41692 examples of toward in sentences

The only time of the day when our spirits began to fail was toward its close, when the shadows of supper and bed in some inclement inn began to fall over us, and we confessed to each other a positive sense of fear in our evening approach to the abodes of men.

He met many wagons coming toward him, but there seemed to be few going in to the city.

It seemed to turn away, after a little distance, from the direct line to the city, and to bear to the west, toward the river.

Craft raised himself on his cane to lean toward Sharpman.

The counsel for the plaintiff can afford to laugh at their animosity toward himself, but he cannot help his indignation at their plot.

The brow of the hill which they were now descending hid the house at last from sight, and, with tear-blinded eyes, Ralph turned his face again toward the city, toward the misery of the court-room, toward the desolate and dreadful prospect of a life with Simon Craft.

Ralph resolved, at any rate, to do all that lay in his power toward the attainment of useful and honorable manhood.

The chamber in which the young man was laboring was the longest one in the tier, and the loaded car was usually at the foot of it when Ralph arrived with his trip of lights; so that he had only to run the empty car up into the air-way a few feet, take on the loaded one, and start back toward the plane.

A half-dozen or more of men and boys were there, crowding in toward the carriage-way, with fear stamped on their soiled faces, looking anxiously up for the descending carriage.

" Another blazing stick fell as the lad darted out from among the men and ran toward the foot of the plane.

At the same moment a man appeared from a lower entrance and hurried toward the group.

Instinctively he made his way along the passage to which he was most accustomed toward the foot of the plane.

The mule had been gazing contemplatively down the plane into the darkness; finally he turned and faced toward the interior of the mine.

He remembered how, long ago, he had resolved to strive toward the perfect manhood exemplified in this man's life.

To go into one would be to go still farther and deeper into the recesses of the old mine; to go into the other would be to go toward the slope, toward the outer world, toward his mother and his home.

To go into one would be to go still farther and deeper into the recesses of the old mine; to go into the other would be to go toward the slope, toward the outer world, toward his mother and his home.

To go into one would be to go still farther and deeper into the recesses of the old mine; to go into the other would be to go toward the slope, toward the outer world, toward his mother and his home.

is Ralphis Ralph" She was leaning toward him with clasped hands.

and he started rapidly down the hill toward the mouth of the shaft.

Keeping his gaze fixed on Cartwright across the roomfor the moment he showed his intention, Cartwright would shoothe maneuvered softly toward the bed.

On the side of the door toward which he drove there were only three men in the hall; behind him were more, far more, but their weapons were neutralized.

Into the gathering gloom she strained her eyes; toward Sour Creek she strained her ears, starting at every faint sound of a man's shout or the barking of a dog, as if this might be the beginning of the uproar that would announce the escape.

His intention must have been guessed, for she could not imagine that slippery and cold-minded fellow being thwarted, if he were left free to work as he pleased toward an object he desired.

Then she turned her horse back toward Sour Creek and urged it to a steady gallop, bouncing in the saddle.

He sank into the opposite chair, leaning far across the table toward her.

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