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A man was coming up the path, and when he reached the steps she shrank back against the wall.
The woman breathed an invocation to the Deity and sank back against the wall, her face ghastly beneath its paint.
The friar was sitting on a worm-eaten bench there, leaning back against the wall, his hand over his eyes.
The weight of the blow jarred him back against the wall, but he met the glare of Cartwright with a steady eye, a thin trickle of crimson running down his cut lips.
A wounded Seneca sitting with his back against the wall began to chant a low, wailing death song.
"After all," he said to himself as he put the chair back against the wall, "everything else would be failure, and this may be success."
Then she released the clasp of my hand, and leaned back against the wall, shading her eyes.
Once I had to stop, faint and sick, everything about swimming in mist; then I made the supreme effort, and turned over, my back against the wall, and Miles' ghastly face in my lap.
Afterwards I came out and seating myself on the bench with my back against the wall, waited for something to happen.
Then, as I stepped past her, she gave a low cry, hiding her face in her hands, and leaned back against the wall, quivering from head to foot.
See where the chair is pushed back against the wall, just as he would have pushed it had he arisen hastily.
She stood back against the wall underneath the shining frames, looking about her with a nervous, timid smile.
Fear ruled her with an iron hand, and she swayed back against the wall and supported herself with an outstretched hand.
He was lying back against the wall, with his eyes apparently shut, and his chin sunk upon his collar.
Sylvia leaned back against the wall of the staircase, holding her breath, and tightly pressing a hand upon her heart.
He locked his arms over his chest, set his back against the wall, and fell into a deep melancholy.
Sneak leaned back against the wall, and while he grinned at the amusing scene, seemed curious to know what would be the result.
She stood back against the wall, in a dark corner, striving to collect her thoughts, thankful for the brief respite from conversation.
Once he looked up towards the box in which she was, and Maggie, although she knew she was invisible, shrank back against the wall.
The vaulting had been cut on that side, in order that the foot of the bed might stand back against the wall.
Inez leaned back against the wall beside the window, letting her hand drop in a hopeless gesture.
He touched her hair with his lips and went on speaking, as she leaned back against the wall again.
Then he turned his away, with a sudden terror at himself, and leaned back against the wall, white in the face.
Said the Chevalier, leaning back against the wall with his dark eyes blazing from a white face; "you insist."
Then I stepped forward into the hall, sending him that withstood me over on his back against the wall.
She crept far back against the wall and was soon fast asleep, lying in a nice warm corner, just under the ceiling.
Alexander was wounded in many places, and at last received a blow on the neck with a club, which forced him to lean his back against the wall, still facing the enemy.
I leaned my head back against the wall, and had shut my eyes to consider the matter more quietly, when I heard my name.
Dave Morningstar, hat pulled down over his eyes, sat in a chair tilted back against the wall, watching him from beneath the brim.
Unless in pale colors, they stop the light, absolutely, throwing it down, if on a lamp, and back against the wall, if on side brackets.
I sat with my back against the wall of the house of Broken Plate, as I ate quickly at the mandate of my host, and soon I felt the need of this support.
I stood in the corner of the room with my back against the wall, and my hand on the cold rifle-barrel.
At that moment the wind, which had risen suddenly, blew open the shed door and sent it banging back against the wall.
John stopped and leaned back against the wall, his arms crossed and a thoughtful look on his face.
Rolf assented; and they found Uncle Titus sitting there with his chair tipped back against the wall, looking very much pleased to see them.
Near to him, likewise upon the floor, but sitting up, his back against the wall, was the Dummy.
She stretched out her small, neatly shod foot in front of her, leaned her back against the wall, and presently could afford to smile.
He leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes to shut out the dizziness with which exhaustion and hunger filled his aching head.
Adjusting his chair to the angle of ease, he tipped back against the wall and made tentative entry into his book.
In the Sixth Congressional District, Douglas found his friend Harris fighting desperately with his back against the wall.
A deep hush fell upon the crowd, and the people surged back against the walls, leaving the center space vacant.
In one corner Peter John was standing, his back against the wall and in his hands was one of the heavy wooden chairs which he was grasping by the rounds.
As the rest of the evening was to be spent there, round the table, drinking tea, they leaned back against the walls and continued chatting while the servant cleared away.
The women screamed and shrank back against the walls of the hall, hiding behind the tables.
Fritz signed to Julian to be the speaker, and he leaned his back against the wall, clasping his hands behind his head.
Ellen's chair had been pushed back against the wall when she rose; one would not have known that Ellen had been sitting there too.
The half-breed was sitting in the doorway outside, with his chair tipped back against the wall.
His fingers touched the figure he had hidden there and closed upon it lightly, and then his head dropped back against the wall, and he fell into a heavy sleep.
Most of the things had been set back against the wall, but right in the middle of the floor was an object which I took at first for a small trunk.
She made an effort to sit up, then sank back against the wall, uttering a sharp cry of distress.
