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Frontwards

adverb
1.
At or to or toward the front.  Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward.  "Step forward" , "She practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"






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"Frontwards" Quotes from Famous Books



... looking at a man of huge stature, of the stiffest build, whose shoulders showed me their full breadth while he stood displaying frontwards the open of his hand in ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... was leader of the flight; for he was wounded slightly[565] on the tip of the shoulder with a spear, being always turned frontwards; but the spear of Polydamas grazed even to the bone, for he, coming close, had wounded him. Next Hector wounded Leitus, son of magnanimous Alectryon, on the hand at the wrist, and caused him to cease from battle. Then looking around him, he trembled, since he no longer hoped in his mind ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer

... child turn his head just like a grown person? Did you ever see anything as smart as that?) Did he like the red one best? So does Delia. We'll come over here, and then you won't get the sun in your precious eyes. Do you want me to push you frontwards, so you can see me? Just wait till we get across, and I will. Look out, Miss Honey! Take hold of your cousin's hand and run across together, now, ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various



Words linked to "Frontwards" :   dialect, frontward, forwards, forrard, idiom, forrad, forward, backward, accent



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