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His mind travelled back down the gloomy avenues of his past, along those last aching years of grinding and undeserved poverty.
In the plaza stands a pine tree pole, fifty feet in height, and from a cross-piece at top dangles a live sheep, with legs tied together and back down.
The man saluted, and Ken and Roy, who had hardly expected to leave the place alive, found themselves marched back down the evil-smelling street and shut up once more in the same hovel as before.
Stamping and panting, the two worked gradually back down the slope until they had passed the clump of scrub from behind which the German had appeared.
This was no light matter for men unaccustomed to such beastly toil and in such abominable weather; but, having once put their hands to the rope, they were not the men to back down.
I promised to overtake them within a week, and the same evening rejoined the mixed herd some ten miles back down the country.
Graham might have come back down the north road in his car and afterwards taken to the moors, but it was difficult to understand how he had found Foster's track.
A few men indeed ran back down the slope to the nearest cover, and there savagely turned to bay, but the greater part of the front line was shot down.
By this time the train had come in, the engine had switched to the siding, picked up their sleeper, and was now backing down to couple on to the train again.
He says that about two o'clock in the morning of Saturday, two weeks ago, an engine and a single car backed down from the west to the Gloria bridge, and a crowd of men swarmed off the train, loaded those bridge-timbers, and ran away with them, going back up the line to the west.
And like one in a dream I gathered my lace-trimmed skirts in my hand and backed down a spider-web stairway that barely gave one foothold.
Why should any one ever have supposed that it takes a backing down, giving up, teary, weak, and grieved person to do this?
He could not know that Mary V went back down the hill, sneaked into the bunk house and got Johnny's coat, and sewed the sleeve lining in very neatly, and took the coat back without being seen.
Raise the door in the engine deck and remove the obstruction if in the elevator, reverse the elevator screw forcing the obstruction back down in transfer hopper.
She ran back down the stairs and impetuously flung herself into Kathleen's arms; then danced away to join the others in the blessed regions above.
As the mother read, the afternoon waned, and when she looked up, she was astonished to see John standing beside the rock, waist deep in a hole, trying to back down into it.
Then the duck took the shape of the Queen and went to the child, and gave him to drink, smoothed his little bed, covered him up again, and then, in the likeness of a duck, swam back down the gutter.
The broad planes of his sunburned face turned into the driving cold wind for a moment, and then he looked back down at the weather report secured to the top of a stack of papers on his clipboard.
She looked back down the staircase carefully and with the greatest caution; then she entered and went on tiptoe, noiselessly, down the passage into the sitting-room.
In this they were foiled by our cutting the line and backing down the stream, receiving at the same time a volley by way of a parting salute.
The laborers broke and ran, or rather crawled on their bellies until they were well away, before they got to their feet and pelted back down the strand.
Ten minutes later Jean, with her heart beating fearfully, stood facing Harlan, as she prepared to back down the steep rocky slide.
Bunting folded the paper up again in its original creases, and then she stooped and put it back down on the mat where she had found it.
A yell from the basement called him back down to where Izzy was busily going through piles of crates and boxes stacked along one wall.
The trail zigzagged into mountain ravines, passed over the tops of ridges, slipped back down again into shallower valleys but ever made higher and higher altitudes.
We were raised as it were in the air and held there gasping for breath, and then we were swept back down the hill, struggling desperately to gain a foothold to make a stand.
The two men ran back down the corridor and burst through the door, startling a conference group of five of the other Masters.
Orders were immediately given to back down behind the bluff, but by some mishap she ran aground on the right side, in plain view of the battery, within easy range and powerless for offense.
Inch by inch, fighting with splendid gallantry, the attacking force was pressed back down the hillside, till at last it retreated upon its reserves in something like confusion.
He swept up the shavings from the boring of the hole with his hands as they hurried back down into the basement, where they found the end of the wire dangling from the ceiling.
As we, the only two Doctors Grenfell extant, marched solemnly back down the aisle side by side, the antithesis of what doctorates called for struck my sense of humor most forcibly.
He laid the teddy bear back down, wiping a little dust from its face as in a last gesture of farewell, and stood up to face Julia empty-handed.
