He were not best in my hearing; Let him do what he will behind my Back.

They trussed me with ropes, binding my hands cruelly behind my back, and swathing my legs till not a muscle could move.

He treated me most civilly, despite some whisperings which went on behind my back, and shortly after sent me a courteous invitation to serve on his staff.

They proved prompt and capable enough, although I was eyed with some curiosity when I went forward, and, no doubt was very thoroughly discussed behind my back.

"Could you ever afford to ignore me and intrigue behind my back?" "I am the least intriguing person of your acquaintance, Marcia," he answered, rising because the hard mosaic pavement hurt his knee, and the position made him feel undignified.

After you left us in the study I saw his eyes watching the door while we talked, and knew from his look that something to please him had happened behind my back.

The cynics say that every rose Is guarded by a thorn which grows To spoil our posies; But I no pleasure therefore lack; I keep my hands behind my back When smelling roses.

Moving cautiously I lifted my feet, and by stretching my arms cautiously down, still holding them behind my back, I untied one shoe.

The first woman that ever said, or that ever thought so of me, that's my comfort, thought I!But this, (spoken of to her uncle's friend, behind my back,) helps to heap up thy already-too-full measure, dearest!It is down in my vellum-book.

I know that behind my back he invariably referred to me as "Ma"; but as he openly addressed the unconscious nun as "you giddy old girl," "Ma" might almost be termed respectful, and I think our regard was mutual.

Don't you go giving another five pounds out of your pocket-money behind my back, ma'am.

Do you think I don't know what name I go by, behind my back?

And thou, like a snake in the grass, hast been sticking out thy tongue behind my back.

I had attacked and defended my own conduct down to that hour, when I ought to have been formulating its logical conclusion, and during my unprofitable deliberations the night had aged and altered (as it were) behind my back.

but I know that, as I drew the cangiar, the basest and the slyest of all the devils was whispering me, tongue in cheek: 'Kill, killand be merry.' With excruciating slowness, like a crawling glacier, tender as a nerve of the touching leaves, I moved, I stole, obliquely toward her through the wall of bush, the knife behind my back.

Then you will say: 'Let all the people be summoned and let them crowd into the wigwam in which I lie,' and when they have all come and stand thick about your bed, you will say, 'Now raise me into a sitting position and put the pillows thick behind my back and head that I may lean against them.'

"Thenmy hands being tied behind my back you will remember, like thisit was easy enough for him to pull me over on my facelike this... and rub my face in the mud....

I jumped into one at hazard, and the conductor put his arm behind my back to support me.

"I've called this meeting in order to give you a chance to say to my face some of the things you are saying behind my back.

I had a queer feeling that whenever I wasn't looking at them straight they went askew, and moved about, and played a noiseless puss-in-the-corner behind my back.

The Maid will ask her Mistress (tho' I am by) whether the Gentleman is ready to go to Dinner, as the Mistress (who is indeed an excellent Housewife) scolds at the Servants as heartily before my Face as behind my Back.

Jimmie sat by, smoking and encouraging me, as I paced up and down the room with my hands behind my back, giving vent to sentences which, when copied down in Mrs. Jimmie's ladylike handwriting, made Jimmie scream with joy.

The women folk in the room behind my back were now up and dressed.

I approached on tiptoe, breathlessly, with the basket behind my back and the half chicken extended as a peaceable card of introduction.

Some one has lied behind my back.