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Sentences ending with backs

The southwest wind, with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs. [9]
Also here and there all over their backs. [5]
Then they have their musket and accoutrements, and the "forty rounds" at their backs. [9]
Men, young and old, were slashing themselves with vehement scourgings on their backs. [10]
These men were of a class who run for cover before a battle begins, and can never be kept in the fighting-line except with the bayonet in the small of their backs. [11]
They didn't have no backs. [5]
There is no need of Mrs. Felix Lorraine's reflection in the mirror, to tell us that she is plotting evil for us behind our backs. [6]
Many wore their hair falling in long locks down their backs. [10]
At last, the ebb of tide being almost spent, the waves began to fall, the wind shifted a little to the northward, and a piercing cold instantly froze our drenched clothes on our backs. [11]
Meantime, the talk droned on, dim figures moved about in the dull light, peace and tranquility reigned, the travelers resigned themselves to the pleasant reposefulness and comfort of the situation, unconscious of the death-angels standing motionless at their backs. [5]

Short sentences using backs

All backs were on us. [11]
Their backs were on me. [11]

More example sentences with the word backs in them

They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
A few priests whom he passed turned their backs upon him, others looked down at their dinners, eating noisily, and making as if they did not see him. [10]
Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
We started out, when we turned our backs on the Old World, with the declaration that all men are free, and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of an agreeable climate. [4]
His noble horses were richly caparisoned; purple housings, embroidered with turquoise beads, covered their backs and necks, and a crown-shaped ornament was fixed on their heads, from which fluttered a bunch of white ostrich-feathers. [10]
Soon their backs were bared, their faces were turned to the wall, and, as Gabord with harsh voice counted, the lashes were mercilessly laid on. [11]
Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. [5]
Stuffs, garments, tapestries, weapons hung over the backs of the chairs, or lay on chests, tables and the stone-floor. [10]
Before the door was a sleigh of a pattern new to him, with a seat high above the backs of two long-bodied, deep-chested horses, their heads held with difficulty by a little footman with his arms above him. [9]
As we climbed up and stepped out on this eminence, the Gold Hill lights dropped out of sight at our backs, and the night closed down gloomy and dismal. [5]
Venerable mud-turtles crawled up and roosted upon the old logs in the stream, their backs glistening in the sun, the first inhabitants of the metropolis to begin the active business of the day. [5]
I never rightly understood until just now,--and that because I was always looking up, while you'd be looking down, and seeing nothing but the bent backs of them. [9]
Its purpose is to keep out too recent blood, which would bring into contempt these offices, and men of lofty lineage would turn their backs and scorn to take them. [5]
The situation appealed to Jethro, especially as he glanced at the backs of the two gentlemen facing the desk. [9]
These backs seemed to him full of expression. [9]
He was supposed to cure their diseases by trampling upon their breasts or backs or standing on the back of their necks. [5]
Pressed by the throng against the high backs of the chairs, the orators spoke one after another and sometimes two together. [2]
Such were Austen's thoughts as he drove to Fairview that September afternoon when the leaves were turning their white backs to the northwest breeze. [9]
The messengers for this purpose reported that the Dutchmen, though not detained by Powhatan, would not come, and the Indians said they could not bring them on their backs fifty miles through the woods. [4]
So soon as they reached Stephanus' cave, both turned their backs on Paulus with conspicuously marked intention; nay the acolyte signed his brow with the cross, as if he thought it necessary to protect himself against evil influences. [10]
When they turned their backs upon a quelled insurrection, there was a gap that not even French buoyancy could fill. [11]
The apprehension of the untried is apt to be sharp at such moments, and I looked for them to turn their backs upon me for an impertinent provincial. [9]
Tushin appeared at the threshold and made his way timidly from behind the backs of the generals. [2]
It backs into the shafts like a lamb. [6]
If one of the righteous fell away, all the others forthwith turned their backs on him; and when the penitent desired to return to the fold, the immaculate repelled or avoided him. [10]
I noticed that the names of the owners, and sometimes their coats-of-arms, were carved or painted on the backs of the seats, as if the pews were not put up at yearly auction. [4]
As soon as the ladies, who accompanied them, had turned their backs, Bent-Anat grasped her brother's hand with unaccustomed warmth, and said: "Avoid all imprudence; but your demand is just, and I will help you with all my heart. [10]
