Back-in Sentence Examples

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  • I'll be back in a little while, sweetheart.

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  • Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, watching Alex.

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  • She leaned back in arms.

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  • She began to moan and sunk her nails into my back until we finally flopped back in exhaustion.

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  • She leaned back in his arms.

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  • Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, his attention lost in thought.

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  • She flipped the phone shut and put it back in the sheath.

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  • At his nod, she leaned back in her seat.

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  • He picked up the coffee cup and leaned back in his chair, eyeing her thoughtfully.

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  • After their conversation, she leaned back in the chair to get some rest.

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  • Carmen leaned back in his arms and smiled up at him.

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  • He leaned back in his chair, observing Alex over the rim.

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  • It's a long way to drive from Fayetteville, and then they'd have to bring you back in the morning.

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  • He leaned back in the chair, tossing his glasses on the table.

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  • He leaned back in his chair again and stretched his legs out, his piercing gaze sorting through the secrets of her mind.

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  • She put the letter back in the envelope.

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  • He grabbed a handful of her clothes from the suitcase and put them back in the drawer.

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  • He calmly picked the clothes up and put them back in the drawer.

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  • If I wanted someone to organize my life, I would have stayed back in Muskogee with my parents instead of moving here.

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  • After a few hours of limited rest, they were back in the saddle again.

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  • Darcie leaned back in the seat and watched Cassie reflectively for a few minutes.

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  • He finished his pie and leaned back in his chair, his gaze meeting hers.

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  • I'll be back in a few minutes.

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  • She quirked a brow and made an exaggerated point of putting her hair back in order, tossing her head pertly and smiling up at him.

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  • Everyone back in high school figured you and Martha we're the pair.

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  • She was back in Washington.

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  • Recognizing the town would be a step in the right direction but it wouldn't tell you the scene you saw actually happened, back in 1932.

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  • I phoned him after he was back in California.

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  • Do you think he's going back in the past?

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  • I was alone, back in New York, on a totally secure line.

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  • I felt it back in Delaware; I really did!

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  • Common sense slumped back in as I could see his point.

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  • I'll be back in town Friday.

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  • I whined to my daddy director back in Washington.

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  • That's when all the weird tips occur, not further back in the past, but he doesn't know that.

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  • I'll call you back in an hour.

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  • We'll drive back in the morning.

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  • I rocked back in my chair, feeling a strange relief but unable to fathom the source.

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  • Howie located him back in February.

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  • Once back in Surry, I wasted no time in telephoning the number Brennan had given me to reach him.

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  • I drove by earlier with my family and we thought we saw a friend's rig back in the corner.

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  • Maybe he's grown up and changed; God knows I have but back in the day, he was a little piss head, always getting in fights, picking on little kids.

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  • If I'm not back in twenty minutes, go someplace safe and call the police, okay? she said, placing it on the dashboard.

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  • She flushed and looked him over, then took a step back in to the living room.

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  • Bianca, we'll be out back in the command center for a bit.

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  • He sat like he owned the pub, leaning back in the chair in a display of relaxed power.

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  • He opened his eyes and trotted silently up the stairs, rolling his shoulders back in preparation for a fight with the Other.

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  • A sheen of sweat coated his body, and his white-blond hair was back in a braid.

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  • He leaned back in a chair across from her with muscular, feline grace, managing to appear both at ease and ready to pounce.

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  • He had leaned back in his seat, his face a frozen mask.

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  • She ached to be back in it regularly.

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  • Darkyn caught her easily and pushed her back in front of him, her back to the wall.

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  • I'd rather be back in California.

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  • We'll be back in an hour or two.

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  • Dean felt equally acrimonious toward the overbearing state official whom he hadn't seen since the winter and who, in Dean's mind, had no business being back in Ouray.

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  • Nothing. I so wanted something we could toss back in Fitzgerald's face.

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  • Why would whoever switched the bones hide the real ones back in the trunk—in a place where they were sure to be discovered?

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  • I saw a sign back in Kansas last month.

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  • Its arrival pre-dated theirs, as it would have passed them back in the basin.

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  • I might need a little of that as well, but mostly I'm trying to track down a guy named Josh who worked in mining in Ouray back in the 1960's.

