Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Back
Back … with the instinct of homing pigeons.
—Mary Austin
Backward as the wind sweeps flame.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Backward, like a witch’s prayers.
—Earl of Dorset
Like the pace of a crab, backward.
—Robert Greene
Backward like the long wash of a wave.
—Maurice Hewlett
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Like a rope-maker’s were his ways, for still one line upon another he spun, and, like his hempen brother, kept going backwards all his days.
—Horace Smith
Slideth back as a backsliding heifer.
—Old Testament