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The youth died and slid back off the rigid bayonet.
With my hand upon the region of my heart, as I had seen stars, when called before the curtain on the proudest evening of their lives, give anatomical expression to their overwhelming sense of the honor done them, I backed off, hat in hand.
So, after all, things did not seem to be altogether favorable to Bruin; and had the bear only known what he was up against possibly he would have found it discreet to back off and let the three strange creatures alone.
Now, he dared back off a trifle and take a long breath of air from the burrow he had made.
On the way the Discovery ran on a shoal, but managed to back off without damage.
The Indian stood gazing coldly, till the farmer backed off out of sight, then he himself turned away to the woods.
Bill backed off, further speech toward conciliation becoming as lame as his leg.
I heard a move in the brush, and was backing off, when a light flashed on me, and I felt the touch of a bayonet.
He backed off, jerking the halter taut, but she kept her hold, springing again to the surface of the rock.
She had touched upon one of the shoals, but backed off again without receiving any damage.
My rage at the potter ending in good nature, I moved to make some amends for my haste; but he backed off.
My gentlemen friends tell me that I have the other movie vamps backed off the map.
I carried a badly wounded French officer back off the field.
The last article unloaded, the River Belle backed off and continued her course down stream.
Then he stopped, backed off several paces, and, lowering his head, tried to dislodge the lad from his place of refuge.
"Back off from that keg, or I'll hang your hide to dry on my wagon-wheel in a holy minute!"
The panther was jerked back off his feet and lay sprawling on his back, his feet in the air.
They backed off, fearfully, with their guns at a ready; and when they were clear they ran.
Palmer backed off a pace or two, bowing and feinting as if to fight.
They could visualize the airtight door being closed; the portable elevator backing off, returning to the field house.
With a snarl the cat would suddenly back off and arch up his back and snarl worse than ever.
Bob backed off, as his chum walked this way and that.
An immense and melancholy mob stood on the wharf as the little steamer backed off into the channel.
He backed off and cooled down as if I'd chucked a pail of water over him.
Luckily, the vessel backed off, and the crew set about repairing damages.
His meal finished, he backed off, leaving the sapling to spring up again unharmed.
She backed off to a greater distance; the Cub stood.
He took the back off, and let her see the little wheel whirring back and forth.
She backed off and with her strong arm hit again and again, while Ida Mary ran with a pitchfork.
Growled "poor Tommie," roughly, and Grandpa backed off quickly, with soft tap-taps.
The cranes backed off and went away, clanking.
Cassidy likewise mounted with his attention riveted elsewhere and backed off to the side of his companion.
"I've a mind to tell you all about it," said the girl, in answer to the inquiries of Sylvia, at the same time pushing her hair back off her face and leaning her head on her hands while she rested her elbows on the table.
He backed off the sapling and let its top spring up again toward the empty blue.
His boat soon lost headway, and came to a standstill, refusing to back off or move ahead.
Hank darted in, securing his hitching weight and backing off with it once more.
Back off, bottle immediately, and seal, or tie down the corks.
"Back off of there," I shouted, but the animal's hoofs didn't move.
Zircon dug a shallow hole with his heel and put the dynamite sticks in, then backed off unwinding wire as he went.
He backed off, startled and somewhat frightened.
"I wish it were my pick," he said, as the squire sputtered and backed off.
Then they'd back off to the corner and sulk.
Slowly the victor backs off from her sinking enemy.
He faltered, backing off down the corridor.
The Quack backed off with a wary look in his eye.
He didn't seem to see the gaunt wolf that backed off into the shadows as he approached.
The hardy youngster backed off precipitately.
They were flung directly upon the great Pixie, who was as much surprised by the sudden movement, which he took for an assault, as were the Brownies themselves, and backed off into the stream dragging down the bow with him.
After the attachment is geared for the number of flutes and to compensate for the spiral, the lead-screw is engaged and the backing-off operation is performed the same as though the flutes were straight.
Jacques backed off deliberately to the floor, where he sneezed violently, while Durand gazed at him with a kindly smile.
I threw the tarpaulin back off the end of the wagon, and ran to the river for a billy of water.
If the grub tries to back off into his burrow, out darts the long, barbed tongue and spears him.
