Word: landwards
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Hong Kong itself is an island topped with ''The Peak" (1,774 ft.), on the landward side of which clings the city of Victoria-a colorful jumble of Chinese tenements and British business blocks whose over-dignified architecture justifies the city's name...
...made U. S. consul at Tunis. In 1804 he became "Navy Agent to the Barbary States" and as such led his heterogeneous force from Alexandria, Egypt, through the Libyan Desert and attacked Derna from the landward side while U. S. gunboats under Commodore Samuel Barron bombarded the town from the sea. Hot of temper and loose of tongue...
...Boston approach the work has not yet touched Cambridge street anywhere on the landward side of Charles street. It is expected, however, that Cambridge street will be widened in much the same fashion as Main street, and be made to spread out from the corner of Grove street until it reaches the bridge structure with the desired width of 105 feet...
Sees, out beyond the landward breakers' roar...