for'ards

Knocking them balls back'ards and for'ards used to be called ` fives 'when I were a boy, but they calls it ` tens' now; I suppose 'cos they does everything in these days twice as fast as they used to do.

Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

Person turn de wheel wid de hand and walk back'ards and for'ards, drawing out de thread.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

I wuz worried ter death cause I had ter run backards and for'ards and it wuz a strain on me.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

It's a long road, I know, when fo'k luk for'ards; but it's soon getten o'er, and when thaa looks back'ards it's nobbud short.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

I wuz worried ter death cause I had ter run backards and for'ards and it wuz a strain on me.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

They kin spell a houn 'dog so thet he back-tracks' stid of trailin 'for'ards.

A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

How many evenin's I've seen her set by it, rockin 'back'ards an' for'ards, -- an 'her needle goin' in an 'out!

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

One day, she set rockin 'back'ards an' for'ards in

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

It was kind of quiet for a minute, but them that couldn't see him kep 'pushin' for'ards and callin 'out:' What d'you see?

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

Are you tired of your life, sir, that you go a-trying to provoke three great neck-or-nothing chaps, that could keep on running over us, back'ards and for'ards, till we was dead, and then take our bodies up behind 'em, and drown us ten miles off? '

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892