As he washed he saw with half a Retroverted eye the round table spread with china and glass and silver.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
Gemmule-spicules very similar, but usually a little stouter and often blunt at the ends; their spines rather longer than those on the flesh-spicules, usually more numerous near the ends than in the middle of the spicule, slightly Retroverted, those at the extreme tips often so arranged as to suggest a rudimentary rotule.
"Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa"
Nelson Annandale
Now and then its extent flashed upon me, but the glimpse was lost to my Retroverted vision almost as soon as won.
"Literature and Life"
William Dean Howells