I sat at the head of the table, and could see the right-hand wall; the others had their backs to it. [5]
The Greeks, like the Egyptians, had chairs with backs and arms. [10]
The buttons on the backs of these came high up between the shoulders, and the tails did not reach below the waistband. [4]
I have seen the backs of all the other horses, and found most of them covered with dreadful saddle-boils which I know have not been washed or doctored for years. [5]
Can I wish that those rascals had put my eyes out, had crippled my limbs, had thrashed me to a scare-crow, to the end that the maids should turn their backs on me? [10]
The law backs that old Judge Thatcher up and helps him to keep me out o' my property. [5]
Our knapsacks were strapped upon our backs, but they had a sturdy youth along to carry theirs for them. [5]
Going into a stable he saw four dead soldiers, and three desperately wounded, placed with their backs against the wall. [3]
We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. [5]
The artist had shrewdly heightened the delusion by painting dust on the creatures' backs, as if it had fallen there naturally and properly. [5]
For a few seconds we saw our unfortunate companions sliding downward on their backs, and spreading out their hands, endeavoring to save themselves. [5]
Lise, her waist removed, was seated in a rocking chair at the window overlooking the littered yards and the backs of the tenements on Rutger Street. [9]
A dozen still remained on the ground when we reached there, huddled together about the scaffold with their backs to the bitter wind. [5]
As the Interviewer ran his eye over them, he found that he could make very little out of what their backs taught him. [6]
The caricaturists made pictures of detectives scanning the country with spy-glasses, while the elephant, at their backs, stole apples out of their pockets. [5]
There is a picture extant of a rich old man who rides on a seat supported on the backs of two donkeys. [10]
If there were people who thought otherwise, I never heard that they turned their backs on him, or failed in that civility which he never laid aside in his intercourse with others. [4]
Some of the paper-covered books, some of the cloth-covered ones, had names which he knew; but those on the backs of many of the others were strange to his eyes. [6]
We sat with our backs to the precipice, because what little wind there was came from that quarter. [5]
Git up on one another's backs and let me touch 'em. [5]
Waterproofs are put on, umbrellas spread, backs turned to the wind; and we look like a group of explorers under adverse circumstances, "silent on a peak in Darien," the donkeys especially downcast and dejected. [4]
Some rocked quietly on the gleaming waves, others boldly swung themselves on the backs of the bearded Tritons, and merrily urged them through the flood. [10]
Mainly we laid on our backs and talked; we didn't want to go to sleep. [5]
The landlord tossed on a bench several garments spread over the backs of two chairs to dry, and hung in their place the dripping cloaks of the baron and his son. [10]
So we got offended at all foreigners and turned our backs upon them and came home. [5]
Its pathos was of the past, and after she had finished, as we fled into the open air, we were conscious of having turned our backs irrevocably yet determinedly upon an era whose life and convictions the music of the composer so beautifully expressed. [9]
They killed eleven of the Indians, but their comrades lugged them away on their backs and buried them in the woods with a great noise. [4]
It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed--only a little kind of a low chuckle. [5]
We'll be rid of regrets for a life upon which we have turned our backs forever. [9]
Presently a group of men began a ceremony or ritual, before which the spectators now and again covered their eyes, or bent their heads low, or turned their backs, and raised their hands in a sort of ascription. [11]
We have all, no doubt, drawn our line between what is right and what is wrong, but I have often wondered how many of us with the world's indorsement across our backs trespass as little on the other side of the line as he. [9]
Instead of the moving horses and hussars' backs, he saw nothing before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. [2]
All this time Miss Susan Posey was catching the little books by the small of their backs, pulling them out, opening them, and clapping them together, 'p-'p-'p! [6]
The chairs and lounges were marquetry,--satin-wood and mahogany,--with seats and backs of blue brocade. [9]
The old books look out from the shelves, and I seem to read on their backs something asides their titles,--a kind of solemn greeting. [6]
Folks had read letters laid ag'in' the pits o' their stomachs, 'n' why should n't they see out o' the backs o' their heads? [6]
There were many ladies all around, but they turned their backs, or looked another way, or at the two young men (not unfavourably at them), and left her to herself. [12]
The prisoners entered it through a massive archway of masonry, and were placed in file, standing, with their backs against the wall. [5]
