "Don't, Mr. Tracy, please. [5]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
Generation after generation would labour with unflagging zeal until the art sculptured fragment of the new Cathedral--the new Cathedral of Democracy --pointed upward toward the blue vault of heaven. [9]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
Here also, as Wolf himself had probably experienced, there had been no lack of inclination toward the Lutheran doctrine. [10]
Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
Don Luis Quijada, with the haughty precision of the Castilian grandee, was passing through the humble folk around him and advancing directly toward her. [10]
They turned, as with one consent, down the path toward the distant water. [9]
I loved him with my whole heart, and I knew that he felt the same toward me, though no words had been spoken. [5]
And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. [5]
She was smiling with joy, too, and she held out her wasted hands and drew me toward her, kissing me on both cheeks. [9]
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume. [9]
Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs. [6]
Swift as the wind the long-limbed bays of royal breed bore the light vehicles over the uneven sandy road and the smooth highway toward the palace. [10]
The man for whom Barbara's soul longed, as well as her eyes, rode on the side toward her. [10]
It was not wholly with intent that she leaned toward him, for the look of his eyes and the feel of his hands made her weak. [13]
Suddenly the wolf's whole physiognomy changed: she shuddered, seeing what she had probably never seen before--human eyes fixed upon her--and turning her head a little toward Rostov, she paused. [2]
I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
Late one night when the sweethearts had been having a flawless visit together, Sally's interior devil began to work his specialty, and soon the conversation was drifting toward the customary rock. [5]
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
Pretermit thy whittling, wheel thine ear-flap toward me, Thou shalt hear them answered. [6]
In any case, whatever she, Euryale, could do to save her from the worst fate that could befall a woman, that should be done, and this time it was she who drew the other toward her and kissed her. [10]
The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. [5]
He should confess what his intentions toward her were. [10]
Orthodox though he were, there had been times when his humour had borne him upward toward higher truths, and he had once remarked that promising to love forever was like promising to become President of the United States. [9]
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. [10]
Venters and Lassiter were turning toward the house when Jane appeared in the lane leading a horse. [13]
But the tents were pitched, and at that moment the young Captain was seen to hand over his horse to an orderly, and to come toward them. [9]
The gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts, and one of them came toward us in light, soft, intermittent leaps, until he was close to the rail of the burial-ground. [6]
They knew we were foreigners and Protestants, and not likely to feel admiration or much friendliness toward them. [5]
All his energies were bent toward the successful execution of the Bradlaugh order, which had to be completed on the first of February. [9]
Pierre felt particularly well disposed toward them all, but was now instinctively on his guard for fear of binding himself in any way. [2]
For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden. [5]
The next moment we were walking along in our village; and down toward the river I saw the twinkling lights of the Golden Stag. [5]
In a moment we were on our feet, and dashing away toward the sound. [11]
Stiff breeze, and we are fairly flying--dead ahead of it --and toward the islands. [5]
He made his way to the door and saw the people in the choir room, standing silently, in groups, looking toward him. [9]
At the Canopic Way they turned eastward and rushed through this main artery of traffic till, in the Brucheium, they hastened in a northerly direction toward the sea. [10]
Having forced his way out of the crowd of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing and Frenchmen running toward it. [2]
He turned this way and that, appealing to every face for help and sympathy; and held out his supplicating hands toward Holmes and began to plead: "Don't, oh, don't! [5]
In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
The old man waved her aside, and pointed toward the house. [11]
She was to watch me intently, and whenever I glanced toward her she was going to deliver a gubernatorial laugh that would lead the whole audience into applause. [5]
After a time--it was toward midnight now--Mr. Hawkins roused out of a doze, looked about him and was evidently trying to speak. [5]
Close by us was the Grand Stand--tier on tier of dim thrones rising up toward the zenith. [5]
I believe that was the beginning of my charity toward the North. [9]
One of these was running to cross the path of Count Rostopchin's carriage, and the count himself, his coachman, and his dragoons looked with vague horror and curiosity at these released lunatics and especially at the one running toward them. [2]
Yes, the case was plain to Hendon--he must lose no more time in Southwark, but move at once through Kent, toward Monk's Holm, searching the wood and inquiring as he went. [5]
The poppy leaf was not to flutter toward the sky, but to wither in the dust. [10]
I supposed it was merely to do something toward raising the flag. [7]
This good woman was made happy all the day long by the applauses which she got out of herself for her magnanimous condescension to a tramp; and the King was just as self-complacent over his gracious humility toward a humble peasant woman. [5]
