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
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
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
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 H. C. W. Bishop
I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
