She reached backward with her shackled hands and gripped the handle of the knife.

He reached backward and pulled a thin oversized volume from the bottom shelf.

He tried to reach backward for the butt of his own gun.

They stared at each other over his hand for an impossible instant, then she reached backward and did something to the door so that it opened.

As he charts the family's progress in America he also reaches backward, uncovering scraps of his parents' lives before and during the war.

This man paused at the edge of the stage and reached backward, as if through the tent someone were jerking viciously.

"It is," Jane says, reaching backward with one hand.

Now, Markham mused, at its center, a few men remained, trying to reach backward, swimmers against the stream.

Unmann pushed her under again, and she reached backward, scratching.

He reached backward with his left hand and got hold of my hair.