sunward

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After making this curious comparison they hastened sunward, the guide promising to join us shortly on the bank of a deep pool, where we were to wait for him.

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  • "Battle sphere rapidly overhauling us from sunward, sir," said the man. —  Astounding Stories, February 1932
  • Perhaps the cells that directed the vast bar-beast still farther sunward were, by now, a mind.
  • The Meteor shot on through space, sunward, ever sunward. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • Twice Defoe spotted wild rocs eyeing the flock from sunward, hoping for a goose dinner. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 05 - May 2000
  • The simulated asteroid belt matched the real asteroid belt quite well on the sunward-facing sides of the Kirkwood gaps, but the real asteroid belt seemed to be depleted in asteroids on the Jupiter-facing sides. —  Spaceflight Now
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/ˈsunwɑrd, wɑrdz/
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