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  • adverb Alternative form of usward.

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Examples

  • Shipment-time belding crops back to Earth coming down uswards.

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  • Shipment-time belding crops back to Earth coming down uswards.

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  • A small modicum of fame (ahem) has come uswards: (actually, about thumb-nail-sized): got a call from Michalle and again rom daid saying that me and Enid were on the cover of the Belfast Telegraph (Friday).

    Approaching kick-off 2005

  • The breeze o 'morn blows uswards from her trace, viii.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Shaykh well shotten in years and sagacious in all affairs needing direction; and this oldster drew near the youth, and making lowly obeisance said to him, "By the right of Who sent thee uswards and sent us theewards, what art thou and what may be thy name and the cause of thy falling upon this ocean?"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Hurry uswards thou, nor delay, and while * My mate is far, on

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Ye be Darwayshes who enter everywhere: so when ye go in to him, tell him our tale; haply shall Almighty Allah incline his heart uswards."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • This lasted for three full-told and following days until hunger waxed hard upon them and vexation; so they said one to other, "Go we to the Sultan and let us serve him with a sleight, and each of us three shall claim to be a past master of some craft: haply Allah Almighty may incline his heart uswards and he may largesse us with something to expend upon our necessities."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The breeze o’ morn blows uswards from her trace, viii.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Lord hath turned the wisdome of the wysse unto foollishnes, and the strenthe of the strong men unto weaknes, yet seing it is a dutie that hath oftin provin comfortable to uswards, God doeth new call us in a speciall way by a singular peice of dispensatione, and knowing that all quho are acquainted with God in the land will make conscience of it, wee conceave it expedient that the quhole land be humbled for the causses following.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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