From his position with his back against the wall he could see Stephen lift his fine head from his book and rise to greet them.
The clerk carefully tilted his chair back against the wall and surveyed his outstretched feet.
The old judgment seat stood back against the wall, and our table was the one at which the justices had been wont to sit.
Gaston, his eyes threatening to bulge from his head, had fallen back against the wall opposite.
I fell back against the wall, and he came up to me, grinding his teeth, and, as I fell upon my knees, he hissed mad, incoherent words and curses at me.
I sat down in a chair and leaned back against the wall, tilting my hat down over my eyes and pretending to fall asleep.
The chairs all stood back against the walls, and left in the center a wide extent of faded carpet, full of shadowy gray scrolls.
The table, covered with a white cloth, was set back against the wall, with only one leaf spread.
Rankin moved back from a well-discussed table, and, the room being conveniently small, tilted his chair back against the wall.
She entered the sitting-room, and when she met her mother's anxious, tender eyes, she stood back against the wall, with her hands to her face, sobbing.
He seated himself as he spoke, on an ancient bench that rested its back against the wall just where the wind was sweetest.
Mills sat on the floor, his back against the wall, his hands braced on his knees to keep his body erect.
A woman about forty-five years of age accompanied them into the room, then planted herself with her back against the wall near us, which was as far away from her charges as space permitted.
Tom eased back into the compartment again and sat back against the wall to consider his next move.
Little by little he crept closer, until he stood beside the window, his back against the wall.
The two chests they moved out farther into the hall and the trunk was placed back against the wall, ready for further investigation.
Carson, close at Lee's heels, his eyes glittering, stepped a little aside when once he was within the room and took his place with his back against the wall close to the door.
He caught Rose-bud by the two shoulders, drove him back against the wall and held him there while he spoke to him.
She drew a long, shivering sigh, at the thought of his peril, I fancied, and she sat back against the wall.
He tilted his chair back against the wall and turned a delighted face up to Rand's flushed one.
The landlord hopped into the pen and flipped the huge turtle over on its back against the wall.
There was a dead silence for the space of a long minute, and while it endured the man sat motionless, with his back against the wall and his hands locked over his knees.
"Such as Squire Lee, for instance," added Bobby, as he rose from the table and put his chair back against the wall.
There could be no mistake, as the chair was a light one, and the weight of my overcoat threw it back against the wall.
The boy stood back against the wall by the door, his face was white and his eyes full of horror, and he looked in a dazed way at the two men.
Yet as he stood there, with his back against the wall, he felt something dormant and deep-seated stirring within him.
Let him have some awkward fellow rack his joints by sitting on him and leaning back against the wall.
Buck followed along until he came to where Elmer was standing with his back against the wall, and then the two paused and entered into conversation.
Then he looked at Maurice, who was laughing, too, threw himself back against the wall, opened his mouth, and joined in with all his heart.
Having removed the ladder, he crept to the extremity of the excavation, and with his back against the wall and his gun held in readiness, awaited the coming of the chief.
At one time General Jackson, who had retreated until he stood with his back against the wall, was protected by a number of his friends, who formed a living barrier about him.
And there Ernest stood with folded arms, leaning back against the wall just within the door, stern and silent, casting a dark shadow on my soul.
When at the entrance of the corridor, he turned, and placing his back against the wall, said sadly: "I have a few words to say to you!"
Maya was standing back against the wall on the other side of the room, alarmed at the noise in the corridor, frightened at the opening of the door.
He pushed the Violinist towards the door and closed it behind him; then he fell back against the wall and listened.
She leaned back against the wall beside the door, closed her eyes and breathed slowly and deeply for some seconds.
Sitting down on it with his back against the wall, the poor youth laid his face in his hands and began to think and to pray.
When he had received his change from the shopkeeper, he folded his arms and leaned back against the wall in quiet indifference.
Stokes knocked at the door he stood modestly aside with his back against the wall of the next house.
Then she knelt before her small hair-covered travelling trunk, and, having unlocked it, she slowly raised the lid and placed it back against the wall.
They stood back against the walls of the cavern chamber, their wings folded, the antennae on their orange foreheads waving gently.
Unable to believe his eyes, he saw the legs of Louie and Joe take backward steps until they were back against the wall.
She stepped on her train, tripped, lost her balance, and fell heavily back against the wall.
And once again, on returning to the chamber, his inclination was to prop his back against the wall and let himself sink in slumber.
The big laborer was sitting on the stool in his cell, leaning back against the wall, his hands loose and open at his sides.
His head sank lower between his shoulders, and the shoulders eased back against the wall behind his bench.
The chairs had been moved back against the walls, but all else was as it had been the night before.
He knew he dared not even lean back against the wall or relax any of his vigilance, not so much over the prisoners and Boyd, as over himself.
Being somewhat philosophical, this he did, leaning his back against the wall, and gave himself up to formulating a plan of campaign.
He pressed back against the wall, waited until the sounds were near, then threw open the hatch.