He chose this method of estimating their present position because the alternative would have been to look groundward.

A low groan shook the air around him, then he started to swing groundward as the enormous body rolled to its back.

The driver's mirror caught him as he fell groundward, knocking him finally unconscious.

Suddenly the ship began to sink groundward.

So swift was the pace now that within a few minutes a wide clearing loomed ahead and her captor began to slip groundward.

I realize my head probably hurts so much because the car is currently falling groundward after being thrown from the force of a heavy mine explosion.

Yes, Giacobini-Zinner, dear needle-nosed Jake, bulleting groundward, hovering, settling in a whirl of kicked-up snow .

Shalla dove again, came up immediately beneath the walkway, and rotated ninety degrees, her wings now pointing skyward and groundward, to fit in the narrowing gap between buildings.

The tower is haloed in light: sunglow rebounds from its flanks, strikes the surrounding fields of snow, leaps up again to kiss the glassy walls, is hurled groundward once more.