rearwards
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These words, in the case of one worthy, named David Butler, were always spoken in a high-pitched, drawling voice, and finished off with a kick to the rearwards of the right leg.
From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
The thing he sought to obliterate ran ahead of him with a smiling facility and spat rearwards a vaporous jet of ridicule.
From The Wonder by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
And as foes fell before him, Eric stepped one pace forward towards the door, and Skallagrim, who, back to back with him, held off those who pressed behind, took one step rearwards.
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
You see the tree-tops in the deep valley which divides the New Town from the Old, and rearwards, broken ground sprinkled with wood, imparting some touches of beauty to the western outskirts.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
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