rearwards
Example Sentences
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The habitant's customary frontage on the river was, accordingly, from about a thousand to two thousand feet, while his farm extended rearwards a distance of anywhere from under a half-mile to three miles.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
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
Troops from half-a-dozen regiments, scattered confusedly in all directions, moved rearwards side by side.
From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by A. Stanley Blicq
The scouting, a perpetual weakness in mediæval warfare, was imperfect; and even had it been better organised, to scout rearwards is not the same thing as scouting on an advance or on the flanks.
From Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
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
