riverwardsadv.

1834 Rep. Cases King's Bench Reign William IV I. 92 The argument derivable from the non-payment of a tax on coals brought riverwards, whilst seaborne coals were liable to pay it, only proves that the river navigation is not a navigation ‘coastwise’ or ‘by sea’.

1902 Musical Times 43 158/2 In olden times an Ely Prelate would..proceed to the capital of his See riverwards in an episcopal barge.

1838 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 9 Jan. 1/3 They have felled the trees so that their tops are riverwards, rendering a landing almost impossible.

1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 20 A pair or two..every evening fly over us riverwards.

1879 E. S. Phelps Sealed Orders 255 ‘It seems we are to leave them behind’, the gentleman explained,..standing, as the young lady stood, still looking intently river-wards.

1924 M. Arlen Green Hat x. 271 We were on our way riverwards, and I sitting beside Iris as she hurled us headlong through the still night.

1986 G. Butler Coffin on Water (1989) i. 16 Together they walked with her to the theatre which could be seen from the station, lying riverwards.

2002 P. Horne in C. Dickens Oliver Twist (2003) 523 Dickens leads us from Dockhead..down Mill-lane riverwards into what had been for some decades a strange damp slum itself.