adv. [-WARDS.] = prec.
1834. Bristol Mercury & Daily Post, 17 May, 2/2. He was standing at his parlour window, very sad and melancholy, looking at and envying his fortunate neighbours as they bustled townwards to their several occupations.
1895. P. Hemingway, Out of Egypt, II. 175. I stood watching a vessel in the harbour, that stared townwards with a hundred unblinking eyes.
1908. Daily Chron., 15 Feb., 7/5. A West London [cycling] club, recently returning … townwards, through Brentford.