But the sea was his ally, and she turned her face appealingly toward the receding land. [9]
And so I was glad when Charley, another veteran, arrived toward the edge of the evening, and nestled up to Henry to hear the letter read, and talked over the preparations for the welcome. [5]
The early dusk was gathering when she left the hall and made her way toward the city. [9]
All the town was drifting toward the graveyard. [5]
The March night was drawing toward its end, pallid mists floated over the canal, the work of Hebrew bondmen which, as far as the eye could reach, intersected the plain, watering the fields and pastures along its course. [10]
This day I was certain I had the greater number of birds in my wallet, and I walked in good heart toward the end of the path. [10]
The next night was appointed for a visit to the bottom of the crater, for we desired to traverse its floor and see the "North Lake" (of fire) which lay two miles away, toward the further wall. [5]
And it so warmed me toward Mr. Brown of St. Louis that I said that if ever I visited that city again, I would seek out that excellent man and kiss the hem of his garment if it was a new one. [5]
Now, as the warm weather approaches, and the ganders begin to spawn-- The excited listener sprang toward me to shake hands, and said: "There, there--that will do. [5]
When the Deity wants a thing, and after working at it for "ages and ages" can't show even a shade of progress toward its accomplishment, we--well, we don't laugh, but it is only because we dasn't. [5]
She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
There was another wait of half an hour toward nine o'clock, but I had gone through so much by that time that I had no spirit left, and so had no desire but to be let alone. [5]
Yet an insistent voice urged her on, whispering that to remain at home, inactive, was to go mad; salvation and relief lay in plunging into the struggle, in contributing her share toward retribution and victory. [9]
One afternoon when Virginia was sitting in the summer house alone, her thoughts wandering back, as they sometimes did, to another afternoon she had spent there,--it seemed so long ago,--when she saw Mammy Easter coming toward her. [9]
Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
The current was very strong, and he battled fiercely as Billy Rufus, not far above, moved down toward them at an angle. [11]
Even Ledscha glanced very rarely toward the tents. [10]
It was a very large island, and used to be out toward mid-stream; but it is joined fast to the main shore now, and has retired from business as an island. [5]
She stepped toward Venters and held up both hands as if to ward off a blow. [13]
And therewith Sir Uwaine and Sir Gawaine departed a little from them, and then were they ware where Sir Marhaus came riding on a great horse straight toward them. [5]
His joy collapsed utterly, and he turned away and moped toward the door moaning and lamenting over the bitterness of his luck. [5]
Her walks were usually directed toward the palace, to inquire how the recluse in San Yuste was faring, and whether any rumour mentioned her imperial son. [10]
This should move us to be charitable toward one another's lunacies. [5]
Again she looked up to survey the scene, and she was now aware of a white figure coming toward her from the tamarisk hedge. [10]
Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated. [2]
Presently he rose up and, cast a look far away toward the valley, and his thoughts took a new direction: "There it is! [5]
Venters, sighing, gathered up an armful of pottery, such pieces as he thought strong enough and suitable for his own use, and bent his steps toward camp. [13]
The storm continued until toward midnight, then ceased. [5]
The feast lasted until early morning, but toward noon Hermon again appeared in his uncle's house, and met Daphne full of joyous confidence, as if he were completely transformed. [10]
Natasha kept looking uneasily at everybody with wide-open eyes, as if wishing to intercept every glance directed toward her, and tried to appear the same as usual. [2]
We were seated under the elm near the spring, and at that instant I saw Tom coming toward us. [9]
Jethro Bass, rugged, uncouth, in rawhide boots and swallowtail and coonskin cap, came down from the porch to welcome her, and she ran toward him with an eagerness that started the painter to wondering afresh over the contrasts of life. [9]
She was quite unconscious of any guilt toward Caracalla. [10]
Behold how the unclean creatures are wending toward the dead lion and gathering to the feast: "Reminiscences of Dickens. [5]
He took an uncertain step toward her, as though half expecting her to flee, and stopped. [9]
The sight of two policemen hurrying toward them from the direction of the canal aroused her. [9]
Presently he descried two mounted men riding toward him. [13]
Our bedroom has two great glass bird-cages (enclosed balconies) one looking toward the Rhine valley and sunset, the other looking up the Neckar cul-de-sac, and naturally we spend nearly all our time in these --when one is sunny the other is shady. [5]
Its head is turned toward the southeast. [10]
Her face was turned toward the large doorway of the main entrance, while she sometimes greeted newly introduced guests, sometimes bade farewell to departing ones, and meanwhile answered and asked questions. [10]
Every face was turned toward the center of attraction. [5]
Mr. Clayton now turned toward Szczepanik, and began with a taunt--a taunt which did not reach a finish; Szczepanik interrupted it with a hardy retort, and followed this with a blow. [5]

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