rearwards
Example Sentences
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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
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
Hardly waiting, however, for his reply, the girl had passed her hand underneath the soldier's arm and led him rearwards as the train slowly rounded the long curve to the bridge embankment.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
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
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
