lightward

I ran along the palm alleys and through the winding streets of orange trees and handsome stucco homes—streets of westward dreams, the kind of place my father could have taken us half a century earlier, lightward and westward, where people came to escape the hard-luck past with its gray streets and crowded flats and cabbage smells in the hallway.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

I ran along the palm alleys and through the winding streets of orange trees and handsome stucco homes—streets of westward dreams, the kind of place my father could have taken us half a century earlier, lightward and westward, where people came to escape the hard-luck past with its gray streets and crowded flats and cabbage smells in the hallway.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

I ran along the palm alleys and through the winding streets of orange trees and handsome stucco homes—streets of westward dreams, the kind of place my father could have taken us half a century earlier, lightward and westward, where people came to escape the hard-luck past with its gray streets and crowded flats and cabbage smells in the hallway.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren't men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

They seemed to struggle lightward from a sturdy living heart.

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren’t men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan. —

Ulysses 2003