Her body was slightly arched, head drawn backwards; a black creature clung to her back and chewed into her neck.

Hacking cuts were usually followed by a slicing action, where the sword is drawn backwards to maximize the cut.

The Attorney General Sir Edward Coke told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.

Starfish extend their tube feet in the intended direction of travel and grip the substrate by suction, after which the feet are drawn backwards.

The English girl was kneeling on the floor, her arms drawn backwards, her wrists bound together with cord.

The angle or corner of the mouth is drawn a little backwards, and at the same time a muscle which runs parallel to and near the nose draws up the outer part of the upper lip, and exposes the canine on this side of the face.

By creating micro structures which form specific contact angles with water, fuel cannot be drawn backwards.

On the other side, in a Lucite frame, was a snapshot of a gap-toothed boy; taped to it was a bright; sloppy child's drawing of a figure, over awkward lettering: S, O, N, N, Y. Both N's were drawn backwards.

Rory, still crushed, his face warmed by the flavoured breath of Arthur Dooley, was drawn backwards from the fray, inexorably.

Each of the condemned, said Coke, would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.