landward

[…] the enclosure in which Bulan resided lay on a landward slope a quarter of a mile from the shore, and so divided from it by lofty trees, that, unless when the inhabitants sought the coast for fishing, they took little heed of what was passing at sea.

1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 8, in Adventures in Borneo: A Tale of Shipwreck, London: Henry Colburn, page 205

So, when the landward breeze winds up from the quickening sea, And leaves quiver of a sudden and life is here and the day, You shall fade away and pass As—when we breathed upon your mirror’s glass— Our faces died away.

1907, Ford Madox Ford, “A Sequence”, in From Inland, and Other Poems, London: Alston Rivers, page xxiii

As a temporary measure, the line was at first moved some 8 ft. to the landward side to permit the passage of trains at reduced speed. […] 400 yd. of new retaining wall built on the landward side has allowed the tracks to be realigned here for normal high-speed running.

1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 709

[…] further research will be required to assess “just how much of a difference for potential ground shaking in Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, etc., may result from an approximately 50-km landward shift” of the expected impact zone.

2012 August 3, Randy Boswell, “‘The clock is ticking’: ‘Megathrust’ West coast earthquake could resemble Japan’s, studies say”, in National Post

1790, John Naismith, Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry Pursued in Scotland, Edinburgh: self-published, Book III, Chapter 2, pp. 331-332, Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people.

“I do not mean to offend,” said I. “I have no skill of city manners; I never before this day set foot inside the doors of Edinburgh. Take me for a country lad—it’s what I am; and I would rather I told you than you found it out.” ¶ “Indeed, it will be a very unusual thing for strangers to be speaking to each other on the causeway,” she replied. “But if you are landward bred it will be different. I am as landward as yourself; I am Highland, as you see, and think myself the farther from my home.”

1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, Chapter

’Twas the returning tide, that afar from the waste of the ocean, With the first dawn of the day, came heaving and hurrying landward.

1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “V”, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, lines 661-662

The intertidal mud or sand flat habitat is continuous with many other habitats. Landward, it may be bordered by a beach, marsh, bulkhead, or stretch of riprap.

1984, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, chapter 3, in Life in the Chesapeake Bay, 2nd edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1997, page 50

2014, “Is Australia responsible for asylum seekers detained on Manus Island?” ABC News, 27 February, 2014, “The position of successive Australian Governments has been that the Refugees Convention only applies to persons within Australia’s territorial boundaries (that is, landward of the outer limits of the territorial sea),” the report said.

The Generall then being at supper, and hearing that call, and looking out to landward, sawe those savage people comming after [Fernan Veloso], and presently imagined they meant him harme, and therefore forthwith he commaunded the whole to put themselves in battaile araye, and he himselfe with certaine others, went to landward without anye weapons, deeming verely that those blacke men meant him no harme, nor would offer annye force […]

1582, chapter 2, in Nicholas Lichefield, transl., The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias […] set foorth in the Portingale language by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda, London: Thomas East

The Town is large, containing about five hundred well-built Houses, built with Dutch-Brick, and the meanest not valued under one hundred Pounds; to the landward it is encompassed with a Wall of a good thickness, and fortified at the entrance of the River, so as to command any Ship which passeth that way, by a Fort, called James-Fort […]

1687, Richard Blome, “A Description of New-York”, in The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, London: D. Newman, page 203

He sailed along, still northward, day after day; several important people joined him; but the news from landward grew daily more ominous […]

1875, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 10, in The Early Kings of Norway, London: Chapman & Hall, page 139