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  • Cynthia looked about to cry, but her anger held her tears in check, at least until they were back in bed.

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  • I want you back in Denver, shuffling paper clips.

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  • She flipped a few strands of her blond hair back in place.

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  • He'll be back in twenty minutes or so.

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  • Martha bounced around, thrilled to be back in the routine, and joined Fred in passing out more campaign literature.

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  • We left an empty bottle by his car and tent and drove back in the Ford.

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  • Darkyn waited beside an open door, hands clasped behind his back in a deceptive display of ease.

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  • Much later she was back in the kitchen, preparing the roast while he slept.

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  • She put the rabbit back in the cage and closed the door securely.

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  • After a while Lori came back in and said she was under arrest.

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  • Leaning back in the chair and lacing fingers behind his neck, that bland gaze roved over her face again.

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  • He took a step and was back in the hallway.

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  • The hands spun several times while the icons around its edges glowed, danced and finally settled back in place.

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  • Be back in a bit.

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  • Toby stood beside a plainly pregnant young woman with blue eyes and a tattoo across her neck that resembled the one on Deidre's back in color and otherworldly script.

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  • The stormy note was back in his voice.

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  • By this time next week, he'd be back in the underworld.

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  • The scientist, whose name was Ully, replaced the vial and leaned back in his chair.

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  • She finished her whiskey and sat back in the chair, its warmth chasing away her internal chill.

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  • She was normally good at covering emotions she didn't want to display, but he read them all and threw them back in her face.

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  • She might not be on her street or even in her neighborhood or city, but it certainly looked like she was back in her world.

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  • I.ll come back in a little bit.

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  • His powers were back in full force, without her to steady his control.

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  • She pulled her hair back in a scrunchie at the base of her neck, growing nervous once again.

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  • School was back in session after the holiday recess so the rink was nearly empty.

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  • The couple was back in Bird Song by seven o'clock.

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  • He used to be a police detective, back in Pennsylvania.

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  • I never had dreams back in Virginia.

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  • I suppose you had a raft of this abuse stuff back in Pennsylvania.

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  • Unless the missus gets an court order on him or a good lawyer, she's back in the nest, and so's the boy.

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  • Fred was back in town, treating the children to sandwiches before returning to the library for a new dose of historical research.

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  • It's as if we've gone back in time!

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  • I'm transported back in time.

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  • It made Janet as mad as a hornet, but Martha's back in the classroom.

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  • I guess your gear is back in your car.

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  • I know we'll probably never learn the answer, but I still can't fathom what could have happened back in Boston to make Annie Quincy desert a comfortable life.

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  • We'll be back in a week or two.

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  • Here, my duties are light, even less than our Emma back in Boston.

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  • She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.

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  • Finally someone from back in Parkside told them.

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  • Why don't you come back in the morning?

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  • Fred examined the picture as Dean slumped back in his chair.

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  • It was then he began the slow realization that it was not his beloved wife who spooned against his back in nakedness, sharing his bed!

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  • He just wanted his wife back in Bird Song.

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  • He's back in Virginia, playing with his storage garages and probably chasing every skirt he hasn't already lifted.

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  • Besides, he was back in Virginia when Edith died.

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  • Able Whitehouse, the guy we spoke to back in Virginia gave us the clue, only we didn't realize it.

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  • Dropping him on the sofa, Jackson sat back in his chair and crossed one long leg over the other knee at the ankle.

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  • Jackson knew he had his work cut out for him in order to be back in less than three hours.

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  • Sarah started to pick up clothes and put them back in the cavernous, walk-in closet.

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  • When they had finished dinner and were having port back in the drawing room, Jackson asked, "Now that you've seen Sarah's shoe closet, would you like to see the rest of the house?"

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  • Jackson took a step back in shock, then noticed Connor and Sarah across the room laughing hysterically.

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  • Oh no, really, all I have to do tonight is put the dishes back in the caterer's boxes.

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  • I'd like you to get back in this bed and show me some reverence.

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  • I'll check back in the morning.

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  • The waiter took their order and Miriam leaned back in her chair.

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  • Once back in human form, she stretched then groaned.

