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Definition of Leftwards
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leftwards
Literary usage of Leftwards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"If we suddenly turn our head leftwards it is hard to make the eyes follow. ...
Even though we falsely think our head to be moving leftwards, ..."
2. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1899)
"... upwards and leftwards, downwards and rightwards, downwards and leftwards, the
legs of the retinal cross no longer make a right angle with each other, ..."
3. From Tokyo to Tiflis: Uncensored Letters from the War by Fred Arthur McKenzie (1905)
"The Russian position at Chia-a-tzu consisted of a ridge, the maximum height of
which was 130 feet, running leftwards from the mountain range and gradually ..."
4. Popular Lectures and Addresses by William Thomson Kelvin (1891)
"The maximum of rarefaction you see now when this first portion is moving fastest
leftwards. When, as you see now, it is for an instant at rest, ..."
5. Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865: The Wilderness and Cold Harbor (May 3 by Charles Francis Atkinson (1908)
"... centres of operations to gain a better direction for its attack, the Union
side leftwards towards the sea, the Confederate leftwards towards the Valley. ..."
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