"Inwards" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Just after it was dark they made a biggish raid and got into our front trench a little to our right. We started bombing inwards, but the slope of the ground was awkward, and they seemed to be having ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various
... had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil ...
— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings
... The region of practical politics for many of the coming questions was as yet almost half-a-century off, and having no effective means of influencing many matters which did, nevertheless, touch their daily lives very closely, they turned their attention inwards to the mental exercise of debating abstract questions of high philosophy ...
— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston
... came up to the door and tried to open it; but as the door opened inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself, "Then I'll go 'round and ...
— Alice in Wonderland • Lewis Carroll
... seen slowly advancing into the area already occupied as we have described. This party was preceded by the Adjutant Lawson, who, advancing towards Major Blackwater, communicated a message, that was followed by the command of the latter officer for the three divisions to face inwards. The officer of artillery also gave the word to his men to form lines of single files immediately in the rear of their respective guns, leaving space enough for the entrance of the approaching party, which consisted of half a ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson
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