Sentence examples for shadows toward from inspiring English sources

But soon, a semicircle of Texans – reaching nearly a half-mile long – was running through the lengthening shadows toward the Union battery.

I set out across the square with its lengthening shadows toward a whitewashed church, Santa Catalina de Ricci, whose heavy wooden doors were flung open.

The lovers race through the shadows toward and away from each other, Juliet a little hesitant at times, but relaxing into Romeo's ardent (and difficult) lifts of her softly arching body.

Dark and smudgy and heavily worked, it depicts a silhouetted figure in a jail cell, reaching forward through the bars, which cast long shadows, toward a dog dangling a key from its mouth.

— July 18 , 1977From "Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author" Though Henry Bech, the author, in his middle years had all but ceased to write, his books continued, as if ironically, to live, to cast shuddering shadows toward the center of his life, where that thing called his reputation cowered.

MOON SHADOWS: Toward the end of "The Right Stuff," Tom Wolfe's exhilarating look at America's early space program, there's a riff about the pressure facing astronauts' families: "The Astronaut's Wife had been converted from an individual to a performer, at least for the duration of the flight — ready or willing or good at it or not.

Answer Lively cast a lengthening shadow toward next year's Kentucky Derby by winning today's $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by a head over the 76-1 long shot Aly's Alley.

He sewed a picture of Mantle swinging for the upper deck; Tony Kubek scooping up a grounder at shortstop, with a view behind him of the bleachers packed with fans; and Clete Boyer crouching at third base, baked by sunlight, casting a shadow toward the outfield.

Shadows beckon toward the new Frick Chemistry Lab, which opened last fall.

As Frank walks across the lawn, a few shadows flicker toward the house: "The cats had survived.

The day comes round with no sign of the samurai, but late that night, as the moon sets behind the hills (the stories are worth reading for their beautiful atmospheric touches alone), the scholar sees "a figure in the shadows, moving toward him with the wind".