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Then she acquainted him with the affair of the blacksmith and how he had done nobly by them, whenas the Jew had inflicted on her and her women heart-confounding torments; and how his victims deathwards he drave, nor was there any found to save.
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Father Collignon's suggestion is a good one, and, I should note, in keeping with a remark in the essay by John V. Kelleher to which I referred: "The context of the sentence is thoughts of death and of the dead, of a whole country swooning deathwards under the falling snow."
The Journey Westward Collignon, James 1988
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The riders dared deathwards each trusting his star.
Right Royal John Masefield 1922
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When I look deathwards I look over death, and upwards, or I can't look that way at all.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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Then she acquainted him with the affair of the blacksmith and how he had done nobly by them, whenas the Jew had inflicted on her and her women heart-confounding torments; and how his victims deathwards he drave, nor was there any found to save.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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When I look deathwards I look _over_ death, and upwards, or I can't look that way at all.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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