At thy rebuke they fled, at the known voice Of their Lord's thunder they retired apace: Some up the mountains passed by secret ways, Some downwards to their place.
Then his body sank backwards against the side of the car, whilst one arm hung helplessly downwards in the air.
In this fearful extremity, he seized the rope with his teeth, dipped his head downwards two or three times, and found to his relief that the machine was rapidly descending into a more genial sphere.
The hapless column in the Place Vendome, now overthrown by the hands of Frenchmen themselves, was described by an aeronaut as a kind of 'pin stuck head downwards in a cushion.
Mrs Merton hurriedly obeyed, and the nurse, shutting her eyes, plunged it downwards with a wild hysterical shriek.
Doubtless the majority of the peerage from the revolutiondownwards to the death of George II.
The discarded cards are thrown face downwards in the centre of the table.
These rejected cards are to be laid face downwards on the table, and may not be inspected by any one.
The remaining cards, known as the "stock," are placed face downwards beside it.
The undealt portion of the pack is placed face downwards between the players.
The eight cards that remain (called the "stock") are placed face downwards between the players.
Each player now "lays out" two of his cards (placed face downwards to the right hand of the dealer) to form what is called the "crib.
The cards he has discarded, as also those of any players who pass, are thrown face downwards in the middle of the table, and no one has a right to look at them.
The remaining three cards are laid face downwards on the table, and constitute the "widow.
The dealer discards the worst card of his own hand, placing it face downwards under the pack, and the turn-up card is thenceforth considered to form part of his hand.
Godron remarks that in habitually irregular flowers the apex of the peduncle is oblique, and hence the flowers are bent downwards or spread horizontally, but if the receptacle be quite flat and level then the flower is regular.
A roast Hare must be cut along the spine, from the neck downwards to obtain the fillets, which ought then to be divided in parts, in the same oblique direction as the ribs.
Now at last it caught, and it was a flaming torch running downwards with a thin shower of flaming fat.
Under an old banyan tree, with its tent-like stems turned downwards and its dense canopy of green overhead, stood a dainty breakfast table.
At one end a great banyan tree, with its branches growing downwards on the brown grass and its dense foliage of glossy green, made a chosen retreat for the various native witnesses and the police peons in attendance at the Court House.
Up, up it sped, as though to pierce the very heavens; then hovered, wheeled and swoopeddownwards above the girl.
And, arrived at her house, she stormed through court and rooms and down to the bottom of the scented garden, leaving a trail of terror-stricken servants lying face downwards in her wake.
He passes his time either on the Lung' Arno, staring at the water, or stretched face downwards upon his bed.
In almost all Crustacea the food-canal runs straight through the body, except at its anterior end, where it curves downwards to the ventrally-placed mouth.
The "jump stroke" is made by striking downwards on to the ball, which can thus be made to jump over another ball, or even a hoop.
Anyway, the next instant, Tammy gave out an awful scream, and was head downwards over the rail, in a second.
All along the port rail there was a queer, undulating greyness, that moved downwards inboard, and spread over the decks.
They nurse their young by forming a kind of couch with their body suspended downwardsfrom the branches of a tree.
But all that we do know points downwards, downwards still, warning us that we must dig deeper than we have dug as yet, before we reach the graves of the first living things.
In Las Palmas I saw for the first time women washing the family linen at the sides of the roads in the streams that flow downwards through pebble and shingle.
Their prayer is directed, not upwards through that dome to the heavens above it, but downwards into that vault where sleep, as they believe, the ashes of Peter and Paul.
Its windows opened sweetly upon the fine gardens of the palace, where the first ray, as it slants downwards from the crest of the Alps into the valley of the Po, falls on the massy foliage of the mulberry and the orange.
But they increase in quantity downwards and probably extend continuously round the globe below the other rocks.
The observed increase of temperature downwards in our planet has hitherto been generally accepted as a relic and proof of an original high temperature and mobility of substance.
The valley, composed of two lateral parallel slopes inclined towards a narrow strip of plain at a lower level which itself slopes downwards in the direction of its length.
Then the line XOX being of finite length, the watch will return to O, but at its first return it will be found to be face downwards on the other side of the plane, with the line 12 to 6 reversed in direction along the line YOY.
Traced downwards the blocks are seen to become gradually smaller and more rounded.
Some living species of plants and animals can be traced downwards through the more recent geological formations; but the number which can be so followed grows smaller as the examination is pursued into more ancient deposits.
Above him burned half a dozen arc-lamps, whose brilliant rays were reflected directly downwards by polished metal discs.
Wedge fell forward and downwards with a sharp cry.
But 'a was never much in luck's way, and perhaps 'a went downwards after all, poor soul.
From her feet, and between the beautiful yellowing ferns with their feathery arms, the ground sloped downwardsto a hollow, in which was a species of swamp, dotted with fungi.
The circumstance had been the gentle dip of Troy's mouth downwards upon her own.
In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
The wire now works as far as Sooro, and is also erected downwards from Senafe to Rayray Guddy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
