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  • adverb toward a hill; toward the hills
  • adjective which faces a hill; which faces the hills

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Examples

  • "The way I see it, " said Debbie, swinging her reddish brown pigtails from lakeside to hillward, -is that the peyote mellowed them out.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • My dear young friends, accept this faith and you will find in it a sweet companion up the hillward way of life, and down the sunset slope to the valley of death, where it will not leave nor forsake you, but will wait till you throw off your "burden of clay," then "bear you away on its balmy wings to your eternal home."

    Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

  • Falmouth's advance had driven the villagers hillward.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Falmouth's advance had driven the villagers hillward.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • I who have packed my wanderer's wallet with the gentle secrets of summer nights, of springtime hillsides, and wintry sunshine, I who have always tramped to the call of a lonely road, should I turn craven stay-at-home when life's wild weather draws my feet hillward through grim slush and sleet?

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • If the latter, we can, in imagination, see him look once at the new house on his hunting pasture, slacken rein for a moment in front of the group of families, lift his hand in sign of peace, and silently go his way hillward.

    Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908

  • It was the secret thought of this, and of the hillward outlook from the little windows, that had ironed the lines from his face in Mr. Traill's dining-room.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • So, at the Kulu woman's house I turned hillward, over-persuaded by myself.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Along the marsh, and hillward the roads are sweet with fern.

    Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea Bliss Carman 1895

  • As this road is the only outlet hillward for all the life of the plain, and as the tendency of every valley population is to climb, one thinks of it as a way out rather than a way in.

    The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892

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