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Sentences starting with behind

Behind them again, with head shaking from one side to the other, travelled Macavoy; and they all marched away towards the Fort. [11]
Behind the rocks which hemmed in the plateau on which Paulus met her, at last, when she was quite exhausted, she found a shady resting-place. [10]
Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
Behind the moss-hut, wherein I had found my Herdegen with the dancing hussy, the Swabian Junker and Ritter Franz had fought, without any heed of the law and order of such combat--fought for life or death, and for my sake. [10]
Behind that door were two people who despised his memory, who conspired to forget his very name. [11]
Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes and artillerymen's bonfires. [2]
Behind the store were moored the barges that floated down on the swift current to the Ohio, carrying goods to even remoter settlements in the western wilderness. [9]
Behind the house were clumps of lilacs with a century's growth upon them, and looking more like trees than like shrubs. [6]
Behind The Man was The Stone, which was not more motionless nor more full of age than this its comrade. [11]
Behind that door was the future: so he opened it fearfully, with an impulse to throw his arm above his head. [9]

Sentences ending with behind

But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
Many birds, not yet old enough for a prolonged flight, are likewise deserted and left behind. [1]
In turning, the yacht came round on the seaward side of the steamer, but far behind. [4]
He could have written this: The cloud-cap'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. [5]
And with that womanly gesture which has been the same through the ages she put up her hand; deftly tucking in the stray wisp behind. [9]
Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
It isn't that which makes her sad and haggard; it is that we are leaving Ireland behind. [11]
It was at what the soldiers called the Stay Awhile Hospital that he came in living touch again with the life he had left behind. [11]
I knew they were after us, though I saw them but once on the crest of a Divide about three miles behind. [11]

Short sentences using behind

I was behind the hedge. [11]
It stood behind the door. [2]
He crept behind the curtain. [11]
He paused behind the chapel. [11]
Doubt not behind that mask [5]
Behind it was some shrubbery. [11]
Behind him more riders climbed. [13]
Behind him trotted Mme. [11]
He's always behind it. [5]
What was behind her resistance? [9]

Sentences containing behind two or more times

Joan walked two yards behind the Count, we three walked two yards behind Joan. [5]
The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it. [2]
I was afraid we might be still behind her, but now that we know she is behind us, everything is safe. [5]
The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the infantry. [2]
But he loved this game too, though there was a troop of foes behind him; and as long as they rode behind him he would ride on. [11]
But Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a common tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse-doctor named Sakka, from Afghanistan. [5]
There were twenty or thirty ladies and gentlemen behind us; we all turned about and went back, and the hog followed behind. [5]
This building stood on a plot of ground belonging to him in Rhacotis, behind a timber-yard which was accessible from the streets in front and behind, but sheltered from the public gaze by sheds and wood-stacks. [10]
Always a creature of abundant energy and sprightliness, she swept through the night, from the comedy behind to the tragedy in front; the grey starlight falling about her white dress and making her hair seem like a cloud behind her as she ran. [11]