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  • He poured carbonated red grape juice into a long-stemmed glass and set the bottle back in the refrigerator.

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  • He leaned back in his chair, the letter forgotten as he studied the girl in the picture.

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  • He carefully folded the letter and placed it back in the envelope.

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  • Retrieving the glass of grape sparkly, he picked up the picture and leaned back in the chair.

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  • The snow crunched under their feet and the icy carried Katie's words back in a cloud of steam.

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  • An hour later she was back in the barn, - and just in time.

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  • You go ahead and get back in.

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  • He won't be back in there.

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  • So you can work yourself back in here again?

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  • If you came out here to rub it in, you can go back in the house.

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  • His hands slid up her back in a slow caress that made her heart beat wildly.

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  • I'll be back in a minute.

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  • She sat back in the low couch and ate her meal bars, mind going to the micro in his pocket.

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  • Elise released her, sitting back in shock.

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  • Anger was back in her voice.

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  • Will be back in the morning, Brady said and strode to the door.

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  • I'll call back in a few.

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  • The frustration and anger was back in Tim's voice.

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  • Lana sat back in her chair, imagining a simpler life with her Guardian.

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  • I'll be back in a day or so, I promise.

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  • Come back in July if you want to really sweat.

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  • He knew the return trip would be far different, crawling his way back in the snarl of rush hour.

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  • He rocked back in his chair and added, There was a little shindig for the marketing guy—Fletch Brunell.

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  • But we can't just pretend he's gonna come strolling back in the door either.

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  • Or maybe that half blew back in the window when someone tore it in two and tossed it.

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  • On an impulse, Dean drove back in behind it and strolled over to meet the young man who stepped from the vehicle.

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  • The newspaper sub­scription was called in on April eight, the first day he's back in Parkside!

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  • Dean stopped by the office later in the afternoon to clean up a few details as he wouldn't be back in the office for two days— tomorrow, the safe house, Thursday a day off.

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  • It was way back in March.

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  • If you're Byrne, why order the Parkside paper way back in April?

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  • But once back in bed, the complexities and the happenings of the day raised their heads like so many ghosts crying for attention in his tired brain.

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  • There was the Whitney Motel back in Parkside.

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  • I understand from Mrs. Glass he was back in town but has moved out, so you don't have to worry.

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  • The note on the refrigerator said he'd be back in a couple of days and would check in by phone.

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  • He's probably back in Boston or off someplace else doing a job for hire.

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  • I'll be back in a few weeks.

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  • He rocked back in his chair, catch­ing his breath and ignoring the smiles and snickers of the others in the room.

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  • The last thing David Dean had wanted to do was to climb back in his tired automobile and drive to Philadelphia in the middle of the night.

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  • So, back in the car Dean climbed, with an insistent Fred O'Connor beside him, ready to kick him awake if he nodded off.

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  • They tried a couple of times to telephone Mrs. Porter back in Parkside but weren't able to get through.

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  • I'm calling it a night as soon as I try telephoning Mrs. Porter back in Parkside.

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  • You wanted to know what was happening back in Parkside—if there was any mention of the money or Byrne reporting it.

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  • Then I said I'd turn the bags in, back in Scranton—told him I had a lawyer friend or something.

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  • When the gifts were all packed in the truck, Carmen left Alex at the truck and went back in to thank Mums and those who had remained at the house.

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  • I knew about Princes because I took Ed to her for stud service back in January.

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  • Leaning back in his chair, he watched her, his expression sober.

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  • I'll come back in a few minutes.

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  • There was no mirror in the bedroom, so she put the earrings back in the box.

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  • He leaned back in his chair and watched her, his eyes twinkling with humor.

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  • Not as long as it's not back in the hills.

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  • Leaning back in his arms, she smiled.

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  • Leaning back in his chair, he folded the newspaper methodically, still watching her.

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  • They ate in silence and when he finished, he leaned back in his chair sipping his coffee, staring at the table absently.

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  • Alex put down his fork and leaned back in his chair, studying her.

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  • She took the phone from him, avoiding his gaze as she put it back in the holster and hooked the Velcro latch.

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  • He leaned back in his chare, watching her reflectively.

