frontwise

Jack walked with a sort of limp, and occasionally one of the joints of his legs would turn backward, instead of frontwise, almost causing him to tumble.

The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman ... a Sequel to the Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank 1904

Jack walked with a sort of limp, and occasionally one of the joints of his legs would turn backward, instead of frontwise, almost causing him to tumble.

The Marvelous Land of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1904

The figure has, however, all the Egyptian conventionalities grossly exaggerated, the body being shown frontwise to the waist, while the legs and feet are placed sidewise, the breadth of the shoulders and the length of the arms being ludicrously out of proportion.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

The heads are given in profile, but the eyes are given as if seen frontwise.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

The eyes are set, as in the Egyptian paintings, frontwise in the profile face; and the feet, as usual, are placed the one precisely in advance of the other.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

As in Egyptian paintings, their bodies, from the waist upward, are shown frontwise, and their legs and faces in profile.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

The head and face are shown in profile, and the shoulders are set squarely frontwise.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

But for the old false drawing of the frontwise eye in the profile face, the features are naturally given.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

And swiving frontwise in our day Is all abandoned and decried; "

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879