More example sentences with the word behind in them

Captain and Quartermaster Zorrillo, remained behind to hold the citizens in check. [10]
Now retire behind your screens, and tomorrow morning I will be your guest. [10]
But I appreciated your precaution in sending the buggy behind me, although it wasn't necessary. [9]
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]
There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
I will drive you with pleasure up and down behind the grove for a little while. [10]
I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage--say to elope--" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. [13]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
They laugh, as you know, at Praxilla, the poetess, because she makes the dying Adonis lament, when face to face with death, that he is forced to leave the apples and pears behind him. [10]
Dido will hide you in the wood-store behind the hearth.-You, Philip, must squeeze into the henhouse. [10]
There's nothing behind you except the wildness of youth--nothing at all. [11]
I'll walk behind you and rest this gun-barrel on your shoulder, p'inting forward--so. [5]
This almost unnatural, yet quiet, intensity had behind it something besides the mere spirit of the sportsman. [11]
Could this awkward, yellow man with his hands behind his back be he whom he had worshipped? [9]
Just a hundred years ago a European rushed in behind the bearers and fed his brutal curiosity with a glimpse of the forbidden mysteries of the place. [5]
I had been wounded lately, and was not able to ride without help; but the good Dwarf took me on behind him, and I held on to him and was safe enough. [5]
He fancied they would see from his looks that he was already on the way to a great crime, and hid himself behind the projecting gate of a large Egyptian house. [10]
And you--if you would fill the position to which I intend to raise you--must first take care to leave all paltry considerations and doubts behind you. [10]
And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
Salem was no worse than some other plantations on the island, but it was far behind such plantations as that owned by Dyck Calhoun, and had been notorious for the cruelties committed on it. [11]
As the night wore on, Lavilette could hear hoof-beats behind him; those of the mare growing clearer and clearer, and those of the artillerymen remaining about the same, monotonously steady. [11]
As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star. [10]
There was a wood-rank four foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide behind that; but maybe it was luckier I didn't. [5]
There was a wonderful sunset beyond the Capitol, but Mr. Balch did not talk about the sunset, although Jethro was watching it from behind the curtains. [9]
But who is without their drawback, their scourge, their skeleton behind the curtain? [14]
When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
Henceforth she read with understanding the changes in his manner, and saw behind the mingled abstraction and fanciful meditation of his talk. [11]
Hundreds of Jesuits, with thousands of the populace, had filed behind the cross and the host. [11]
Dicky was riding with the mamour of the district, Fielding was a distance behind with Trousers and the Mudir. [11]
She beckoned Fulkerson with the hand outstretched behind her, and said, "Go and ask him. [8]
We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. [5]
An enormous space, with our army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; in front of him was misty darkness. [2]
And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. [5]
You will share with me the hope that the highwayman who stopped him may be brought to justice, though, indeed, your man Tardif left him behind in the dust. [11]
How it contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads! [5]
Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed --howled, you may say. [5]
Here's Adam Hunt with his back up, declaring he's a reformer, and all his section of the State behind him. [9]
She was standing with her hands behind her, her back against a great walnut trunk, the crusted branches of which hung over the bluff. [9]
Better stay behind with Gran'pa Ripley till I kin fetch ye both. [9]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink. [2]
It was supplied with bare necessaries, and with a counter, behind which were cups and a few bottles. [11]
Nova a furious wind began to rush out from behind the waterfall, which seemed determined to sweep us from the bridge, and scatter us on the rocks and among the torrents below. [5]
With some misgivings William Wetherell watched Mr. Bixby disappear among the throng, kicking up his heels behind, and then went upstairs. [9]
But the shepherd will return from behind the hill, and the hawks will flee away. [11]
He looked concentrated will and power as he stood with his hands clasped behind him, his shoulders thrown back, his eyes alight with fire and determination. [11]
Mr. Crede, behind whose store I still lived, was getting rich, and happened to have an affair of some importance in Philadelphia. [9]
Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. [2]
He ordered Morris, who stood behind his chair, to have the ground searched and to bring in any straggler. [11]
Mr. Cooke himself, who particularly savored of brimstone, would much better have remained behind the arras, for he was denounced with such energy and bitterness that those who might have attempted his defence were silent, and their very silence told against them. [9]
As men meet who parted yesterday, Kaid, Nahoum, and David met, but Kaid's first quiet words to David had behind them a world of meaning: "I also have come back, Saadat, to whom be the bread that never moulds and the water that never stales! [11]
They are those who developed after the vows of the theological schools were behind them. [9]
