Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward us.
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- adverb archaic Toward us.
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Examples
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I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless
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“The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to usward.”
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907
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And a dragon of horrible great form lay under the ladder, which made every man to dread and fear to mount up, and she saw Satyra ascending by the same unto above and looking to usward, and said: Doubt ye nothing this dragon, but come up surely that ye may be with me.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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His own proper dignity, and by the other His grace to usward.
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Is then the confession of the grace wrought by Him to usward a detraction from His glory?
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Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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In that radiant original universe also all the thoughts of GOD which were to usward from everlasting, all the Divine ideas, patterns, and plans of things, are laid open, displayed, copied out and sealed up for future worlds to see carried out.
Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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Here we are, by God's grace and long-suffering to usward, near the end of another year, another vicious year; and why have we been borne with through so many vicious years but that we should now cease from vice and begin to learn virtue?
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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Though clothed with love and faith to usward plight,
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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