rearwards
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
And as foes fell before him, Eric stepped one pace forward towards the door, and Skallagrim, who, back to back with him, held off those who pressed behind, took one step rearwards.
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
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
