leeward
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They had not remained for another turn, but had taken their course, evidently, back to the principal drawing-room, where, no less presumably, the procession of the ladies bedward was even then forming.
From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry
Esk and Peter, being instantly hustled bedward, left lamenting and asserting that they too were old enough to imitate Sir William.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
He made no resistance; but he wept while she conducted him bedward, as the immemorial wrongs of Ireland tore his soul.
From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
She said: "Farewell, my brother, for the earls my candles light, And I must wend me bedward lest I lose the flower of night."
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William
So they went bedward, and Ralph slept dreamlessly, as was mostly his wont.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William
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The Cay
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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The Waste Land
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