toward

kohti

kohtaan

varten

lähellä In the direction of.

(ux)

He set his face toward the wilderness.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

His eye shall be evil toward his brother.

I am toward nine years older since I left you.

ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood ....

Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?

On the morrow … :w:Samson of Tottington|our Lord Abbot orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu, and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward, comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.

Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. ― Shakespeare.