He did not know how long he had been walking uneasily backwards and forwards, but Rosamond felt that it was long, and wished that he would sit down.
He seized it now and swept it backwards and forwards in as large an area as he could, apparently to ban these ugly spectres, crying in a hoarse sort of screech— "Back, back, Mrs.
The children sat in the parlour downstairs and heard the sound of the Doctor's boots going backwards and forwards over the bedroom floor.
What do you call a line of rabbits walking backwards?
Santa walking backwards.
" Stroeve hid his face in his hands and swayed backwards and forwards, groaning.
The pendulum swings backwards and forwards.
The Mole fell backwards on the snow from sheer surprise and delight.
Rearing, plunging, backing steadily, in spite of all the Mole's efforts at his head, and all the Mole's lively language directed at his better feelings, he drove the cart backwards towards the deep ditch at the side of the road.
He jumped up and seized the sculls, so suddenly, that the Rat, who was gazing out over the water and saying more poetry-things to himself, was taken by surprise and fell backwards off his seat with his legs in the air for the second time, while the triumphant Mole took his place and grabbed the sculls with entire confidence.
It was not three months ago since, wild with joyful expectation, she had there run backwards and forwards some ten times a day, with an heart light, gay, and independent; looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed, and free from the apprehension of evil as from the knowledge of it.
There was a want of dignity about restlessness, about trotting backwards and forwards.
The sea was the fourth side, lazily washing backwards and forwards on pebbles.
Here is Bill Jukes, every inch of him tattooed, the same Bill Jukes who got six dozen on the Walrus from Flint before he would drop the bag of moidores; and Cookson, said to be Black Murphy's brother (but this was never proved), and Gentleman Starkey, once an usher in a public school and still dainty in his ways of killing; and Skylights (Morgan's Skylights); and the Irish bo'sun Smee, an oddly genial man who stabbed, so to speak, without offence, and was the only Non-conformist in Hook's crew;
But proGREss is uneven, and in some cases slipping backwards.
Habit 2: They work backwards from the future.
Habit 2: They work backwards from the future.
After flicking on a switch, the table slowly tilted backwards until his head was fitted into the tank.
Vicky Seelall recommends playing a mindless game, such as counting backwards from 100 in multiples of three.
Habit 2: They work backwards from the future.