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look backward

v. look towards one's back; "don't look back while you walk" [syn: look back]

Usage examples of "look backward".

She would never permit me even that escape, for then I could not summon up the light and so open the window for her to look backward into that land from which she came.

Garric motioned the other sedan chair to the side of his, then risked a look backward.

And in the noise and flash of their own gunfire, it never occurred to the brigade to look backward.

With a dark look backward, Kardann slipped away, stiffening and nodding as Cordell called after him.

A long, sinuous neck allowed the creature to look backward past an equally long tail as a young voice shouted from behind, Fantus!

Anthony darted a look backward and suddenly shoved Peter to one side.

But in the absence of her own children she had started to look backward and wonder at the fate of a different generation.

Lorla spared a sad look backward as the hidden gate drew slowly closed.

But if you really know your past, if you look backward and see where you've been, perhaps there'll be reason once more.

She stole one look backward when she stopped just inside the tower, then she turned her attention to Leto's bulk waiting on the cart almost at the center of the aerie.