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c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3911 (MED) If y me take to þe ryuer ward, þe strem ys so stil & hard, þat þer me tyd adrenche.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. ccxlvi/2 Than the frenchmen drewe backe to the ryuer warde to come to their vesselles.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. iv. §vi. 432 This Riuer..runneth Westerly by the North side of the Citie: vpon which within the Castle is the Kings house, passing in at the middle gate to the Riuer-ward.

1698 tr. R. de Lussan Jrnl. Voy. into South Sea iv. 124 The Town, as I have observed, is to the River-ward encompassed with a Wall four Foot and an half high, and three Foot thick.

1743 C. Perry View of Levant iii. 359 We were a little surprised..to find the Front of this Temple to the Riverward.

1771 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Hist. Bucaniers of Amer. (ed. 5) I. ii. iv. 258 The town, as I have observed, is to the river-ward, encompassed with a wall.

1896 Atlantic Monthly May 598/1 The little stony gulch that puckers the first rising-ground to riverward of the hollow.

1903 A. Mackenzie Let. 28 July in Ann. Rep. U.S. War Dept. X. 1704 The applicants signify their acceptance of the line,..and also agree to remove..all fill to the riverward of such line.