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  • The passengers of the wrecked ship had long ago started villageward, there to entrain for the city, leaving two of their number behind.

    The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue Laura Lee Hope

  • Anton, a Dukhobor whom I know, is facing villageward.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • The result in this instance was that before I had more than assimilated the gist of the word which had been brought to the fields, I was alone, watching my co-workers speeding villageward.

    Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • "A vast and silent bay, belted by silent villages: -- gaunt dogs howling over grassy thresholds at stark corpses of old age and infancy; gray hairs mingling with sweet flaxen curls; fields, with turned furrows, choked with briers; arbor-floors strown over with hatchet-helves, rotting in the iron; a thousand paths, marked with foot-prints, all inland leading, none villageward; and strown with traces, as of a flying host.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

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