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
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
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
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
