Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffer from alcoholic poisoning"--like "to be hanged by the neck until dead", the phrase has an ominous connotation. The sufferer may be blissfully unconscious of his pain. He may shout joyfully--he may even sing; but these external manifestations of an inward laceration mean nothing. No lady will look upon him other than as on one whose punishment is that of the damned and whose torture knows no alleviation. And so, as the damsel said, "He may be boiled to you but to me he's an unfortunate victim of alcoholic poisoning...
...face of grey granite. This face quivers. This grey face is the lustreless eyes [sic] of a gentlewoman whose tears must all be running inward...
...Temperamentally, through all the crucifixion of the months that preceded the tragedy of the murder of her husband and Mrs. Mills, this woman's bitter, salty tears must have flowed inward, drenching the wounds in her heart and soul...
...brain, each alone, yet united in a common consciousness, each fiercely kinetic, yet keeping its place in a segment, an area at once cut off from and united to other areas by dark intersecting lanes, and every cell, every segment, every area of the vast filled hollow burning inward and downward upon the mysterious core of its life-a little white ring with four posts. To conceive of this is not to exaggerate. But you must add that every cell of this huge mind was itself a mind. And that one mind, one cell, included the whole...
...water that raced ashore with terrific impact, spinning up trees by their roots, cottages by their foundations, dragging wreckage into the Sound on its backwash. (Cyclones and waterspouts [which are cyclones over water] are caused by air rushing to fill an area of low pressure, being diverted into an inward spiral motion by the spin of the earth. The spiral is always counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern. The "path" of a cyclone is determined by the larger air currents in which the spiral motion occurs, as an eddy is carried down a brook.) In England, townsfolk...