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Sentences starting with towards

Towards spring he went to Philadelphia with his plans all matured for a new campaign. [5]
Towards morning Margot waked out of a brief sleep, and found the Cure and his sister and others about her bed. [11]
Towards sunset about twenty hay-wagons arrived and camped around the house and all the teamsters came in to supper--a very, very rough set. [5]
Towards midnight Ulrich took the lamp and went upstairs. [10]
Towards daybreak we tied up, and Jim was mighty particular about hiding the raft good. [5]
Towards both of these her mind had slowly and almost unconsciously changed, and she wished to think about neither. [11]
Towards sunset of the third day, when the young gentlemen thought they ought to be near the town of Magnolia, near which they had been directed to find the engineers' camp, they descried a log house and drew up before it to enquire the way. [5]
Towards midnight, when the occupants of all the state-rooms were supposed to be in profound slumber, there was an invasion of the small cabin by a large and loquacious family, who had been making an excursion on the island railway. [4]
Towards the last, she said in gesture: "You can forget the winter, but not the spring. [11]
Towards evening he sat alone in the room where Macnamara lay asleep--almost his very last sleep. [11]

Short sentences using towards

My way lies towards Virginia. [11]
It grew colder towards morning. [10]
She came back towards me. [11]
Parpon quickly turned towards it. [11]
Alison's heart warmed towards him. [9]
Instantly he started towards Detricand. [11]
It 'uz gitt'n' towards dark. [5]
He fled towards the town. [11]
She turned towards the sound. [11]
He floundered towards the shore. [11]

Sentences containing towards two or more times

He sprang towards you over Faddo's body, even as you threw the lantern, and, catching his arm, you ran with him towards the dyke. [11]
Amasis laughed heartily with his friends at Gyges' artifice, allowed the young heroes to mix freely with his family, and behaved towards them himself as a jovial father towards his merry sons. [10]
At first he turned towards the bridge, as though to cross over to Lebanon, but the last word Ingolby had uttered rang in his ears, and he carried him away into the trees towards his own house, the faithful terrier following. [11]
Presently Pierre nodded towards the door, and King Kinkley and another lifted him and carried him towards it. [11]
Is she sagging towards Realism or rising towards Idealism? [4]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
I never felt towards a woman as I've felt towards you; and that's why I want to make things not so bad for you as they might be. [11]
When we turned to go towards the house again, a man lounged out of the trees towards us. [11]
He turned towards the bodies, then looked at the camels flying down the desert towards Dongola. [11]
She turned towards the bed, but stopped abruptly, because she heard footsteps in the hall outside--footsteps she knew, footsteps which for years had travelled towards her, day and night, with eagerness; the quick, urgent footsteps of a man of decision, of impulse, of determination. [11]

