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Examples
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Heading weatherward, he gave more heed to the wheel, for there were signs that the water was going to roughen somewhat.
The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise 1895
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"Joe," called Tom to his chum as the latter came on deck between wireless performances, "do you notice that the fog is lightening off to weatherward?"
The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise 1895
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Clutching at the rail, Tom Halstead kept his face turned weatherward most of the time.
The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise 1895
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On the most weatherward gable the iron in the stone had shed a dark red stain under the lash of many winter storms, and some tough lichens had incrusted patches of the surface; but, for the rest, the walls rose in the univied nakedness of all ruins in our climate, which has no clinging evergreens wherewith to pity and soften the forlornness of decay.
A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878
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But his way it was, when he was sitting at the drink, that one of his men should sit at the watch-window, looking weatherward from the drinking hall, and keep watch there.
The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 Anonymous 1865
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