The platform on which the house is built affords space for a large garden and shrubbery, extending rearward to the mountain-foot, from which they are separated by a high wall of stone.
Favoured by an occasional flash from the smouldering fires--seen at intervals through the trees--he had no difficulty in guiding himself in the right direction; and in due time he arrived at the rearward of the garden.
Abigail made no reply, but, as he dropped his hold of her arm, stepped towards the rearward door, and proceeded on the errand he had charged her with.
Then we went along the ramparts to the rearward gate; and it seemed as if Gymbert had somewhat on his mind, for he fell silent now and then, for no reason which I could fathom.
At last he glanced toward me, and went away with the man, passing the door of the church, and turning toward the rearward buildings.
She returned the letter to its envelope, and after looking up Gaston on the time-table fell into a heart-stirring reverie, with unseeing eyes fixed on the restful blackness of the night rushing rearward past the car windows.
Halkett pointed to the bonfire, receding like a fading star in the rearward distance.
The "Ville de Paris," with several of her consorts of the French centre, formed another group, with the whole of the rearward English division exchanging fire with them at long range.
But Petz and the wooden division did good service by keeping the rearward Italian ships fully occupied.
If the Spanish admiral shortened sail to collect his rearward stragglers, Howard followed his example, making no attempt even to close and cut off the nearest ships.
The French line was soon seen bearing down on the port tack, the rearward ships crowding sail to close up.
Antony was saved from capture only by the rearward ships of the fugitive squadron turning back to engage and delay the pursuers.
Medina-Sidonia shortened sail to enable the rearward ships to rejoin, and then held his course up Channel.
At the same time the ships on the Chinese left had most of their guns masked by their consorts, and could only fire at relatively long range with their bow guns at the rearward ships of the Japanese main squadron.
The Indomitable passed a cable to the crippled Lion and towed the latter home, the rest of the British fleet keeping to the rearward to be ready for possible resumption of fighting.
Von Boehn, therefore, was hurriedly detachedrearward to deal with the Belgian counteroffensive.
The British destroyer Meteor, which had been maintaining a perilous position between the battleships, then attempted to torpedo the Blücher, which had fallen far to the rearward to be abandoned by the rest of the German fleet.
In the strong light every countenance glowed like red-hot iron, every shoulder was suffused with crimson and shaded rearward into dingy, shapeless obscurity!
Trending at first rearward to the Peiwar village, the course followed was then to the proper right, up the rugged and steep Spingawai ravine.
His skirmishers drove back the forward stragglers, and then the main columns advancing at the double swept the disordered masses before them, and forced them rearward into their intrenched position in front of the Karez village.
Regaining the highroad we get a pretty rearward view of Delbury, the tranquil hamlet with its low grey steeple nestling in a wooded vale, while lofty hills rise away in the background.
Drawing clear of the town, we get a good rearward view of Bridgnorth, perched on its rocky eyrie; and then we pass beneath Pendlestone Rock, whose towering crags are draped in luxuriant foliage down to the water's edge.
The feeding and health of the fighting forces are dependent upon the rearward services, and so it may be argued that with the rearward services rests victory or defeat" (Marshal Haig).
A few hours' delay gives him time to recover his equilibrium, to organise a rearguard, and to gain several miles on his rearward march.
When a bold adventurer appears, she holds her heroine to the rearward of her affection.
The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Grand-Duke Franz, Mamma by his side, with the suitable functionaries; and to rearward Nurse and Baby, not so conspicuous till needed.
I have before mentioned (chapter xxiii) that in descending in autumn from the drier and more sunny rearward Sikkim valleys, the vegetation is found to be most backward in the lowest and dampest regions.
This rearward part of the mountain region is Tibet, where all the Sikkim, Nepal, and Bhotan rivers rise as small streams, increasing in size as they receive the drainage from the snowed parts of the ridges that bound them in their courses.
That the annual range of temperature diminishes with the elevation: this, too, is not the case in Sikkim, because of the barer surface and more cloudless skies of the rearward loftier regions.
Shallow valleys, glacier-bound at their upper extremities, descend from the still loftier rearward mountains; and in these occur lakes.
The stage-hands had withdrawn in a grieved manner somewhere into the huge rearward spaces of the old building.
We have still two little points to specify, or to bring up from therearward whither they are fallen, in regard to this Campaign.
Eugene, the Prussians having joined him, moves down towards Philipsburg and its cannonading; encamps close to rearward of the besieging French.
It is thought, had Rothenburg dashed forward, and sent word to the rearward to dash forward at their swiftest, the Austrian Army might have been cut in pieces here, and never have got together to try battle at all.
Service of Supplies--or the other great numbers of men employed in the rearward service of the United States Army.
Before turning into the walk adjoining, which led straight to his destination, he happened to cast a glance around, and his quick eye detected the figure of a man stealing behind one of the rearward trees.
If the attack must be abandoned, the rearwardmovement should continue with promptness until the troops reach a feature of the terrain that facilitates the task of checking and reorganizing them.
It has already been shown that the siege-artillery had been first employed against those fortified places which interrupted the rearward communications of the army.
In the centre, the trough of the Braye was wrested from General Jouffroy; he quitted St. Calais, not rearward on Le Mans, but southward to join General Barry.
The French position about Sedan was covered to rearward by the fortress.
The 12th Division was encamped at Fontenay and rearward as far as Chatenay.
The only event of importance during the course of October which remains to be mentioned was the action taken against the French forts lying rearward of the German armies.
It was not till the afternoon that its head reached the Narais at Gue de l'Aune and took up quarters there and rearward to St. Mars de Locquenay.
General Clinchant had already sent rearward the baggage and ammunition columns, the sick and worn-out men, through La Cluse under shelter of the forts of Joux and Neuv.
On the German side four Corps of the IIIrd Army were now within nine milesrearward of the Army of the Meuse.
The 11th Division was alarmed in its rearward quarters, and hurried forward to the support of the 12th.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rearward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
