The North Vietnamese response to the incursion was to avoid contact with allied forces and, if possible, to fall back westward and regroup.

If the Barons and the Kingdoms are not going to join us, I'll have to fall far back westward to cover Canopus from that flank thrust.

Before them the light of the stark sun, falling westward, glittered on the wings and hull of the Japanese as if on some great silver beetle.

The dark half of the sky fell westward and pushed the light half down further into the west.

It was early night, but the slim moon was already falling westward.

But the sun fell westward and she got thirsty, and so she left the hawk to its day and turned and coursed down in giant lazy S's to Overlook, to nail her landing with a flap and a step, right on the green Kokopelli, just as if she had never left.

The sun was falling rapidly westward, and the wall studs cast prison-bar shadows across the floor.

Gentle slopes fall westward along the watershed, interrupted only by the slight rise of Gale Fell (1,699 ft), a trivial summit listed only by Birkett.