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- adverb Alternative form of
bedward .
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Examples
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When Elspeth pouted those red lips, and heaved her remarkable bosom in a sigh, my thoughts always galloped bedwards, and she knew it.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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The last time I was spotted Thursday night was outside the hotel, smoking at 1: 30 in the morning, then staggering away bedwards with a weeble-like sway, which was a matter of much concern to those who saw me (they obviously don't know me well enough).
Wiscon Hal Duncan 2006
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The last time I was spotted Thursday night was outside the hotel, smoking at 1: 30 in the morning, then staggering away bedwards with a weeble-like sway, which was a matter of much concern to those who saw me (they obviously don't know me well enough).
Archive 2006-05-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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He indicated my simple tasks, and without more ado set off at an amble bedwards.
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Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.
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It would be necessary, I found, to oust two or three bare-knees who had marked them for their own, but that could easily be done, if, as was unlikely to be the case, they were sober enough at night to crawl bedwards.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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He indicated my simple tasks, and without more ado set off at an amble bedwards.
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He indicated my simple tasks, and without more ado set off at an amble bedwards.
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He indicated my simple tasks, and without more ado set off at an amble bedwards.
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907
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I had written thus far, and was about to rise to go off bedwards when, through the window before me, I saw the heavy pall of July cloud suddenly part a little, and a big star shine through.
The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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