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- adverb toward a
ship
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Examples
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Whose sound borne shipward through the ocean gloom
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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After leaving the "Mosque" the guide escorted us shipward through the business portion of the city, neat and cleanly, with hotels and stores creditable to a metropolis.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885
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[Oxford], and for-burnt the burg, and took their way on to the twa halves of Thames to shipward.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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So they drew the bridges shipward, and left the land behind,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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a box on the ears, which though it made him show his teeth, brought him to order, and the tired steed being found feeding close by, all hands agreed that, unless they wished to be benighted, it was about time to return shipward.
The Three Lieutenants William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Morien came riding over the sea-sand, and cried with a loud voice shipward: "Ye who be within tell me that which I ask lest it be to your own loss, as also I would fain know for my own profit and rejoicing.
The Romance of Morien Jessie Laidlay Weston 1889
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