1 He took a step backward, his hand going to his face.
2 Scarlett clutched the seat, so surprised that she almost fell backwards.
3 She went down the stairs backwards, feeling a sickening dart of pain in her ribs as she landed.
4 He bent her body backward and his lips traveled down her throat to where the cameo fastened her basque.
5 She went up the stairs with a backward look of reproach which was noticed by neither Scarlett nor Rhett.
6 She flounced off without a word, without even a backward look, and he laughed softly and clicked to the horse.
7 The man crashed backwards to the floor, sprawling into the dining room with a violence that shook the furniture.
8 Melly looked despairingly backward but hammered her heels into the horse and, with a scattering of gravel, was off down the drive toward the pasture.
9 Her neck, rising from the black taffeta sheath of her basque, was creamy-skinned, rounded and slender, and it seemed always tilted slightly backward by the weight of her luxuriant hair in its net at the back of her head.
10 Throughout the South for fifty years there would be bitter-eyed women who looked backward, to dead times, to dead men, evoking memories that hurt and were futile, bearing poverty with bitter pride because they had those memories.
11 Had Ashley yielded, she could have gone away with him and left family and friends without a backward look but, even in her emptiness, she knew it would have torn her heart to leave these dear red hills and long washed gullies and gaunt black pines.