More example sentences with the word towards in them

She saw a youth with a sword hurrying towards the Cohue Royale from a tangled mass of combatants. [11]
Youth answering to youth had claimed its own; love springing from the dawn, brave and bright-eyed, had waved its wand towards that good country called Home. [11]
I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
She saw the young doctor driving towards them out of the covered bridge! [11]
What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
But I thought you dead by now, and--" "If you are disappointed," said I, "there is a way"; and I waved towards his men, then to Mr. Stevens and my own ambushed fellows. [11]
She could not yet feel any impulse of affection towards her, and she did not as yet understand that what was required of her was the one gift which the best will, the most loving heart in the world, could not offer at a command. [10]
For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
He pinioned her wrists with one hand and drew her towards the door, determination and anger in his face. [11]
But now she would not go with him, and turned towards the village. [11]
The old woman would not be likely to have another such favorable opportunity of supplicating the all-powerful man who stood before her, without the hindrance of witnesses, to exercise his magnaminity and clemency towards her son. [10]
Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
How different it would be if we were always going towards it! [4]
As Brydon's gang worked, they saw a man out upon a small raft of driftwood, which had been suddenly caught in the drive of logs, and was carried out towards the middle channel. [11]
As the morning wore on, they saw upon a crag of ice below the sloping glacier two men looking upwards towards the flag. [11]
These were the words he was singing as Sergeant Tom rode towards the tavern: "The hot blood leaps in his quivering breast Voila! [11]
It was now within three-quarters of an hour of noon, and in that house all was as still as before; the Patriarch, however, might be expected to be punctual, and she had done nothing towards dressing but putting on those gilt sandals. [10]
The latter turned with upraised beaker towards the Thuringian and, as the Junker who had relapsed into his reverie, did not notice the movement, irritably exclaimed: "Well, Herr Dornburg, you require a long time to pledge a man. [10]
And she, too, with the subtle senses of a disembodied spirit, must have had a yearning towards him, for she had perceived all the depth and fervor of his passion. [10]
She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
I was trying with the help of Pretty Pierre to get out of the country"--and he waved his hand towards the half-breed. [11]
Then he stood with his face towards the pistol. [11]
Behind them again, with head shaking from one side to the other, travelled Macavoy; and they all marched away towards the Fort. [11]
She watched him with an unwonted tugging at her heart as he stood for a long time by the edge of the railing, gazing over the tree-tops of the valley towards the distant hazy hills. [9]
Suddenly the prisoner, with an abrupt motion of the hand towards two chairs, said with an assumption of ordinary politeness: "Will you not be seated? [11]
Then," she added, with a little wave of the hand towards the cable running down from Phil Boldrick's eyrie in the mountains, "then I want to see all that cable can do--all, remember. [11]
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]
He thanked Charley with a beaming face, and then the two friends bowed and moved towards the door. [11]
He did not wish to appear before the friend of his youth, and even avoided Hans Eitelfritz, who came towards him. [10]
Fling open the window-blinds of the chamber that looks out on the waters and towards the western sun! [6]
He heard them willingly, but did not let them discuss the matter; then, though with some difficulty, he quickly mounted the steps, down which Bent-Anat came towards him. [10]
She gave a wild whinny of fright, and jumped cornerwise, clear out across the chasm, towards the moving bridge. [11]
Those around me who were sufficiently nimble began to run towards the noise, and I ran after them. [9]
Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
He approached Valmond, who was moving on towards the Louis Quinze, with appreciation of a time for disappearing. [11]
And that she, who was apparently her friend, and who had Stanhope's welfare so much at heart, did so feel was an added reason why Irene was drifting towards a purpose of self-sacrifice. [4]
Even the priest who visited him several times was by no means kindly disposed towards her. [10]
Was this Sabina who no doubt was kindly disposed towards him but who loved no one else, not even herself? [10]
Journeying towards the White Mountains, we concluded that a line passing through Bellows Falls, and bending a little south on either side, would mark northward the region of perpetual pie. [4]
Even as he whistled Meyerbeer, riding towards Tralee, his eyes had a look of one who was trying to see into things; and his lips, when the whistling ceased, had a cheerful pucker which seemed to show that he had seen what he wanted. [11]
After a moment's whisperings, they all three turned their faces again towards Tralee. [11]
Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
Do you remimber whin--" Lawless interrupted him and motioned towards Pourcette. [11]
The carts from which the noise proceeded belonged to traders from neighboring cities, who preferred to leave their goods in the threatened town, rather than carry them towards the advancing Spaniards. [10]
The north-east wind which rose towards morning had floated them away, and Zeus, devourer of the clouds, had swallowed them up to the very last. [10]
Do you know whether Fraulein Van Hoogstraten--" "Up there," replied Georg, pointing towards the ceiling. [10]
On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
