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Sentences starting with back

Back of the town rise highlands that are clothed in woodland loveliness, and over the way is that noble mountain, Wellington, a stately bulk, a most majestic pile. [5]
Back to life, to the society of men of my own stamp, to reap the praise earned by my own creations, and to the only divine maiden among mortals--to Daphne! [10]
Back in Hartford, sweating and suffering through sleepless nights, he wrote Howells his anguish. [5]
Back against the stream of fugitives to the lepers and torch-bearers he hastened, shouting to each division, "Saved! [10]
Back again it stole to the window--then turned its head towards her. [12]
Back to the silent office where the shelves mocked them. [9]
Back of the schoolhouse rose a round hill, upon which, tradition said, had stood in colonial times a block-house, built by the settlers for defense against the Indians. [4]
Back to your school! [10]
Back River, Bush River, Gunpowder Creek,--lives there the man with soul so dead that his memory has cerements to wrap up these senseless names in the same envelopes with their meaningless localities? [6]
Back to Vicksburg paddled the fleet and transports. [9]

Sentences ending with back

The soldiers thrust Yusef back. [11]
I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
He will tell you to this day how Mr. Catherwood's carriage was pocketed by drays and bales, and how Mrs. James's horses were seized by the bridles and turned back. [9]
She said, "Will you go to him and tell him that this meddlesome minx, here, had no business to say anything about me to him, and you take it all back? [8]
And when are you coming back? [9]
Yes, I'll take you back. [13]
I called to you as you were leaving, but you didn't turn back. [11]
I am glad you are back. [11]
I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. [7]
I have not yet got rid of the pains in my chest and back. [14]

Short sentences using back

A while back, you remember. [5]
It's the only way back. [11]
Go back to Viking. [11]
But always she turned back. [9]
The witnesses discreetly turned back. [4]
But presently she turned back. [11]
She came back towards me. [11]
Give it back to Prexaspes. [10]
Give it back to me. [5]
His back is to me. [11]

Sentences containing back two or more times

As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
Take back your words, mother, take back your words, or--" Katuti turned paler and paler, and said soothingly: "The words may sound hard, but he has broken faith with you, and openly dishonored you. [10]
And it's back with the ring of the chain and the spur, And it's back with the sun on the hill and the moor, And it's back is the thought sets my pulses astir,-- But I'll never go back to Farcalladen more! [11]
Breakfast time approached while I mused these musings and called these ancient happenings back to mind; so I got me back into the present and went down the hill. [5]
There are others which cause us to wish the scenes back again, with a kind of hunger; and yet they won't or can't come back. [11]
But if he went back it was also clear that he must go back with intentions more explicit than before, and now he had to ask himself just how much or how little he had meant by going there. [8]
In what distress we all seemed to be then, yet I would give much to bring back that time... but there's no bringing it back. [2]
My back hair was mingling innocently with the back hair of a couple of ladies. [5]
His ill-humor, however, was concentrated on one spot; that was Mr. Meigs's back; he thought he had never seen a more disagreeable back, a more conceited back. [4]

