And a good way off, was the shining that I had journeyed unto, and the shining went into a distant light through a part of the Land that lay afar to my left, for it stretched a great and strange way toward me, out of the Leftward gloom, and came unto my front, and so away into an utter distance.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
His design was to conduct her near to Bormio, there to engage a couple of men in her service who would accompany her to Meran, by the Val di Sole, while he crossed the Stelvio alone, and turning Leftward in the Tyrolese valley, tried the passage into Switzerland.
"Vittoria, v4"
George Meredith
They had made another Leftward turn by now, and come upon a cottage set a little way back from the road,-a cottage with a wicket gate between two hedges, and a flagged path leading up to a small porch, thatched, as was the cottage.
"Antony Gray,--Gardener"
Leslie Moore