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Meanings of sunward in English
Opposite of widdershins.
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Examples for "deosil"
Examples for "deosil"
1
The couples then link hands and circle deosil to the following words:
2
One by one the witches approach the High Priestess, proceeding deosil.
3
Now make three deosil circles with your hand over the salt.
4
Then make three deosil circles over the salt and bless it.
5
Now make three deosil (clockwise) circles with your hand over the water.
1
The circuit used by the decorator of this box is dextral or sunwise.
2
In rubbing for rheumatism, etc., rub from left to right (sunwise).
3
They are lighted at the burning cauldron and they dance round in the 'sunwise' direction, i.e.
4
Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times.
5
He pointed to the tower to the left of the gate they were approaching, then in a sunwise circle.
1
In a clockwise direction, move about the ritual area in a circle.
2
He tried it in the clockwise direction, but that, too, was fruitless.
3
After leaving Weymouth, the crew turned right and headed off in an clockwise direction.
4
Stir rapidly in a clockwise direction to form thin shreds; gently to form long streams.
5
Swimming in a clockwise direction, they hope to swim up to 45 miles a day.
Usage of sunward in English
1
They're all moving sunward pretty fast, but they're not accelerating or evading.
2
It was still far beyond Mars, sweeping sunward along its immensely elongated orbit.
3
Suddenly something darted by me flying sunward; then another and another.
4
These foothills were, in fact, enormous glaciers thrust out toward the sunward hemisphere.
5
I am behind a rock forty yards to sunward of the second crater.
6
The squad ship continued sunward while Patrolman Willis continued his observations.
7
Still heading sunward, but deflecting away from the Earth vector it was on.
8
Ouster angels float in the sunlight beyond the leaf barrier sunward.
9
This will cause the temperature of its sunward-facing side to soar to 600°C.
10
In all our journeys, skyward and sunward, we never reach the End of All.
11
And through the misty air Passed like the mournful cry Of sunward sailing cranes.
12
Now the world rights itself again, and once more we are all bounding sunward.
13
The oxygen-planet to sunward showed again as a lighted crescent.
14
The two ships floated sunward together, neither approaching nor retreating.
15
It was thousands of miles away, over the great round of the sunward-turning earth!
16
So they turned their search sunward, and presently were rewarded.
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Sunward through the time