More example sentences with the word back in them

Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an' take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o' thim's in the commysariat, Coolin--shame for ye! [11]
You've got coin, you've got sense, you're a bit distinguished-looking, and I'll back your heart against a thousand bishops. [11]
Instantly the fickle youth's dreams forsook the magic eye-water and flew back to the Tennessee Land. [5]
You can forgive your wife, and take her back, or you can say to both, Go! [11]
If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
Go back to your rooms, Princess. [2]
Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
Come back to your own people; be a true daughter of the Ry of Rys; live with your Romany chal. [11]
Go back to your mother directly. [10]
You would bring your mother back home again. [10]
Then tell me your grief to-day too; it will do you good, it will bring back peace to your mind. [10]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
May we use your back parlour? [11]
The hole in your back has closed. [13]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
This is Thursday; you'll be back here Saturday afternoon. [5]
I didn't know you'd got back from Washington. [9]
Illness came; then you, who have nursed me back to life. [11]
Ack, what are you, to turn your back on me? [11]
Get out, d-n you, all of you, and don't come back until you've got some notion of what you're a-goin' to do. [9]
In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
And I believe you will come back, if it is in human power to do so. [11]
Now, I'll tell you what, I'm going to have another moose to take back to Marigold Lake. [11]
I will tell you what that thing was that come back into my memory. [5]
I beg of you to push back the bolt at once. [10]
It must interest you to come back, and see the changes in our Western civilization. [9]
I am sending you this line to welcome you, and to tell you that I have arranged with the furniture people to take any or all things back that you do not like, and exchange them. [9]
And I'll give you some advice, Sawlsberry; when you come back for the particulars, fetch a basket to carry what is left of yourself home in. [5]
Sometimes I think you ought to go back to the Arcadia you came from. [9]
I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
And I give you my honour, mon cher Courtenay, that I lost no time in getting back to Arlington Street, and called Dorothy down to tell her. [9]
I don't believe you mean to try to astonish us when you come back to spend your summers here. [6]
Take back what you have said, or we must deliver you up to punishment. [5]
If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
I heartily thank you for the good wishes you send me to open the year, and I say them back again to you. [6]
But what are you doing, back in Foxon Falls? [9]
But you have you been back to Silliston since I saw you? [9]
Glad to see you back in Foxon Falls, Jonathan. [9]
Glad to see you back at the post of dooty. [6]
And even now you are not satisfied when I come back to tell you that I have money enough to snap my fingers at half these people you know. [9]
I go to York to-morrow, to be back this day fortnight. [9]
Boun' to git yo' money back a hund'd times, de preacher says! [5]
And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
All was not yet lost; and he breathed more freely as he went back to the house where duty, and his anxiety for his father, required his presence. [10]
She turned away, yet looked back once more--she felt tragedy around her. [11]
Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
And now that ye're getting him back, ma'am, ye might think with a little more charity of her that belongs to me--the only one I'd have left. [9]
How'll yer face yer mother if yer turn yer back on the inimy of yer counthry? [11]
Could this awkward, yellow man with his hands behind his back be he whom he had worshipped? [9]
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
And yet I yearned to go back, and looked forward eagerly to the time when I should have stored enough in my head to gain admission to the bar. [9]
For many a year, you know as well as I do, ships have been coming from France to Ireland with the very best wines and liquors, and taking back the very best wool- -smuggled, of course. [11]
Stand back thar, ye critters," he shouted, brandishing his rifle in their faces. [9]
In all she wrote she kept but two things back, her grandfather's death--and one other. [11]
They have been written with reverence, and the reading of the proofs has brought back to me vividly the long winters in which I pondered over the matter they contain, and wrote and rewrote the chapters. [9]
The orator had written his speech all out, and had it in his hand, though he held it back of him out of sight. [5]
Mr. Daly was writing and had his back to me. [5]
Does he still write on his back? [10]
Moreover, shooting from Wrangle's back was shooting from a thunderbolt. [13]
Finally Venters concluded Wrangle had grazed far enough, and, taking his lasso, he went to fetch him back. [13]
Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
I said I wouldn't take any money, and gave it back to him. [9]
A dishonest man wouldn't pay me back, security or no security. [11]
I judged he wouldn't come back that night. [5]
Occasionally an Arab would throw back his head and cry: "Allahu Akbar! [11]
And these people would shortly understand, if they did not now understand, that Hugh had come back voluntarily and from a sense of duty to assume the burdens and responsibilities that so many of his generation and class had shirked. [9]
Now the king would ride back alone. [11]
This presented (or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. [7]
Sometimes this log would lodge, and stay right across our nose, and back the Mississippi up before it; we would have to do a little craw-fishing, then, to get away from the obstruction. [5]
Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
Some swooned and would have drowned had they not been dragged across the canoe and chafed back to consciousness. [9]
But Mr. Crewe would have been interested if he could have heard Mr. Flint's first remark to the senator after the door was closed on his back. [9]
And sometimes he would go to the corner table, where the four littlest sat, and fetch one back to perch on his knee and pull at his white, military mustache. [9]
At night he would go out for booty and always brought back French clothing and weapons, and when told to would bring in French captives also. [2]
He said he would follow it up with a list of the previous plays of the kind, and in his innocence would have carried them back to the Flood. [5]
Nobody, I suppose, would doubt this story if the moose, quaffing deep draughts of red wine from silver tankards, and then throwing themselves back upon divans, and lazily puffing the fragrant Havana. [4]
Perhaps the visions would come back, perhaps my head would come off. [9]
He said he would come back to me --ah, the brave comrade! [11]
If only Philostratus would come back to him! [10]
Necessity, he thought, would bring him back to where he had a life free from anxiety awaiting him. [10]
I said I would be ready when he got back. [5]
Chateaux and lands would be hers again, and she would go back again to that brilliant life among the great to which she was born, for which nature had fitted her. [9]
And perhaps it would be best if the other never came back. [11]
I thought, it would amuse her, too, when I went back at night, if I told her what she had been doing. [11]
We watched them working their way over the ridges, and finally saw them coming back with one of the Vincennes sportsmen. [9]
For hours they worked with snow upon the frozen limbs to bring back life and consciousness. [11]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
While the night wore on he rode as slowly back to the town as he had galloped from it like a centaur with a captive. [11]
They whisper flattering words in my ear; they curse me when my back is turned. [10]
In particular, the words "I will come back to dinner," evidently displeased both reader and audience. [2]
Sherman sent back word to keep the man until he could see him in person. [9]
She dropped a word or two of grief over the precious time that must be lost, then began at once to issue commands for the march back. [5]
Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
They drew the wood-boat aft, and they and the captain fought back the frantic herd of frightened immigrants till the wounded could be brought there and placed in safety first. [5]
I astonished Mr. Wood; and sometimes he would tilt back his chair, take off his spectacles and pull his beard. [9]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]

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