sunwards

* Because the axis on which our planet spins is tilted relative to the axis of rotation around the sun, we experience longer days and shorter nights during the half of the year when the hemisphere on which we happen to live is tilted sunwards, the period that climaxes in summer.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

* Because the axis on which our planet spins is tilted relative to the axis of rotation around the sun, we experience longer days and shorter nights during the half of the year when the hemisphere on which we happen to live is tilted sunwards, the period that climaxes in summer.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The appearance of hundreds of these creatures, each eighteen inches long, sitting like dogs begging, with their paws down and all turned sunwards, is most grotesque.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Furthermore, if ephemeris time is that measured in the “photonic” system, as it is in a certain suggested alternatives to GR, then the Pioneer spacecraft will appear to have an anomalous sunwards acceleration of cH or 6. 69×10-8 cm. sec-2; such an acceleration aP = (8. 74±1.33) ×10-8 cm. sec-2 is actually observed.

Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007

I was so glad to leave at the end of the week, and to move out of the raw, white fog sunwards.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms.

Hunger 2003

The surface-water shivered; and the upper spray was swept off by the north wind, which waxed colder and more biting as we steered sunwards.

The Land of Midian 2003

For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying — the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring — that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Nor has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying head, and then gone round again, without a lesson to me.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

And so, during the past few centuries, the whole terrestrial population had streamed up the equatorial Towers and flowed sunwards towards the young oceans of Venus, the fertile plains of Mercury's Temperate Zone.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979