left-backward

Updated: May 15, 2025

And he shoved round his chair lazily, with a left-backward wheel, so as to command the window, for he liked to see the girls dance, the little rogues! with his claret and his French rappee at his elbow; and he did not hear General Chattesworth, who was talking of the new comedy called the 'Clandestine Marriage, and how 'the prologue touches genteelly on the loss of three late geniuses Hogarth, Quin, and Cibber and the epilogue is the picture of a polite company; for the tambourine and the fiddles were going merrily, and the lasses and lads in motion.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard