The door-knob turned under the Boy's hand, and before he could more than draw back, a whiff of winter blew into the room, and a creature stood there such as no man looks to find on his way to an Arctic gold camp.

There's time to draw back, if ye want; but you've brought me the master word, and I'm bound to set you on the road.

Then King, too, began to draw back, slipping quietly and swiftly through the screen of tree and bush, stepping in the tracks he had made coming hither, praying suddenly for further fast-falling snow to hide or obliterate the trail he had made.

She had barely strength to draw back, to pull the canvas closer to the rocks, to strive to hide.

The Elysée will not draw back now.

I checked myself just in time to draw back without being seen by a woman and a tall man moving slowly down the path.

So absorbed was she, so pleased at Tom's appearance, at his polite response to her, she did not observe Miss Smith,did not see Tilly draw back, did not hear her say, "No, I don't care to play, Miss Smith, I want you to play with Will; this is my friend Will Wentworth, Miss Smith," by way of introduction.

Mordup remembered Arthur's counsel that should evil befall, and the battle draw back to the wood, he must charge boldly on his adversaries.

His penetrating curiosity, his wide experience, his practised judgment, rapidly made him one of the most sagacious administrators and wisest legislators that ever guided England in a very critical moment of her history; and when he finally drew up his system of reform there was not a single point of principle in it from which he or his successors found it necessary afterwards to draw back.

"Lean to the right," cries the master, and you obey, but the horse continues his canter, almost a gallop now, when suddenly your wits return to you, you draw back first the right hand and then the left, he begins to trot, and by some miracle you begin to rise, and continue to do it, you do not know exactly how, feeling a delight in it, an exhilarating, exultant sensation as if flying.

you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.

The two young men bowed and separated, Aramis going up the street which led to the Luxembourg, whilst D'Artagnan, finding that it was near noon, took the road to the Carmes-Deschaux, saying to himself, "Decidedly I can't draw back; but at least if I am killed, I shall be killed by a musketeer.

There was something uncanny in the air, which caused the Duchess and her lady instinctively to draw back.

" "Ah, madam, you'll excuse me: but that's the way with that sort of people, just to draw back and draw back, to make a poor young gentleman follow them all the keener, as a trout does a minnow, the faster you spin it.

I think myself that Russia has gone too far to draw back.

"Jervis, why did you not tell me while there was time to draw back?

" "Draw back, gentlemen!"

The people, half-cowed, half-doubting, murmur and draw back.

I can no longer what I would? No longer draw back at my liking?

Do thou draw back the arrow.

I think it may fairly be said that he had done a brave if foolhardy thing; it was certainly to save the boy that he had jumped, and he had given himself a moment's time in which to draw back if he chose, which vastly enhances the merit of the deed.

Draw back your leftso.

Half god, half brute, within the self-same shell, Changers with every hour from dawn till even, Who dream with angels in the gate of heaven, And skirt with curious eyes the brinks of hell, Children of Pan, whom some, the few, love well, But most draw back, and know not what to say, Poor shining angels, whom the hoofs betray, Whose pinions frighten with their goatish smell.

The sergeant gives the wordthe soldiers spring to their feetI draw back into the gloom of the shop-and only Müller remains, smoking his cigarette and lounging against the door-post.

Her power and his idolatry made me jealous, and what I did in a fit of petulance was so fastened on that I could not draw back.