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  • Finally he took another sip of his coffee and leaned back in his chair, studying her.

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  • At least he was back in the house.

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  • The other two must be back in the forested hills.

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  • He leaned back in his chair and frowned at her.

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  • I'll be back in no time.

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  • Call her back in a few hours.

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  • His hands left her face and slid down her shoulders and back in a gentle caress that ended on her waist.

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  • Alex gathered her clothes and calmly placed them back in the drawer.

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  • He'll be back in a little while.

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  • The indecision was back in his expression, pushing away that feeling of security.

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  • Now that they were back in sync, would this unexplainable fear wedge itself between them?

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  • She leaned back in the chair, surrounded by a mixture of emotions.

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  • Jenn set Talia back in her roughly hewn bassinet and rifled through the trunk containing the family's possessions.

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  • Jenn rolled her eyes and leaned back in her chair.

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  • The guardedness was back in her voice.

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  • Claire's auburn hair was tied back in a ponytail, her shapely body clad in a black cat-suit.

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  • Guards hung back in a loose perimeter around him, but they had thus far not challenged him.

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  • Taran threw himself onto his back in front of the fire, exhausted.

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  • They talked for a few minutes and then all eyes turned to Alex when he came back in the house.

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  • Alex leaned back in his chair, his gaze roving over her face.

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  • She had an idea about a way to put Alex back in his own element.

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  • Carmen put her arm back in the sling.

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  • It was good to be back in sync again.

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  • The twinkle came back in his eye.

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  • She could tuck it back in her mind and chew on it later or she could do something about it now.

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  • Finally he leaned back in his chair and sighed.

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  • It was like stepping back in time.

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  • He tucked the package back in his pocket and lifted a dark brow.

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  • If you're sure, Daniel, but I don't know how you can find your way back in this confused mess of vegetation.

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  • The lump was back in her throat.

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  • Seconds later, she was back in the mortal world, where she belonged.

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  • So he nudged the scales back in the right direction, sometimes pushing evil, sometimes good, sometimes pissing off both.

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  • I'll be back in five.

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  • Be back in half an hour.

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  • In the center ring was a petite woman with her long, blonde hair back in a ponytail.

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  • Be back in a minute.

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  • And my cousins, and now –" "I can toss you back in bed and wear you out until you calm down," he interrupted.

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  • She wasn't going back in the cellar to await the psycho Other.

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  • He was back in Scotland towards the end of June.

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  • He received them back in their entirety at the hands of the powers, who recognized his new title of Ferdinand I.

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  • Zwingli and Calvin on the other hand prefer the positive view of law as instituted by God far back in history in the days of the Old Covenant; but,, when exegesis or controversy puts pressure upon them, they fall into line and reiterate the appeal to a Natural Law.

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  • He was back in Rome early in 1503, and took part in reducing the last rebel Orsinis.

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  • He returned to Archangel and brought his ship back in safety to England.

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  • In 1874 he was back in England and took up a staff appointment at Aldershot.

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  • Coloman was twice married, (1) in 1097 to Buzella, daughter of Roger, duke of Calabria, the chief supporter of the pope, and (2) in 1112 to the Russian princess, Euphemia, who played him false and was sent back in disgrace to her kinsfolk the following year.

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  • Occasionally the power of reproduction is thrown still farther back in the life-history, and it is found that from a single egg a large number of embryos may be formed.

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  • The grey column is surmounted by a fine bronze lion of Byzantine style, cast in Venice for Doge Ziani about 1178 (this was carried off to Paris by Napoleon in 1797, and sent back in pieces in 1816; but in 1893 it was put together again); and in 1329 a marble statue of St Theodore, standing upon a crocodile, was placed on the other column.

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  • The exhaustion of the soil under cotton culture is chiefly due to the loss of humus, and nature soon puts this back in the excellent climate of the cotton-growing belt.

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  • But these outbursts of energy were too spasmodic, and popular opinion repeatedly veered back in favour of the peace-party.

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  • The railway from Chattanooga to Atlanta, destroyed by Johnston as he fell back in May and June, was now repaired and working up to Thomas's camps.

