rearwards

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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 Belloc, Hilaire

I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a moving mass.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

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)

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

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.