Cityward

As one labours in London and sinks into a dream, remembering the hills wherein he spends a lonely summer, among Westmorland's fells and by the becks, so the Boer, called cityward, looks back upon the wide and lonely veldt which is never too wide and never lonelier to him than to any of the beasts he loves to hunt. ❋ Morley Roberts (1899)

Some revolted and migrated westward, others went cityward as cooks and barbers: Mother worked for some years at house service in Great Barrington, and after a disappointed love episode with a cousin, who went to California, she met and married Alfred Du Bois and went to town to live by the golden river where I was born. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

As Mr Arlack had originally been a member of the ardent fraternity of chummies in the cityward regions of London, he had there contracted the usual cockney contempt for the letters ❋ Unknown (2004)

So the difference between those two men, I know Bennie Mays quite a little and as I say, I admire him what he's doing now in his work with Rural Development Fund I believe they CALL it to help Negroes in poor farm counties with cooperatives though there are some whites with them too, rather than to have them continue the cityward migrations and the building up of greater ghettoes. ❋ Unknown (1972)

So he sprinted forward, regardless of her protests, and arrived at the next corner just in time to catch the car going cityward. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill Lutz (N/A)

In the interim, it may be mentioned, packed trains proceeding cityward went by, the passengers cheering us. ❋ Fred W. Ward (N/A)

Yesterday, however, I learned that two men had boarded a freight train bound cityward, at daybreak, Sunday morning, at Blair, a little watering station, some fifteen miles from here. ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

The train was there, and it bore cityward the gentlemanly Mr. Lamotte, and the half-inebriated loafer, Brooks. ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

"It is probable that the thieves tramped northward under cover of the darkness, until they struck the railroad at some previously selected point, and from thence took the first train cityward." ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

Doctor Vaughan must be ready for the return train, which flew cityward soon, and Céline Leroque must not be too long absent. ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

A few moments later, a long, empty freight train rattled cityward unnoticed, as John's regular breathing told off, faithfully as any timepiece, the fast lessening minutes which stood between him and ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)

For the second time, Madeline Payne is fleeing away from Oakley and all that it contains; fleeing cityward to begin, with the morrow, a new task, and a new chapter in her existence. ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

After a second of hesitation he began to move cityward, obeying some sheep-like instinct which impelled him to follow those who had gone on before. ❋ Various (N/A)

Far down the railroad embankment which passed the rear of the house, an engine puffed lazily cityward with a load of empty freight cars. ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)

They were on top of a motor-bus, jolting cityward, and John was gayly addressing her as Mrs. Landless, before Phyllis realized that it was really all over -- that the irrevocable step was taken -- that they were married. ❋ Munson Aldrich Havens (N/A)

Suburban trains thundered incessantly cityward, blending the snorts of their locomotives with the rumble of innumerable elevated trains and the clamoring bells of the surface cars. ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)

One of the reasons found by the Commission for the increasing flow of country youth cityward was the lack of social activities and amusements in the rural districts, and the consequent desire to migrate to localities where a denser population brought wide opportunities for social diversions. ❋ Ned Wayburn (N/A)

It still swings cityward; but just as sure as the morn turns to night it will swing again in the other direction, and that will bring us back to a more normal state of mind and body. ❋ Unknown (1925)

The taxi swung cityward, and immediately behind trailed ❋ Octavus Roy Cohen (1925)

But Mexican procrastination sometimes has its virtues, and we were delighted to find the station crowded with those waiting for the delayed convoy that ten minutes later was bearing us cityward through the cool highland night. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)