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The coal sends out a cushion of smoke, which expands and rolls up the stove, falls back, and piles its muslin on the floor.
Strength and fortitude were needed to combat him, and her birth, her education, and her life had given her nothing to fall back upon.
Every thing seemed falling back into the pleasant monotony of a peaceful country life, pleasant after the terror and grief of the past months.
It was the beginning of the end for M'Loughlin, for once his attack was repulsed he had no sound defense to fall back on.
"Here is balm for the wounded," Alexander said, lifting a handful of the coins and permitting them to fall back in a glittering stream.
It was soon ascertained, however, that their falling back was not a retreat, but a pretense, and that they were preparing to attack us.
The mind struggles and then falls back upon itself, despairing in the efforts to grasp by a single thought the idea of its immensity.
Thus, for poetical use, dealing with the events and characters of the heroic age, they properly fall back upon the names which Homer employed.
The enemy had been steadily falling back, and up to the present our men had encountered nothing more formidable than heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Theirs is never the admirable but inflexible stature of the often to lose their strangling hold at last, and fall back in spiral coils.
The French took possession of it; and as it flanked our knoll we were obliged to abandon it also and fall back again behind the hedge.
The wicked man who persecutes a good man is compared to a madman who spits against heaven, the spittle falling back in his face.
Then, after a seemingly interminable wait, a dome-shaped mass of water was lifted bodily upwards, breaking and falling back in a smother of foam.
I unfolded to him my great and consuming desire for a timetable, as I expected to fall back on the railroad with more or less frequency.
Our orders were to make a feint, and if we found that the Turk meant to stay and fight it out seriously, we were to fall back.
And I shall most assuredly tell her so, before I fall back into the position of a mere ordinary acquaintance to which you wish to relegate me.
For all others a blank wall stretches at the end of life, against which hopes, when they strike, fall back stunned and dead.
If this development be ascribed to the influence of light, long continued but passively received, we fall back on the theory we have just criticized.
One of the pursuers was clearly falling back, which was satisfactory, though he fancied that the other man was still holding his own.
Finding that persuasion and oratory were of no avail, they decided to fall back upon the supernatural and to frighten the French from their design.
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
They were compelled, however, to fall back upon their last camel, though he was so lean and worn-out that he did not cut up well.
It seems as if you were at the foot of a precipice lined with steep rocks, which you fain would climb, yet fall back again and again.
They were outnumbered by three to one; and they were therefore forced to fall back till fresh troops could be brought up to their assistance.
They dug in among the tree roots in the inky darkness, without the remotest idea of falling back, as they waited for support to come.
Her arms curved up to her shining head, the loose sleeves falling back from them; they looked like handles of ivory on a gold-rimmed goblet.
It was like an animal trying to leave a sea, and falling back at each attempt by reason of the crumbling of the shore under its weight.
The corporal takes the slow match in turn and bends low over the powder, only to fall back the next instant mortally wounded.
He was slowly falling back, and hopeful of getting away, when he stepped into a marshy place into which he immediately sank above his knees.
Though the French were still fighting bravely, it was evident that they must soon fall back into the plain, or else be routed and destroyed.
She has no friends, so she will have to fall back, I suppose, on shops and theaters, and of course clothes, which she still loves.
Yet there were times when the infantry had a bare day's supply with them, though they had their iron rations to fall back upon.
The great waves came roaring in, and dashed themselves against the walls of slate in sheets of foam, to fall back baffled and groaning.
It was a curious idiosyncrasy that led this man, when fortune and reason were swept away at a stroke, to fall back upon this imaginary imperialism.
Where real men are missing, we will be forced of necessity to fall back on the big-hearted women that have so long stood in the breach.
Plank and posts from the adjacent fencing were taken to line the parapet and to prevent the earth from falling back into the canal.
The French took possession of it; and, as it flanked our knoll, we were obliged to abandon it also, and fall back again behind the hedge.
A sheet of flame from above was rained down, causing many a brave man to stagger and fall back into the ditch, never to rise again.
With all their practicality and skill in affairs, it is a constant source of wonder that so few Chinese ever have anything to fall back upon.
And yet no amount of discouragements, such as these, will warrant our falling back upon a supposition which we have already discarded as incoherent and absurd.
If we are to acquit the individual criminal of responsibility, it falls back necessarily upon the social community through which the causes of degeneration and disease have filtered.
He ventured nothing, as he did not wish to fall back; he had on his face a stern blush, and he was timid almost to rudeness.
Sometimes, as in my text, he falls back upon the thought of the bright waters of the moat on which no enemy can venture to sail.
Then from a state of conflict I fall back into the fluid, vague, indeterminate state, which feels all form to be a mere violence and disfigurement.
Except for the power of religion, and the sustaining influence of faith, nothing could have restrained him from falling back on despondency or despair.
He is fine enough to be permanently stirred by the tragedy he has earned, yet coarse enough to fall back into a merely sensuous life of meaningless pleasures.
The light smoky haze on the ridges was infinitely varied in tone, and caused the distance to fall back, crest behind crest, in illimitable perspective.
To illustrate further, the great waves rush onward only to fall back again, and we can hardly tell whether the tide is flowing or ebbing.
If, impatient of a host of inarticulate instructors, we prefer communing with our kind and falling back on human story, some of that, too, is at hand.
Sometimes they have had to fall back altogether when they have been with gold or treasure seekers, but never when they were with trading parties.
He lay in the stern watching the rhythmic rise of the oar-blades, and the flashing of the water-drops falling back like diamonds into the wave.
The Sultan shrank before this furious uproar of the mob, and, involuntarily falling back, stammered, pale as death: "With what shall we allay this tempest?"
