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look backward

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Verb1.look backward - look towards one's back; "don't look back while you walk"
look back
look - perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"


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Then all paused to look backward, but not a trace of the field of sunflowers remained.
The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
In the luxuriance of youth, and in the vigor of manhood, it is pleasing and instructive to look backward upon the helpless days of infancy; but in the continual and essential changes of a growing subject, the transactions of that early period would be soon obliterated from the memory but for some periodical call of attention to aid the silent records of the historian.
John Quincy Adams,"Orations" by Adams, John Quincy View in context
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