At the moment when Virginie turned away with the handsome dish from M. Manotel, and the crowd cheered her gaily, she caught Jean-Jacques' eye, and she came straight towards him. [11]
At this instant, when Margaret arose with the crumpled letter in her hand, and marched towards her husband's library, did she choose, or had she been choosing for the two years past, and was this only a publication of her election? [4]
What Boldrick thought when he saw the two ascending towards him, he expressed to Mr. Devlin later in the day in vigorous language: what occurred at his but Ruth Devlin told me afterwards. [11]
She well knew what was passing in the father's mind, for the day before he had brought all sorts of artist's materials, and told her to arrange the little gable-room, with the large window facing towards the north, and put the easel and colors there. [10]
Charley instinctively felt what was in her mind, and came towards the bed. [11]
Before I realized what he was doing, Nick, instead of retracing his steps towards the house, started forward. [9]
Both curly heads were turned towards the side, and rested on a dimpled hand pressed upon the silken pillow. [10]
Forty sparkling eyes were turned towards the bearded man, who addressed them in his deep voice. [10]
Their malicious faces were tinged by the red glow of the flames, which rose with their spiteful laughter towards heaven, as if demanding vengeance. [10]
Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [10]
Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
While the two were now turned away towards the Kismet, Andree came to Delia. [11]
All four horsemen were in the sand, plunging on towards us. [11]
Only her hands were busy; her eyes were elsewhere, and suddenly they brightened again, for the couple on which she kept them fixed were coming back, straight towards the hedge, and she would soon be able again to hear what they were saying. [10]
When the rest were all gone, he turned his chair round towards mine, and began. [6]
Swaying as she went, Fleda half-blindly moved towards a chair near by and sank into it. [11]
And as Klea went towards the temple her sister called after her. [10]
I bowed and went towards the door, and was already on the threshold when he called me back once more, and said: 'Remember your parents and their fate! [10]
But as he went towards Mizraim's quarters he saw no sure escape from the stage of those untoward events, save by the exit which is for all in some appointed hour. [11]
Yet as he went towards his own home now, he recalled the day they were married, and for the first time had drawn as near to each other as life could draw. [11]
He collected himself, went towards his couch and drew the curtain which concealed the niche at the head of the bed. [10]
You are not well disposed towards Barine. [10]
I shall give weight to one as you fulfill the other'; and, smiling at him, I moved away towards my mother. [11]
No one showed weariness, and when the dawn broke slow and soft over the eastern hills, I motioned my good boatmen towards the shore, and landed safely. [11]
For fifty miles we travelled under it, towards the Gap, our eyes drawn to it by a resistless fascination. [9]
We know how we stand towards each other and can count on each other with glad and perfect confidence, thanking the Almighty for having opened out a new life to us. [10]
But towards daylight we got it all settled satisfactory, and concluded to drop crabapples and p'simmons. [5]
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
We bent our way towards one of the sandy streets where the great houses were. [9]
We made our way through the fog towards Liverpool, and arrived at 1.30, on Sunday, May 9th. [6]
Austen took his way slowly across the state-house park, threading among the groups between the snow-banks towards the wide facade of the Pelican Hotel. [9]
I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
Another member made way and Gaston leaned towards the Premier, who nodded and smiled. [11]
Did not its waters lead, after long wanderings, to the great highway of the world, and open to her the gates of those cities from which she could take her departure unchallenged towards the lands of the morning or of the sunset? [6]
There, where the water is lashed into foam, is the monster swimming towards us! [10]
Now, when I was wide-awake, Ann had indeed departed, and the house-wife had seen her quit the house and walk towards the stables, following old Uhlwurm. [10]
When I woke--it was towards morning--I saw two yellow stars glaring where the mouth of the cave had been. [11]
Near as he was to her now, he very often saw her in his mind's eye as she passed over Ridley Common, looking towards him, her eyes shaded by her hand. [11]
At last there was the sound of footsteps, and a moment later Gabriel Druse came through the trees towards her. [11]
Dicky's invariable reply was that we couldn't, and that things weren't moving very much towards a higher civilisation in Egypt. [11]
Her natural heart was struggling against her old bitterness towards Galt Roscoe and her partial hate of Ruth Devlin. [11]
Not a word was spoken as Pango Dooni and his company galloped towards the front of the Palace. [11]
The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
But now Joan was rowing rapidly towards him, and presently was alongside. [11]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
The outer air was perhaps less charged with the unnatural, and with a glance towards the room where death was quartered, they left the hut. [11]
Her silvered hair was parted in the middle and had, in spite of palpable efforts towards tightness and repression, a perceptible ripple in it. [9]
This young man--it was our kind friend Marcus, of course--crossed the court, taking a zigzag at first, as a snipe flies, and then came towards our door. [10]
This time she was on a great warship, in a storm which was driving towards a rocky shore. [11]
The same trumpeter was now running towards them. [11]

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