nightward
Collocations
4ADJ.
dark, faint, fast, gray, old, under
VERB + NIGHTWARD
crept, turn, wanes
NIGHTWARD + NOUN
noon, path, sometime, thoughts
PREP.
from, in, since
Definitions
adj
Toward night.
Yet, that you may see I am something suspicious of myself, and do take note of a certain belatedness in me, I am the bolder to sen you some of my nightward thoughts sometime since.
Perhaps, as if clouds that had parted, sending a sunbeam across from the west upon the dark sorrow of the morning, had shut again, inexorably, leaving him still to tread the nightward path under the old, leaden sky.
Toward the nightside of a planet.
nightward flow
nightward ion flow
adv
Into the night.
I follow soon; My day of life wanes nightward fast from noon, And evening lowers.
For life's primrose, faint and old, Nightward sweep her tides of gold, Grand with glories unrepressed, When the sun is in the west..
On or toward the nightside of a planet.
Fourth, Knudsen et al. (1982) have shown that the closure of the magnetosheth flow, as evidenced by the ionopause altitude nightward of the terminator, is appropriate for isentropic expansion into the wake of an obstacle.
Out in front of them and as far as he could see nightward, the land slowly crawled away from the desert of the Winderost and rolled back into grassy foothills lined with juniper and pine forest.
noun
The direction of oncoming night.
No time was lost betweene them, for each minute was fild with store of wit, which passed betweene them, as grounds are with shadowes where people walke: and the longer they discoursed still grew as much more excellent, as they, to nightward seeme longer.
Then when thy circuit swung to nightward, Night the abhorrèd, night was a new dawning, Celestial dawning Over the ultimate marges of the soul;
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6Yet, that you may see I am something suspicious of myself, and do take note of a certain belatedness in me, I am the bolder to sen you some of my nightward thoughts sometime since.
WiktionaryPerhaps, as if clouds that had parted, sending a sunbeam across from the west upon the dark sorrow of the morning, had shut again, inexorably, leaving him still to tread the nightward path under the o
WiktionaryWhat of the day could turn their nightward eyes?
WiktionaryI follow soon; My day of life wanes nightward fast from noon, And evening lowers.
WiktionaryFor life's primrose, faint and old, Nightward sweep her tides of gold, Grand with glories unrepressed, When the sun is in the west..
WiktionarySo the gray car crept nightward in the dark and there was no life stirred as it went by.
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