rearwards
Example Sentences
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Many schemes were prepared by which we were to co-operate, so that after the Turks had been started off rearwards by General Aylmer, we might hasten their departure.
From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.
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 White, Walter
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 Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.
From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.
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 Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)
