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Meanings of swinging backwards in English

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Usage of swinging backwards in English
1
The rain-wet chair was swinging backwards and forwards, high and steady, all by itself.
The Pariah
2
There the wise bird sits free from danger, swinging backwards and forwards in the breeze.
Old Jack
3
Everything is like a door swinging backwards and forwards.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
4
The footage showed Mr Stevens sitting on the floor, arms around his torso and swinging backwards and forwards.
Radio NZ
5
The song had a soft monotony, swinging backwards and forwards to the waving axe like the pendulum of a clock.
Parables of a Province
6
I wanted to stop to get my breath, but the big trees were swinging backwards and forwards with a deafening noise.
Marie Claire
7
They kept frisking about, now climbing up the sipos, now throwing themselves down, hanging by their tails, and swinging backwards and forwards.
On the Banks of the Amazon
8
But I knew that the room couldn't be swinging backwards and forwards, so it must have been something which was happening inside my head.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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