But the dream of a bountiful West Coast urged the Joads onward.
Onward and downward we went, until we came to the angular ranks of tent-shaped wooden racks, each of them sprouting dozens of bottles.
A thousand men in cloth of gold, mounted upon richly caparisoned elephants, go before him, and as the procession moves onward the officer who guides his elephant cries aloud, `Behold the mighty monarch, the powerful and valiant Sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with a hundred thousand rubies, who possesses twenty thousand diamond crowns.
Having loaded the beast as much as he could bear, he was driving him home, when, as they were passing a slippery ledge of rock, the Ass fell into the stream below, and the Salt being melted, the Ass was relieved of his burden, and having gained the bank with ease, pursued his journey onward, light in body and in spirit.
Then they traveled onward.
" He put it on and went away, and thought of the King's daughter, forgot the giants, and walked continually onward.
Over the meadows ever onward into the valley.
When he had ridden onward a little he heard a rustling in the bushes, and heard voices speaking together.
The names were painted up; and every, house above had its number down here also, and struck its roots under the macadamized quays of a broad canal, in which the muddy water flowed onward.
onward!
No death is there—life reigns yonder; we hear it on the notes that swell onward like the tones of the church organ, which seize us like sounds from the elf-hill, like the songs of Ossian, like the rushing swoop of the wandering spirits' wings.
So it was, and so it will be, in mankind' s mighty onward march in the consciousness of freedom.
Now a wave came rolling onward.
Take courage, and march onward!
The bottle knew not, it travelled onward and onward, and at last all this wandering about became wearisome; at all events it was not its usual occupation.
There, where the Rhine rolls onward like a great billow, and dissolves itself into snowflakes, where glistening clouds are ever changing as if here was the place of their creation, while the rainbow flutters about them like a many-colored ribbon, there did Knud think of the water-mill at Kjøge, with its rushing, foaming waters.
Now he stood once more, round and bright, above the clouds, moving slowly onward.
Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow, yet more slowly than usual, for they had their sister to carry.
ever brave, Drifting onward to thy grave.
