| 1. | Sikes leant forward in his chai. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | I think it is so forward of them. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 3. | The singing went forward fitfully. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Algernon goes forward to meet them. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | He stepped forward waving his arms. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | The prisoner came forward directly. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | I scrambled forward and looked over. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 8. | Arthur stepped forward hesitatingly. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | He leaned forward and hissed savagel. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 10. | Hareton, get forwards with the lass. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 11. | And then as we looked the white figure moved forwards again. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 12. | That our feet be forwards plante. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 13. | Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect huma. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 14. | In sequent toil all forwards do contend. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | "Est-ce que ma robe va bien" cried she, bounding forwards "et mes souliers et mes ba. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 16. | She took her off the table as she spoke, and shook her backwards and forwards with all her might. - from Through the Looking-Glass by Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll |
| 17. | "Kee-hee Kee-hee" yelled Daggoo, straining forwards and backwards on his seat, like a pacing tiger in his cage. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 18. | My eyes were those of an exile turned backwards upon the receding shore, and not forwards with hope upon the ocean. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |