Sunwards

* Because the axis on which our planet spins is tilted relative to the axis of rotation around the sun, we experience longer days and shorter nights during the half of the year when the hemisphere on which we happen to live is tilted sunwards, the period that climaxes in summer. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

Furthermore, if ephemeris time is that measured in the “photonic” system, as it is in a certain suggested alternatives to GR, then the Pioneer spacecraft will appear to have an anomalous sunwards acceleration of cH or 6. 69×10-8 cm. sec-2; such an acceleration aP = (8. 74±1.33) ×10-8 cm. sec-2 is actually observed. ❋ Sean (2007)

The appearance of hundreds of these creatures, each eighteen inches long, sitting like dogs begging, with their paws down and all turned sunwards, is most grotesque. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was so glad to leave at the end of the week, and to move out of the raw, white fog sunwards. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The surface-water shivered; and the upper spray was swept off by the north wind, which waxed colder and more biting as we steered sunwards. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying — the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring — that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Nor has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying head, and then gone round again, without a lesson to me. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And so, during the past few centuries, the whole terrestrial population had streamed up the equatorial Towers and flowed sunwards towards the young oceans of Venus, the fertile plains of Mercury's Temperate Zone. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1979)

But even such a brief foray would be worth it; there was so little time, as Rama hurtled sunwards towards a perihelion too dangerous for Endeavour to match. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1973)

Almost all moved in orbits that lay beyond Mars; only the few that came far enough sunwards to be a possible danger to Earth were the concern of SPACEGUARD. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1973)

The Earth had only to move a few million kilometres sunwards - or starwards - for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1973)

In some places they even mingled with the sea-plants which grew sunwards from the seabottom, forming an unbroken wall of green against which water lapped viscously. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1973)

He would never forget the images of hurricanes and tidal waves, of cities sliding into the sea, as that other visitor from the stars smashed into Jupiter and then fell sunwards past the Earth. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1973)

In some places they even mingled with the sea? plants which grew sunwards from the seabottom, forming an unbroken wall of green against which water lapped viscously. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1973)

Now that Endeavour's orbit had coalesced with Rama's they were heading sunwards like a single body; in forty days they would reach peri - helion, and pass within twenty million kilometres of the sun. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1973)

Sunward high boys have no [sperm] ❋ Sembii ILife (2020)