His position was an exposed one, and he was repeatedly entreated to fall back; but all such entreaties were useless when once he became heated in action.
The latter began to fall back, and the defenders of the house presently caught sight of their figures as they flitted from tree to tree.
She uttered them in a tone of firmness: and, falling back, expired in torments, which her fine but expressive features declared that she gloried in.
Little bands of men, the remnants of dauntless battalions, holding isolated, advanced points, were commanded to fall back in order to straighten out the line.
Some bold man sprang out of shell-craters to seek close quarters or to try to reach a machine-gun, only to fall back dead into his companion's arms.
When features or limbs for artistic reasons are changed or distorted, men reject the artistic problem and fall back on the secondary question of anatomy.
My husband has gone abroad, and somehow I have overrun my allowance, so that I have to fall back upon my old work for a time.
For a minute's space it was hot work, but then the French began to fall back, and with a shout the English handful followed.
The poisonous fumes had disabled the troops of the Twelfth Brigade, and they were forced to fall back, but the Tenth Brigade stood fast.
Then, her sense of horror engulfed by overwhelming drowsiness, she would fall back against the pillow and drift into a state of soothing stupor.
Can we not see his opponents, falling back beaten, knitting their brows, taking counsel together, planning some overwhelming defeat for this impudent young heretic?
This movement fell upon Wayne like a thunderbolt, who was himself compelled, by reason of it, to fall back, at the hazard of his entire command.
He knew that he was moving forward handsomely, and that if he yielded to the excitement of the situation for a moment he might fall back.
"What a pity," grumbled the old fellow, letting himself fall back into his chair, and taking a pinch of snuff with his shaky hands.
Suddenly she gave a smothered scream, and for the first time in her life fainted dead away, falling back again into the arms of her escort.
At Detroit the general, Proctor, was cut off from his supplies, and, recognizing his position, resolved to evacuate and fall back on Burlington Heights.
Their swords were made of tin alloyed with copper, and after a brief skirmish, the entire army had to fall back and straighten its blades.
Then she spoke, and his tension relaxed a little, the note of helpless suffering in her voice making him wince and fall back a step.
To make them fall back, even from a wise and well reasoned calculation, is to cool in them that impetuosity from which they derive all their strength.
I only know Tom and I held the rear, sweeping circles of death with our whirling gun-barrels, falling back step by step as we fought.
Early in the evening our right wing had to yield to an overwhelming force, and during the night all the commandos had to fall back.
Her light gingham bonnet, falling back, disclosed a long oval face, fair and delicate, sweet brown eyes, and brown hair laid smoothly over the temples.
It would be impossible to carry enough food, and we should have to fall back on such crops, fruit and vegetables as might be ripe and obtainable.
The advancing column then halts for a while; its two extremities fall back upon themselves, and as soon as they are re-united they proceed onwards.
She uttered them in a tone of firmness, and, falling back, expired in torments, which her fine, her expressive features declared that she gloried in.
Variety is what is sought; but if we destroy the original mold, one of the terms of this variety is lost, and we fall back on sameness.
Relieved of their first anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed their praiseworthy efforts a little, and began to fall back into old ways.
A rambling desultory conversation followed; but Richard Newark would not suffer it to fall back into the channels through which it had been previously flowing.
Then the courage of the hungry hundreds oozes away, and they fall back before that menacing apparition which glowers at them along the rifle barrel.
I'll fall back on first principles; order complete rest, mustard poultice to the chest, chicken broth, and a couple of Holloway's pills night and morning.
Several years of her agitated life were spent in the country in complete retirement, where she had no resources to fall back upon but a good library.
Nervous weakness, he proceeds, produces failure of attention, the inhibitory power of attention being no longer exerted, and the psychic elements fall back to anarchy.
General Porter with a terrific volley, driving them back in complete disorder, till they themselves were in turn forced to fall back by superior numbers.
She turned to the left, and pushing open the linted, stuffed door of the portal of Saint Agnes, let it fall back heavily behind her.
And land-owning peasants growing their own food would carry on, and small cultivating occupiers, who could easily fall back on barter for anything needed.
"Suppose it is," scoffed Dave, falling back beside the cart "Tom, just think of the fine training your back muscles are getting out of this work!"
A very little, my love, and everything gained for us by civilization crumbles; we fall back to the first mortar-bowl we were bruised and stirred in.
There, as the doors were barricaded, and the walls loopholed, the rebels could make no impression, and were obliged to fall back to a respectful distance.
It is expedient that you should determine from this moment to fortify yourself against any falling back, and to do all in your power for recovery.
It is no longer possible to fall back on Paul's position that the potter is at liberty to doom one pot to honor and the other to dishonor.
At the first appearance of this subtle Foe terror is struck into the heart of the inmates, so that they fall back helpless, paralyzed with fear.
Our cavalry picket line was ordered to hold its place only until the enemy advanced and then fall back also, within the fortified lines.
The Count himself, not at that moment trusting his soldiery, who were in an extremely mutinous condition, was desirous of falling back before his formidable antagonist.
The 48th was obliged to fall back, as the rebels outnumbered them three to one, but made good their retreat without the loss of a man.
We were too far out near the crest of the hill looking down on the cornfield where the rebels were, but I did not fall back.
As Little Snap spoke he slipped from the saddle into the middle of the road, the outlaws at the same time falling back a few feet.
They were gathered round a tree, in a clearing just like that I had left, and were madly leaping against it, but ever falling back baffled.
Possibly these masses were prevented from falling back into the sun by the attraction of the colliding body, or the body which caused the eruption.