This company had the stonework contract for the city-ward redistricting. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)
On hearing this, we were thrown into such a terrible fright that Ascyltos and Giton dashed away city-ward, through the underbrush, and I retreated in such a hurry that the precious tunic slipped off my shoulders without my knowing it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This put us into such a fright that Ascyltos and Gito fled through briars and brambles to the city-ward; but I turn'd back again in such a hurry that without perceiving it the precious coat drop'd from my shoulders: ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)
Herded like so many cattle, guarded like wolves, they were driven city-ward, few if any of them exhibiting the slightest symptom of regret or discomfiture. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
Their children have forgotten the traditions of the soil, and the energies of our people must now be concentrated to reverse the aimless tide of human sufferers, which under stress continues to flow city-ward, and to send it to repeople the silent places whence it came. ❋ Bolton Hall (1896)
The descendants of these settlers still retained a good deal of the outdoor habit, but in the third generation the actual drift city-ward began. ❋ Walter Camp (1892)
I suggested that he had better take the next city-ward tram-car. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
I suggested that he had better take the next city-ward tramcar. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
Mr. Jerrold's quarters, and through the mysterious passage west of the colonel's silent house, and down the long stairs, just in time to catch the train that whirled them away city-ward almost as soon as it had disgorged the morning's mail. ❋ Charles King (1888)
They overtook two or three of the brilliant sails they had passed on their outward way, still drifting city-ward with the tide. ❋ Anna Fuller (1884)
And among them appeared his surviving ministers, the venerable karo; and these, as the procession turned city-ward, took their old places of honour, and marched before the shrine valiantly, though bent with years. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
If there be any place and time in the world where and when it seems easy to "go into something" it is in Broadway on a spring morning, when one is walking city-ward, and has before him the long lines of palace-shops with an occasional spire seen through the soft haze that lies over the lower town, and hears the roar and hum of its multitudinous traffic. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
Then I looked city-ward up stream and saw a batel cleaving the waters, whereby ❋ Anonymous (1855)
There were already many people in the streets, growing more numerous as we drove city-ward; and, in Newgate Street, there was such a number of market-carts, that we almost came to a dead lock with some of them. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
