Citations:backward


 * 1906, The Studio, page 310:
 * But, as I have said, he lost little time over this kind of thing, and soon left to others such living backward in the past. He tried to paint anything and everything that interested him, either in drawing, movement, or colour: mountains, lakes, lagoons, ...
 * 1909, Prentice Mulford, Selections from "Your Forces and how to Use Them"., page 14:
 * It was not merely the evil of living backward in that particular locality that I came to see clearly. I saw also for the first time, where I had unconsciously been living in the past, and living backward in numberless ways and thereby unconsciously ...


 * 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 21,
 * Everybody says I'm the smartest guy in Ithaca High, even people who don't like me. But I'm not so smart. I guess I'm just as backward as anybody in a lot of things—important things, too.