towards

See:
  • be (well) on the/(one's) way to/towards (something)
  • be on the/your way to/towards something
  • come out toward(s) (someone or something)
  • gear toward (someone or something)
  • go a long way toward (doing something)
  • go a long/some way towards doing something
  • go toward (someone or something)
  • lean toward (someone or something)
  • look toward
  • lurch toward (someone or something)
  • make toward (something)
  • pay (something) toward (something else)
  • point toward (someone or something)
  • progress toward (something)
  • save toward (something)
  • slant toward (someone or something)
  • steer toward (something)
  • sway toward (something)
  • swim toward (someone or something)
  • tend toward (something)
  • trend toward (something)
  • turn toward (someone or something)
  • veer toward (someone or something)
  • well disposed toward (someone or something)
  • with an eye towards (doing) (something)
  • work toward (something)
References in classic literature
The crowd far away on the left, towards Woking, seemed to grow, and I heard now a faint murmur from it.
This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal.
So surprised and horrified was Solan that he forgot to finish his thrust; instead, he wheeled toward the switch with a loud shriek--a shriek which was his last, for before his hand could touch the lever it sought, my sword's point had passed through his heart.
It was such a pack of scoundrels that Bududreen led toward the north campong to bear away the treasure.
Toward the southeast of Gathol was such a country, and as Gahan surmised the direction and the velocity of the storm to have carried him somewhere in the vicinity of the country he thought he recognized, he assumed that Gathol lay behind the hills he now saw, whereas, in reality, it lay far to the northeast.
In his insistent crawling toward the light, he discovered in her a nose that with a sharp nudge administered rebuke, and later, a paw, that crushed him down and rolled him over and over with swift, calculating stroke.
Then he turned and retraced his steps toward the palace, leaving her alone in the midst of the unseen terrors of the haunted city, for in truth these places are haunted in the belief of many Martians who still cling to an ancient superstition which teaches that the spirits of Holy Therns who die before their allotted one thousand years, pass, on occasions, into the bodies of the great white apes.
They saw a giant white man leap from the branches of a tree to the turf and race rapidly toward the plane.
It is enough that within another minute or two, Tars Tarkas, wearing the metal of a Warhoon chief, was hurrying down the corridor toward the spiral runway, bearing the Warhoon's torch to light his way.
What he was most interested in knowing was that he was upon the right trail, and that it led toward the interior.
The lidi, with the hounds running close on either side, had almost disappeared in the darkness that en-veloped the surrounding landscape, when I noted that it was bearing toward the right.
Our bow was pointed straight toward the U-boat now as I heard word passed to the engine for full speed ahead.
For a time no one turned back toward the thing that had frightened them, but Tarzan knew that they would in a moment, and when they discovered that it was but the dead body of their sentry, while they would doubtless be still further terrified, he had a rather definite idea as to what they would do, and so he faded silently away toward the south, taking the moonlit upper terrace back toward the camp of the Waziri.
La raised her slender arm and pointed toward the sun.
When we came down to drink I knew that no danger lurked near upon this side of the water hole, for else the zebras would have discovered it and fled before we came; but upon the other side toward which the wind blows danger might lie concealed.