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  • He encountered the allies at Fornovo, and after a drawn battle cut his way through them and was back in France by November; Ferdinand II.

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  • The Agrigentines won it back in 309, but it soon fell under the power of Agathocles.

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  • He was back in Johannesburg in December 1903, and had to consider the crisis in the gold-mining industry caused by the shortage of native labour.

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  • By daybreak on the 74th, the anniversary of Elchingen, upwards of 60,000 men stood densely battalions were sent forward, and these, delaying their advance till the fog had sufficiently lifted, were met by French skirmishers, and small columns, who rapidly overlapped their flanks and drove them back in confusion.

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  • The retreat of the front lines involved the following ones in confusion, and presently the whole mass was driven back in considerable disorder.

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  • The Danes captured the stronghold after the escape of the king, but it was won back in 921, and remained in the hands of the crown, passing to William I.

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  • By 1186 he was back in England, where he again held the place of schoolmaster at Dunstable.

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  • Some other observers, however, have not got such good results with a chloride-free diet, and Marishler, Scheel, Limbecx, Dreser and others, dispute Widal's hypothesis of a retention of chlorides as being the cause of oedema, in the case of renal dropsy at all events; they assert that the chlorides are held back in order to keep the osmotic pressure of the fluid, which they assume to have been effused, equal to that of the blood and tissues.

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  • The affair seems to have been well planned up to a certain point, and well executed; but the Athenian van, flushed with a first success, their ranks broken and disordered by a pursuit of the enemy over rough ground, were repulsed with great loss by a body of heavy-armed Boeotians, and driven back in disorder.

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  • The chivalry of France, undisciplined and careless of the lesson of Crecy and Poitiers, was quickly stung into action, and the French mounted men charged, only to be driven back in confusion.

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  • The shrines, altars and oblatory tables are placed at the back in the centre, and there are often other secondary shrines at the sides.

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  • Having thus secured his eastern frontier, Heraclius returned to Constantinople with ample spoils, including the true cross, which in 629 he brought back in person to Jerusalem.

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  • They are all more or less poisonous, paralysing their prey before, or during the act of swallowing; the poison-fangs standing so far back in the mouth, these snakes cannot easily inflict wounds with them on man; moreover, the poison is not very strong and not available in large quantities.

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  • This Old Roman Creed may be traced back in the writings of Bishops Felix and Dionysus (3rd century), and in the writings of Tertullian in the 2nd century.

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  • Like him, he is lame and an outcast for nine years; like him, he is brought back in time of need.

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  • He was back in England in 1343.

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  • When in addition two hussar regiments struck them in flank they were driven back in wild disorder upon Rezonville.

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  • If we go back in imagination to the beginning of the Victorian era and ask what was then known of the history of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, we find ourselves confronted with a startling paucity of knowledge.

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  • In 1551 he was back in Spain, and intrusted with its government.

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  • He took the road for Spain, but turned back in fear of arrest.

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  • This Edmund received in his own day the surname of Crouchback, not, as was afterwards supposed, from a personal deformity, but from having worn a cross upon his back in token of a crusading vow.

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  • Leaving this it expands into the Lake of Horns, having been dammed back in antiquity.

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  • While in its completer form it is thus a doctrine distinctive of modern times, idealism has its roots far back in the history of thought.

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  • How far back in prehistoric times this system has been practised it is impossible to say, but in China it is said to have existed 3000 years before Christ,' and in Greek literature it is treated even in the most ancient writings as well-known belief.

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  • But if the fork has, say, rather greater frequency, the hole in the wheel comes round at the end of the two seconds before the bead has quite come into position, and the two flashes appear gradually to move back in the opposite way to the pendulum.

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  • The former, besides embodying catechetical instruction in Christian conduct (the "Two Ways"), which goes back in substance to the early apostolic age and is embodied also in "Barnabas," depicts in outline the fundamental usages of church life as practised in some conservative region (probably within Syria) about the last quarter of the 1st century and perhaps even later.

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  • Sumner now came into action, and overhaste involved him in a catastrophe, his troops being attacked in front and flank and driven back in great confusion with nearly half their number killed and wounded; and their retreat involved the gallant remnants of Mansfield's corps.

