go backward

He it was who had declared that they had never learned to go backward and that they must be Go Ahead Boys to the end.

When their canoe is near the shore, Manikawan will let it go backward very slowly to the place where the bank slopes.

So you see he can go backward and forward—as he is obliged to do constantly in the day's work—without mussing it up at all.

For here, as everywhere else, to attempt to go backward to a plane of life once passed is to surely degenerate.

He did not like to go forward; and it was a mean thing to go backward, rendering no help, when help seemed wanted so extremely.