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1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Spirituall & Heauenlie Exercises vi. 151 Looking forwards, seeing so euerlasting an age of eternity.

1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 8 An account of all the general changes of the Natural World, as far as either Sacred History looks backwards, or Sacred Prophecy looks forwards.

1717 Censor (ed. 2) 191 When I look forwards, and anticipate in Thought the Prospect of those burning Months.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xx. 240 To induce us to look forwards with impatience to the publication of such of his works, as have lately been discovered.

1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize viii. 177 He sat there, looking backwards into his life and finding no comfort there; and then looking forwards, seeing a gleam of saving hope.

2007 C. E. Dascălu Imaginary Homelands Writers in Exile Introd. 30 It is quite clear that the medium of writing is one that is always looking forwards, and is, therefore, never complete.

1637 P. Heylyn Antidotum Lincolniense ii. viii. 120 Your Noverint Vniversi being sealed and delivered, wee should look forwards to the rest of your observations.

a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 347 Looking forwards on eternity, and then looking back to our days, so vainly wasted and worn out to no purpose.

1727 J. E. tr. D. de Saavadra Fajardo Respublica Literaria 91 The Soul..looking forwards into Futurity, and acquiring a kind of Prescience of Things to come.

1819 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 266 The British Museum must look forwards for many accessions.

1822 W. Whewell Let. 17 July in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 47 You have time plenty to look forwards to the commencement of your illuminatory course in October.

1981 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 27 123 It was characteristic of Brian to look forwards into the future rather than back on his past achievements for the subject of his Leeuwenhoek Lecture.

2000 N. Griffiths Grits (2001) 271 A feel grand after av yakked an am lookin forwards ter more beer an the rester me vindaloo, so a head back down to the table.