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  • Since far back in the colonial era, no minister, preacher, or priest The General Assembly regularly elected the governor during the period 1776-1838.

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  • A little later, during his temporary absence in England, his followers on the island were reduced to submission; but in 1644, while the Civil War in England was in progress, he was back in the province assisting Richard Ingle, a pirate who claimed to be acting in the interest of parliament, in raising an insurrection which deprived Governor Calvert of his office for about a year and a half.

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  • Thus all recent discovery tends to carry the centres of origin and of dispersal of all animal types farther and farther back in geological time.

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  • Bloch, thought he could trace it back in England to the reign of James I., whilst other authors fix the date at 1691.

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  • The Othonians, though taken at a disadvantage, fought desperately, but were finally forced to fall back in disorder upon their camp at Bedriacum.

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  • In April 1399, some three months after quitting the capital of Mahmud Toghluk, Timur was back in his own capital beyond the Oxus.

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  • In jumping an ordinary hedge or ditch at moderate speed, there is of course a moment of time during which the horse is on his hind legs, and in theory the rider should then lean forward, but, in practice, this position is so momentary, and the lash out of the hind legs in the spring is so powerful, that it is best not to lean forward at all, because of the difficulty, if not impossibility, of getting back in time for the reverse movement, when the rider should be preparing to render the horse some assistance with the bridle as his feet touch the ground.

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  • Several of the ranges ascend abruptly from the sea; their base is cut back in high cliffs; the Sierra Santa Lucia, south of San Francisco, is a range of this kind; its seaward slope is almost uninhabitable.

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  • The free edge of the left half of the mantle-skirt b is represented as a little contracted in order to show the exactly similar free edge of the right half of the mantle-skirt c. These edges are not attached to, although they touch, one another; each flap (right or left) can be freely thrown back in the way carried out in fig.

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  • They are generally but sparingly distributed over the earth's surface and can be traced back in time to the early Jurassic epoch.

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  • His visit to Sweden was, however, interrupted by the serious news from France, and on the 29th he was back in Paris.

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  • In Domesday Book the heavy plough with eight oxen seems to be universal, and it can be traced back in Kent to the beginning of the 9th century.

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  • One of Sufug's widows had fled to her Tai kindred in Central Arabia with her youngest son Faris; but when he grew up she brought him back in the seventies, and he immediately attracted a great following.

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  • The broken roots should be cut back to fresh wood, and the tops should be headed back in proportion.

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  • It was discovered and explored by Sir George Back in 1834.

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  • The disintegrated ground is then brought back in the trucks and fed through perforated cylinders into the washing pans; the hard blue which has resisted disintegration on the floors, and the lumps which are too big to pass the cylindrical sieves, are crushed before going to the pans.

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  • Northward and far back in the foot-hills is the Ptolemaic temple of Deir el Medina, and beyond under the cliffs of Deir el Bahri the terrace temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the walls of which are adorned with scenes from her expedition to Puoni (Somaliland) in search of incense trees, and many other subjects.

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  • The old monastic orders had had attached to their abbeys confraternities of lay men and women, going back in some cases to the 8th century.

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  • He came back in 1233 from his crusade to suppress a revolt of the eastern cities, which seem to have been aiming at republican independence.

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  • The brigade was forced back in disorder, and the naval guns, which had been left behind, were temporarily captured.

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  • Stanley went back in May to pick up his belated rearguard,leaving Mounteney Jephson and a small escort to accompany Emin round his province.

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  • Himself a Roman Catholic of birth and genius, unfairly kept back in the race of life, he devoted his heart and soul to the cause, and his character and antecedents made him the champion who ultimately assured its triumph.

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  • The site of the old city resembles a whale's back in shape; it slopes gently to its western extremity at Punta Sarandi and to the water's edge on either side.

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  • We have, then, as evidence for the earliest period, the simple pylon-tombs, which belong to the pre-Hellenic age; how far back in this stage the Nabataean settlement goes we do no.t know, but not farther than the 6th century B.C. A period follows in which the dominant civilization combines Greek, Egyptian and Syrian elements, clearly pointing to the age of the Ptolemies.

