oceanward

Updated: June 28, 2025

Many of the available tracts were so narrow that the cost of embankment was very high in proportion to the area secured; and hurricanes from oceanward sometimes raised the streams until they over-topped the banks and broke them. If these invading waters were briny the standing crop would be killed and the soil perhaps made useless for several years until fresh water had leached out the salt.

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

Far off oceanward, the fog-horn was lowing like a lost gigantic bull. The gray bulk of a policeman the light from the street lamp reflected in his star loomed up on the corner as they descended from the car. Condy had intended to call his diver's story "A Submarine Romance," but Blix had disapproved. "It's too 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," she had said.

Frank Norris - Blix