Then belly out, brave sail, and back off with a noise like thunder; let the blocks creak, and the ropes strain.
Yet when he saw he was corralled, he stepped back off the rocks!
None of them spoke for an appreciable time, but the hound continued to whine and finally backed off into a corner.
Higgins backed off a bit, still holding fast to Hodge, and handling his revolver threateningly.
Looking down the forward hatch the water could be watched as it boiled up into the fire-hold, but as long as the wheels were kept turning the pumps could keep the in-rush from gaining, so the steamer after backing off was continued on her journey.
She pulled herself away, and backed off, sullen and distrustful.
The car in which the campers had come was backed off the road.
It backed off sputtering then ran away.
Then he snorted and backed off in profound astonishment, colliding with the eager Englishman, to the pain of both.
Johnny leaped down and backed off, dodging behind the corral wall.
Fine as the twine is, they see the meshes and back off.
Billy Mischief for one was not going to take such insults as that, even though the goat that gave it to him was much larger and older than himself, so he backed off into the middle of the street and gave a great run and jump.
The hastily-flung rug was slowly slipping back off the easel.
His hat shoved back off his brow and his forehead puckered in perplexity.
Muttered Hal, backing off a little and looking amazed.
Manufacture of a Hob-cutter, in "Relieving" or "Backing-off" Lathe.
Backing off, he reached for the small but deadly automatic pistol concealed under his left armpit.
It stood a long way back off a main road, and we truants often passed it.
The mountaineers backed off a few paces, muttering.
You can now back off deliberately, run out your oars, an in cold blood charge his exposed flank.
Coming upstream he might feel of a reef with the bow of his boat, and if he did not strike the best water the first time he could back off and try again; but going downstream he must hit the channel the first time, or he is gone.
Springing into the saddle, he rode a few rods up the trail and backed off behind some hemlocks and cocked his rifle.
By skillful handling of the gunboat she was backed off, and then continued up stream beyond the range of fire.
Exclaimed Pecos, backing off; and in an instant the hardened jail-birds knew that they had a "gay-cat."
Her grayish hair is rolled back off her forehead.
The robots backed off, forming a half circle, and bowed in obeisance.
We even lifted the edges of the carpet and took the back off the steel engravings.
As he sank exhausted into a chair, and the boat backed off the levee, I was in blackness for the gloom I felt.
Whitworth self-acting, sliding-surfacing, and screw-cutting lathe, with a backing-off and taper-turning attachment.
Then he backed off onto the wet grass and viewed the vandalism in its entirety.
Remarked the stranger, and he backed off and left the cabin for the promenade deck.
We let them have several good licks with our slingshots, and they backed off for another talk.
We backed off instantly, and the flukes came down on the water, just missing the boat.
Then his despairing cries took a fresh spurt and the hyenas backed off, only to return when he again became quiet.
Even as the boy spoke, there came the click of levers again, the platform dropped back, righting the car, which in due course was lowered to the ground, where it was backed off by another car that was, in turn, raised and dumped.
Gilbert Lloyd stared for an instant in mute astonishment at his wife, who stood confronting him, her eyes sparkling like glowing coals in the midst of her pale face, her hair pushed back off her forehead, her hands tightly clasped behind her head.
Wherever I looked eyes dropped, and timid hands fidgeted as their owners backed off from my dangerous enthusiasm.
It stops instantly, backs off, revolving in the opposite direction, turns somewhat to one side, and swims forward again.
The train slid out to the verge of a precipice, and then backed off, just before the crash came.
The frightened pair finally got their engine started, backed off at full throttle, swung around and headed out to sea.
The supervisor, an astonished look on his face, stumbled back off the amphibious vehicle and into the swamp.
Tad backed off and flattened himself against the wall.
Her waving, dark hair was drawn back off her face, and crowned with an ivy wreath.
Then I guessed that she meant us to move back off the brazen floor.
"Yes, backed off, and I lost track of him among the rocks and the bushes," Thad went on to say, impressively.
Had Tarzan backed off, growling, the young bull would quite probably have been satisfied, but always after Tarzan's station among his fellow apes would have been beneath that of the bull which had made him step aside.
At once the boat backed off the sandy beach, turned its prow and moved swiftly over the water.