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  • The Eastern Question, though its roots are set far back in history - in the ancient contest between the political and intellectual ideals of Greece and Asia, and in the perennial rivalry of the powers for the control of the great trade routes to the East - dates in its modern sense from the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji in 1774, which marked the definitive establishment of Russia as a Black Sea power and formed the basis of her special claims to interfere in the affairs of the Ottoman empire.

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  • Many prisoners were taken, and the second line, which was withdrawn in accordance with the general instructions given by Cadorna, came back in some disorder.

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  • The Roma Bde., or rather what was left of it, was coming back in the Vallarsa, and Col Santo had been evacuated by the territorials, while the command of the sector had lost touch with the Alpine battalions.

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  • Soon he was back in Switzerland, and by 1606 in Frankfort, earning his living by preparing and correcting books for the press.

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  • The Indians were prominent in early Californian history, but their progress toward their present insignificance began far back in the Spanish period.

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  • In the vault he finds the corpse of Grendel; he cuts off the head, and brings it back in triumph.

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  • He was here arrested and brought back in chains to Constance, where he was examined by judges appointed by the council.

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  • German scholars made their way to Lombard and Tuscan lecture-rooms, bringing back in Ger- the methods of the humanists.

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  • His main work was now really done; for the parliament of 1567 made Moray regent, and Knox was only too glad to have his old friend back in power, though they seem to have differed on the question whether the queen should be allowed to pass into retirement without trial for her husband's death, as they had differed all along on the question of tolerating her private religion.

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  • The hymns are short poems going back in part to the days of Prudentius, Synesius, Gregory of Nazianzus and Ambrose (4th and 5th centuries), but mainly the work of medieval authors.

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  • In 1818, when he was created a baronet, he was commissioned by the British government to examine the papyri of Herculaneum in the Neapolitan museum, and he did not arrive back in England till June 1820.

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  • In 1292 the men of Zurich were beaten back in an attempt to take the town.

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  • The great variety of the rocks which meet the sea along the south of Cornwall and Devon has led to the formation of a singularly picturesque coast - the headlands being carved from the hardest igneous rocks, the bays cut back in the softer Devonian strata, The fjord-like inlets of Falmouth, Plymouth and Dartmouth are splendid natural harbours, which would have developed great commercial ports but for their remoteness from the centres of commerce and manufactures.

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  • There, on the sandy bank of the river, at a spot where later piety erected a dagaba (a solid dome-shaped relic shrine), he cuts off with his sword his long flowing locks, and, taking off his ornaments, sends them and the horse back in charge of the unwilling Channa to Kapilavastu.

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  • By this means the head of pressure in the boreholes tending to hold the water back in the rock is reduced, and the supply consequently increased; but when the cost of maintenance is included, the increased supply from the adoption of this method rarely justifies expectations.

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  • In the latter part of the 19th century, however, this state of things began to be greatly modified owing to the strong Polish national movement which threatened to drive back the boundaries of Germanism in the eastern provinces of Prussia, as they had already been driven back in Bohemia.

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  • Many of the clergy who had hitherto supported the baronial cause drew back in dismay at the popes attitude.

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  • Southern goods hitherto had come to Southampton or Sandwich invariably in Venetian carracks, which took back in return English wool and metals.

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  • He is sent back in disgrace, punished by solitude and plain bread, presently repents, reforms and is killed by kindness.

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  • In 1816 by the treaty of Segauli the Nepal tarai was ceded to the British, but was given back in 1860.

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  • The genital apertures are median and placed far back in the series of somites, viz.

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  • After his first stay in Norway he came back in 1271, with the new Norse law-book, and served a second time as lawman.

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  • Cometary records of a vague kind go back in China to 2296 B.C.; they are intelligible and trustworthy from 611 B.C. onward.

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  • Germany, to stem which Pitt, back in power, appealed once more to an Anglo-Austro-Russian coalition against this new Charlemagne, who was trying to renew the old Empire, who was mastering France, Italy and Germany; who finally on the 2nd of December 1804 placed the imperial crown upon his head, after receiving the iron crown of the Lombard kings, and made Pius VII.

