168 Words to use with backing

Finally the Colonel and the latter quarrel, and go out in the back yard to fight, where the Private is wounded in the arm.

Ruby and Essie and Charley are going to meet us in the minister's back parlor at ten sharp in the morning.

Groups of dark objects became suddenly illuminated, and here a portion of the throng might be seen beneath a brightness like that produced by a bonfire, while all the back-ground of persons and faces were gliding about in a darkness that almost swallowed up a human figure.

Having been introduced to the big, fair-haired man in a rough tweed suit, who was apparently directing the inquiries into the affair, he took me eagerly into a small back room and began to question me.

" "You can't?" says Mr. Cuff, laying hold of that document (in which many words were scratched out, many were misspelt, on which had been spent I don't know how much thought, and labour, and tears; for the poor fellow was writing to his mother, who was fond of him, although she was a grocer's wife, and lived in a back parlour in Thames Street).

While she was sitting on the curb stone, Forrest came out of the yard by the back gate and saw her.

The grassy plain gradually extended to a greater breadth, and the back country was so nearly level that it scarcely rose above the grassy horizon, while to the south the country was so level that the clumps of bushes appeared like islands, and the grassy plain extended to the horizon.

Cartwright's face hardened when he saw Mrs. Seaton, and then he noted Hyslop in a back row.

This circumstance showed that the murderer must have made his egress at least through the valet's chamber, and by the back-stairs.

Behind a glass partition one perceived the dim back shop, which served as kitchen and dining-room and bedchamber, and which received only a little air from a damp inner yard which suggested a sewer shaft.

" "Lord!" cried the Waggoner with a sudden, great laugh, "you don't owe me nothin' for that,not nohow,I owe you one for a knocking of me into that ditch, back yonder, though, to be sure, I did give ye one or two good 'uns, didn't I?"

For after both had shed their winter coats, the speckled heifer was as pretty a two-year-old as ever roamed the Nueces valley or drank out of its river, and the line-back steer had many rivals.

"Look here, aunt, you know very well that prairie fire is met with a back-fire."

The assassin escaped over a drain into a back-street; but having been recognised, was subsequently captured.

" "Folks have hinted I'm getting a back-number," Cartwright remarked.

When your mind requires to be refreshed by change of occupation, Thomas Pinch will instruct you in the art of surveying the back-garden, or in ascertaining the dead level of the road between this house and the finger-post, or in any other practical and pleasing pursuit.

First I found sticks and coal, and lighted a fire; then, whilst my fire was burning up, I cleared the table, carried the dirty plates and cups into the small back kitchen, found a tablecloth and a clean cup and saucer, and filled the kettle.

If there is any money left, I should suggest new sills to the back doors and those in the shed.

The service of fear and reverence, which Catholicism regards as the basis and back-bone of love, is held to be abject and unworthyalmost sinful.

The loin wide, back ribs deep and long, a slight prominence over the croup.

Nothing now remained but to consume the flesh and bones; and for this purpose the fire was brightly stirred until two hours after midnight; when a coarse and heavy back-wall, composed of rock and clay, covered the fire and the remains of George.

The breakers hurling themselves in wild abandon against the rocks sent their back-wash of tumbling peaks to our very bilges.

This manoeuvre which, in the language of the course, would have been called "taking the track," had the additional advantage of throwing upon those who followed some trifling impediment from the back-water.

In geography there is still much to be desired; and a careful and undeviating use of the back-board, for four hours daily during the next three years is recommended as necessary to the acquirement of that dignified deportment and carriage so requisite for every young lady of fashion.

She was glad to turn out early next morning and go with Phil to do the "back-ache" portage, because it took her away from any likelihood of an encounter with Mary, who would probably be brimming over with happiness.

168 Words to use with  backing