A thick and continual stream of wounded flowed rearwards.
"London to Ladysmith via Pretoria"
Winston Spencer Churchill
I rushed forward, genelmen, in a sort of rearwards direction, through the door, an' round into the alley.
"The Hole in the Wall"
Arthur Morrison
During the night, leaving 1,500 men under Kilmaine to guard Verona, he marched for some space rearwards, as if he had meant to retreat on Mantua, which the failure of his recent assault rendered not unlikely.
"The History of Napoleon Buonaparte"
John Gibson Lockhart