rearwards
Example Sentences
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I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
Previously they were painted, and had a gummy, sticky influence rearwards upon peoples clothes.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
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
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