Jimmy nodded his head, as if pleased that they did not mean to back down; though he should have known Ned better than to suspect the other of timidity.
Let the skin rest back down while engaged in this, sewing up the skin as it proceeds, with stout twine and a sail needle.
Feud and faction had discouraged Gladstone, and now was his chance to get out without either backing down or running away!
If it had not been for the ignominy of backing down from the bold stand he had taken, Jet would have accepted the invitation.
The Invisible Man Crouching back into the shadow, Tom Hunter waited as the heavy footsteps moved up the corridor, then back down, then up and down again.
And by the lightning's light, the two men, with two ugly pistol-nozzles in their faces, took their guns and groped and backed down the mountain into the darkness, where they belonged.
Then, with further songs of triumph, they were swiftly transported back down the river to the village to which their captors belonged.
He backed down the ladder, feeling his way cautiously with his fat legs, trotted to the waiting cab, and was whirled away.
I followed Captain Nemo, who, via one of the doors cut into the lounge's canted corners, led me back down the ship's gangways.
At that time, the summer solstice of these southernmost districts, the sun had started back down, and tomorrow it would cast its last rays.
He stood beside the girl watching the big animal romp for a few moments, then she shut the door, and they turned back down the hall.
Anyway, when next I saw him he was coming back down the Cutting followed at an interval by a sentry with a fixed bayonet, who asked me if I knew who he was.
He sat back down and corrected his error, wondering if there were any others he'd made in his chagrin over Corina's betrayal.
He quickly retraced his steps, passing one scene of consternation after another, and went back down to the work floor, wondering what it all meant.
To obviate the difficulty of having the delegation back down the long room, it was the Crown Prince who departed first, with the Chancellor.
Here is probably the only instance in American history in which a single Indian chief was able to enforce his demands and make a great government back down.
"I know, I know," the supervisor said, and then, worried that he may be giving the appearance of backing down, commanded savagely, "just watch it, that's all!"
It would never do for this boy who was a sergeant to "back down" before such an affront, both to himself and to good discipline.
In due time the train was backed down to the main track, the engine detached made a run for water, and, returning, stood some little distance from the cars.
Repeated Dick, who was like Marcy Gray in that he never "pulled in his shingle one inch"; in other words, never backed down from his principles, no matter who might hear what he had to say about them.
Sick with horror and loathing, Ashton ran to snatch up an armful of the smaller driftwood and hurry back down to the center of the barrier.
They could never make it back down that gauntlet and live, and anything like concerted action on the part of the yellows would do for them where they were.
Then he slipped back down to his horse, got in the saddle, and took up a position just at the lower end of the outcropping, some little distance back from the trail and above it.
They fought the enemy back down the north side of the hill, foot by foot, steadily, digging with charred sticks and throwing earth and small stones down upon it.
During the seconds in which father and son scrutinized each other Thor felt himself backing down with a sort of spiritual cowardice.
Just then the Jennie June's bell rang, the lines and gang-planks were hauled in, and she backed down the river to her moorings.
The hobo was walking fast, coming back down the hill, and when he saw Hill by the blankets he broke into a ponderous trot.
That evening just at dusk he went back down the trail and set his bear traps again, but not even a prowling fox came along in the night to spring their cruel jaws.
The small physicist awoke and attempted to sit up in one gesture; bumped his head on the hammock above, and laid back down just as suddenly.
Although the trail slanted up and down, from valley to mountain pass and back down again, the way led constantly higher toward the white-capped peaks that have been called "The Backbone of the World."
I guess as soon as we have purely Gentile officers in the township, and the control of the policy of the city, the Mormons will have to back down considerable.
He turned all colors of the rainbow, and several smothered laughs were heard in the crowd, but he could not well back down, and so we had molasses for breakfast.
Sir Charles raged back down the drive, striving to think of some means of punishing the insolence of the foreman pantechnicon-man.
Back down through corridors and strange chambers they moved, stopping every little while as something that sounded like footsteps passed over them.
Valiant turned away with a feeling almost of nausea, and plunged back down the forest hillside, the shrill laughter of the woman under the strip of burlap echoing in his ears.