There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews. [9]
When they came in, "t'other" was talking in a low voice; they sat down on the ground, facing the door, with their backs to the wall, and the speaker continued his remarks. [5]
The waves dashed in ruby foam at our feet, and even the tall, frowning pines at our backs were softened; the sting was gone out of the keen night wind from the north. [9]
The foreman had his face to us; the backs of the other men were on us. [11]
The pews had high backs, with narrow, uncushioned seats. [4]
It is often hard to us old men to heave stones and bend our stiff backs for so long together, but we are nearer than you younger ones to the happy future. [10]
The throne itself had the shape of a buckler, guarded by two lions, which rested on each side of it and formed the arms, and supported on the backs of four Asiatic captives who crouched beneath its weight. [10]
It does one good to hear that royal backs have room for the cudgel too. [10]
The ground was frozen, and it froze our backs while we slept; the wind swept across our faces and froze our noses. [5]
She pulls away from him and backs toward the doorway, upper right. [9]
It doesn't hurt, for when they get their backs up it only makes more trouble. [9]
It was enough for them to be able to make others happy under their roof; and there was never any lack of visitors, just because those who were weary of bending their backs at the Byzantine Court, found this unceremonious circle particularly restful. [10]
I was suddenly filled with the fever of composing arguments to change a decision that appeared to me to be the result of a monstrous caprice and delusion; writing them out, as they occurred to me, in snatches on the backs of envelopes--her envelopes. [9]
Then a little faint breeze struck us, and then it come harder, and grains of sand begun to sift against our faces and sting like fire, and Tom sung out: "It's a sand-storm--turn your backs to it! [5]
Last came the Empress of Germany and the Grand Duchess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-bowing groups of servants and disappeared in the hotel, exhibiting to us only the backs of their heads, and then the show was over. [5]
So the Marchioness dried her eyes with the backs of her hands, and, stealing softly up the steps, peeped in through the glass door. [12]
I know he does behind our backs. [8]
Yet that four days was time enough for a live man to do a "flurry of work," and he was fit enough to walk up their backs yet with hobnailed boots, as they said in Kerry when a man was out for war. [11]
There were thirty-six corpses of adults in sight, stretched on their backs on slightly slanted boards, in three long rows--all of them with wax-white, rigid faces, and all of them wrapped in white shrouds. [5]
He couldn't climb chimblies no more, and he hadn't no more backs to break. [5]
Presently, as the car moved swiftly along the rails, two men crossing the street caught sight of the backs of Barrow and Tracy, and both exclaimed at once, "There he is! [5]
The plain near by was flecked with the brown backs of feeding buffalo, but we dared not stop, and pressed on to find a camp in the forest. [9]
He did not, but began to finger some printed slips of paper which had indorsements on their backs. [9]
How many backs bowed low, how softly bombastic, high-sounding words were murmured! [10]
It was a beautiful sight to see the eight young fellows in their close-fitting suits, their brown muscular arms bare, bending their backs for the stroke and recovering, as if they were parts of a single machine. [6]
They must often bear on their backs the little dog-tents, under which, put up by their own labor, they crawl to sleep, wrapped in a blanket they have carried all day, perhaps waist deep in water. [9]
But butterflies would be particularly liable to be attacked by their enemies when at rest; and most kinds whilst resting raise their wings vertically over their backs, so that the lower surface alone is exposed to view. [1]
The moment their backs were turned, little Jacob thawed, and resumed his crying from the point where Quilp had frozen him. [12]
They know the backs of books, their title-pages, their popularity or want of it, the class of readers who call for particular works, the value of different editions, and a good deal besides. [6]
The seats and backs are thickly padded and cushioned and are very comfortable; you can smoke if you wish; there are no bothersome peddlers; you are saved the infliction of a multitude of disagreeable fellow passengers. [5]
They nurse one ash-cat at a time, and the others scratch their backs against the door-post and are happy. [5]
The journeymen and apprentices wore long daggers in the daytime at their backs or sides. [4]
They have axes and ploughs in their hands, and seed-bags on their backs. [10]
We talked along, and he got out a little hand-bag and begun to open it, and told us to turn our backs. [5]
Idle and shiftless and evil ye are, while the earth cries out to give you of its plenty, a great harvest from a little seed, if ye will but dig and plant, and plough and sow and reap, and lend your backs to toil. [11]

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