In a plain white-washed room, behind a plain oaken desk, sat Mr. Flint--a plain man. [9]
All the coughs, whispers, noises, were gathered in the wooden tympanum behind him, and poured into his ears. [4]
In a little while she heard the carryall behind her clattering down the street, its passengers laughing and joking merrily. [9]
Nevertheless, the life which Victoria led seemingly accentuated--to a man standing behind a picket-fence in the snow--the voids between. [9]
The room in which they were lay on one side of the hypostyle and behind the right-hand--or western--colonnade; more forward, therefore, than the veiled statue and to its left hand. [10]
The streets along which they passed in the pale morning light were now deserted, and a film of mist, behind which glowed the golden light of the newly risen sun, shrouded the horizon. [10]
Handing the flowers, which he had kept hidden behind his back, to her, he said: "Take them and carry them to mother, Bessie; this is the anniversary of her wedding-day. [10]
At another point where they had a long view behind they looked back. [11]
He spied me where I had wormed myself behind the foot-board of a picket fence beneath the cannon-port of a blockhouse. [9]
No--keep your popgun; whenever I see the day that I'll be afraid to have you behind me with that thing, it 'll be time for me to join last year's hundred and eighty-two"; and he rode off in a walk, Shadbelly following. [5]
On Saturday mornings, when she went downstairs, she was wont to find the porch littered with newspapers and her husband lounging in a wicker chair behind the disapproving lilacs. [9]
It's pretty well-guessed what you're goin' to say and what you know, and you take it from me, the M'Mahon mob that's behind Logan 'll have it in for you. [11]
She was feeling what was behind all life, and permanent. [11]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
Yet deep behind what never they forget, Who ever see in life's chance or mischance. [11]
I don't know what is behind these things you are doing, but you'll be sorry for it when it is too late. [11]
When I contrast what I have achieved in my measurably brief life with what he has achieved in his possibly briefer one, the effect is to sweep utterly away the ten-story edifice of my own self-appreciation and leave nothing behind but the cellar. [5]
In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. [10]
To leave the West behind, to go East to a new life full of pleasant things, as this man's wife! [11]
By six we were well over the line, and consulting our chart, we selected a cove behind a headland on our left, which seemed the best we could do for an anchorage, although it was shallow and full of rocks. [9]
The pilot's eyes were riveted on the channel--and yet, as morning drew near, from time to time there was a twinkle, a flash behind the reed-beds on the eastern bank, and now and then there was a rustling and clatter there. [10]
The former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the door, rolled up in a blanket. [5]
The prairie standards were not low; but tolerance is natural where the community is ready-made; where people from all points of the compass come together with all sorts of things behind them; where standards have at first no organized sanction. [11]
The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
The great houses were closed and blinded, and in the evening the servants who had been left behind chattered on the front steps. [9]
Ruefulness and exasperation were behind it. [11]
The young men were apparently quite as much surprised as she, and the parlor maid stood grinning behind them. [9]
In reality, there were about two blocks of the property, extending behind all the houses. [9]
Well, off he went with the slut, and left the lady behind. [11]
When the steward went to summons the musicians to his master's house he had again had no bidding for Dada, and she was very indignant at being left behind. [10]
Of course, we went to see the houses where these old worthies lived, and the works of art they have left behind them,--things seen and described by everybody. [4]
One day he went searching for Kitty at her favourite retreat, a little knoll behind and to the left of the house, where a half-dozen trees made a pleasant resting-place at a fine look-out point. [11]
The "Painter-man" forthwith went out into the rain behind the shed, where a somewhat curious colloquy took place. [9]
After dinner they went into the little orchard behind the house and sat drinking (in the French fashion) the commandant's precious coffee which had been sent to him from far-away New Orleans. [9]
When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
Then the sun went behind Posilipo in a perfect blaze of scarlet, and all the sea was violet. [4]
Seti then had weighed his chances, had seen the avenging friends of Ebn Haroun behind the ghaffirs, and therefore permitted himself to be marched off to the mudirieh. [11]
He arrived alone, wearing the silk hat which had become habitual with him now, and stepping into his barouche at the station had been driven up Brampton Street behind his grays, looking neither to the right nor left. [9]
In our case we were put in the carriage because my mother would not leave us behind, and wanted to give our grandparents pleasure by our presence. [10]
Between the scenes we went behind the curtain, and saw the very curious and admirable machinery of the dramatic spectacle. [6]
By the time we touched the brown-green prairie on the farther side the sand was rolling behind us. [11]
More than that, we stood regular and nearly constant watches pushing up behind. [5]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
And so, as we left league after, league of the blue ocean behind us, I would set my face to the forecastle. [9]

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