A wild impulse assailed him to leap up and confront them all, to choke the lie back down the throat of the man who had uttered it.
And, with a nod in which there was almost a wink, the American convert went back down the hall and up the stairway, disappearing through a door which closed with a sharp bang behind her.
He'd sat back down, picked up a pencil off his desk to distract himself, and was whirling it pensively, one of his few habits that made me crazy.
I pulled my passport out of my bag, along with a charge card, slipped them both into my pants pocket, and headed back down the hall.
On the head end Jack Moore and Oyster were backing down on the olive-green string with the two smoothest moguls on the division.
They waited a few minutes, but no gunshot came out of the mist, and when everything was silent they turned back down the gutter.
Presently she stopped near the east end of the building, and Whitney looked back down the long rows of plinths, from which the pillars had fallen, and up into the hollow of the great ruined tower.
I struggled to my feet, and got my crutch under my arm, telling Hawkins that my friends would be expecting to hear from me; and I began to hobble back down the dark vale.
She was just about to rush back down to the lobby when she stopped and called Lester, her fingers moving of their own volition.
When, as sometimes happened, a member resented the manager's method of criticism in no uncertain terms, that personage would back down and with tearful, if blasphemous, appeal explain himself.
He ran forward barking joyfully; the two dogs smelled each other, and then trotted back down the path together as if they had been friends since they were puppies.
Kim tore back down the ditch till he reached a point opposite his second resting-place, slipped across the road like a weasel, and recoiled himself in the blanket.
He rather thought they would not now; and so reflecting reined his unwieldy charger round, and rode back down the pitch, at a much better pace than he had ascended it.
And when the little porcupine, instead of climbing higher, out of his reach, came lazily back down the trunk and began to gnaw the frozen bark, the wolf thought it was easy game.
Then Frank remembered that the last thing he had seen of Bluff he was perched on the bulwark of the boat, with his back down the river, and enjoying his second relay of lunch.
It lasted but a minute; then the attacking tide flowed back down the hill, and again the machine-guns of the fort took up that deadly chorus.
With drums beating they hurled themselves on the French, swept them out of the graveyard, and drove them back down the slope.
Moreover, though two of them went back down the path until they could hear the voices of the villagers, there was no sign of man, wolf or child.
Then the sergeant marched back down the room, beaming satisfaction painted upon every line of his face, bold, swarthy, and somewhat bull-necked.
The recaptured captive, dragged back down the ravine, though with fearful apprehensions as to what was in store for him, had no longer any doubt as to the identity of him with whom he had to deal.
These two were hung onto a pack-animal with their backs down, their feet lashed together over the pack-saddle, and their long, sharp snouts pointing toward the horse's head.
The shoulders and back down to the middle were square, white, and smooth as the back of a man, and from the middle to the end it tapered like a broad-hooked arrow.
Commodore McDonough steamed up the river and opened fire on us, but a few well-directed shots from our batteries soon made her desist and drop back down the river.
Prowling around it must have climbed on the roof, and then finding it could back down the throat of the chimney, that's what he's done.
When the sight-seers boarded the laboring little train again and were dragged back down the mountain, their night of vigil would begin.
Then to Uncle Charlie, shaking his head over this unwonted friction as he rose to start back down town: "They tell me there is whooping-cough around everywhere, Charlie."
Billy saw then that the whole thing had been a hoax, and he flew back down the long street, with a great terror in his heart.
This detour took us past the round-house, and when we reached the turn-table lead, the engine of the just-arrived freight came backing down the skip-track.
She protested; and she was still telling him all the different reasons why he mustn't, when we heard the creak and grind of the stolen engine coming back down the old spur.
I backed down this bank, forded the shallows, then, instead of coming out on the sand, I waded up stream to my little thread of a brook, and up that brook till I found a great log choking it.
Without a moment's loss of time, he called his men together and hurried back down the gully, where he ordered them to line the banks on both sides, keeping well in shadow from the light of the fire.
Then, lamenting the inevitable close of another perfect day, we drove back down the vagrant deviating way, feeling as though we had for a brief space been translated to a new and inspiring world.
A burst of hard, barking laughter comes from the unseen occupants of the cells, runs back down the tier, and abruptly ceases.