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  • Thaddeus of Suessa was hacked to pieces by the mob; the imperial crown was placed in mockery on the head of a hunch-backed beggar, who was carried back in triumph into the city.

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  • The high development of the terrestrial flora in Devonian times renders it probable that land-plants existed far back in the Silurian ages, or still earlier.

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  • According to our present knowledge, the Ecaudata can be traced about as far back in time as the Caudata.

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  • She returned to France in 1895, and in 1902 was back in London.

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  • Alex leaned back in his office chair, running hands through his hair.

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  • I'll be back in a little while.

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  • Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, watching Alex.

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  • Smiling, he shoved them back in the envelope and handed it to Carmen.

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  • Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, his attention lost in thought.

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  • Talon stood and threw his head back in a booming laugh of triumph, until Dusty launched at him and knocked him off his feet.

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  • She lifted her head from his chest, surprised to find them back in the cottage.

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  • They want me back in the immortal realm to help them battle the Others.

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  • Why would whoever switched the bones hide the real ones back in the trunk—in a place where they were sure to be discovered?

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  • Lydia Larkin was seated at a desk in the drab outer room, looking as pensive as Fred O'Connor back in his cell.

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  • Martha bore no scars from her hectic July adventure and when news came that mother Patsy was back in the clink, she accepted it without reservation.

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  • Didn't think deities took orders from half-breeds, Tamer said, shoving the phone back in his pocket.

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  • Might help get you back in the Dark One.s favor, but I.m here for Darkyn only.

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  • One minute she's babbling like a spring brook; the next second it's back in the shell.

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  • As the two stepped back in retreat, Frederick spoke, Your Excellence, if Victor cannot be destroyed, he will surely exact vengeance on this pair.

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  • He rocked back in his chair and added, There was a little shindig for the marketing guy—Fletch Brunell.

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  • Dean stopped by the office later in the afternoon to clean up a few details as he wouldn't be back in the office for two days— tomorrow, the safe house, Thursday a day off.

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  • They didn't even take time to put the screws back in.

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  • You wanted to know what was happening back in Parkside—if there was any mention of the money or Byrne reporting it.

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  • Then I said I'd turn the bags in, back in Scranton—told him I had a lawyer friend or something.

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  • She was back in her element now.

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  • Today they would be back in their element – Alex in control.

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  • And my cousins, and now –" "I can toss you back in bed and wear you out until you calm down," he interrupted.

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  • Some 3,000 exhibitors gather for one of the biggest trips back in time at a weekend of motoring nostalgia.

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  • He came to install an air conditioner in our home back in the 1960s.

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  • With its winding alleys intricately laced between cool squares, stepping in to Middle Temple really is like stepping back in time.

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  • After tea, Sue and I watch the film apocalypse Now which we recorded back in January.

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  • I thought nothing of it and sat back in my seat, overlooking the airport apron.

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  • Article continues I remember the odd assortment of presenters back in the 1980s.

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  • The chassis, now further back in the workshop, showing the refitted crank axle.

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  • He was a quality full back in the World Cup right now you'd swap him for almost anyone.

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  • The hidden backdoors allow easy access any time the attacker wants back in.

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  • From the opening notes of Howe's acoustic guitar and Squire's growling bass, this is Yes back in top form.

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  • Stay tuned for news on the release of Ransom Notes and we'll be back in October with some brand new baby belles!

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  • Come back in April or May to see the spectacular apple blossom.

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  • We left London around midnight arriving back in Derby to purchase the Sunday newspapers at the station bookstall.

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  • Or I could back in the glorious days of the dot.com boom.

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  • At 11am and 1pm we crack the bubbly for midnight back in NZ and Oz, then party on well into the afternoon.

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  • Her gray hair was invariably tied back in the tight bun whence came her sobriquet.

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  • Use more enchanted learning books Do the dolphin model put the spanish cd back in the car.

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  • Even back in my day, few men weren't turned on by a couple of lasses in a steamy clinch.

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  • And there, at the back in a white coat and holding a clipboard, was Eve.

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  • Meanwhile, back in Barcelona, Do Lai lies comatose on a guarded hospital room.

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  • However, there is no turning back in our journey toward full ecclesial communion.

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