A crowd was the last thing that he wished to have about when he made his drop Earthward.
"The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune"
Wilbur Lawton
Julia picked it up, cocked as it was, and held it out, muzzle Earthward.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
As a guide to this, observe that the dark part of Venus's Earthward side is always proportional in area to the angle at Venus between the earth and sun.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock