2438 examples of looking back in sentences

That seemed like a very good question to ask, for it would mean that when we look out into space, we are really looking back into time.

He paused with his fingers on the handle, and looking back over his shoulder he said: "Have I made myself quite clear?" Etta was still looking out of the window with hard, angry eyes.

Now, I seldom sleep without looking back at the day, and often have my thoughts turned to Sir George Temple more and Mr. Powis; and when I have remembered that the first had a house and a home, and that the last had neither, it has always seemed to me that he ought to be the one."

Gratton alone; Gratton looking back over his shoulder more often than he quested far ahead; Gratton in a mad attempt to make haste where haste was impossible.

"Well?" demanded Jetson, halting and looking back.

he exclaimed, looking back at Mercy, who stood on the front doorstep, vainly trying to hurry in to explain the strange scene to her mother.

" They stood thus hand in handthe tender mother-eyes upon them: then he turned and went away, looking back tenderly to the last.

"Josephine," he said, looking back, "do you know you are one of the few women in the world I can't even talk to?

" So wrote the great Alfred, looking back over his heroic life.

Then she ran to little Mats without once looking back.

MEMORY LOOKING BACK.

Looking back on the affair now, Mr. CarrollI cannot understand my own weakness.

" While she was speaking she had gone to the door, and she went out without looking back.

This hidden purpose she carried with her, when, at the age of sixteen, she quitted the convent with bitter regret, fearing the strange world, fearing a conventional marriage, and looking back to the pleasant restraints of tutelage, whose thorn hedges are always in blossom when we view them from the dusty ways and traffic of real, responsible life.

She closed the gate without looking back at the weird crêpe-like shadows that draped themselves among the moonlit piles of twisted things.

There was no looking back after that, and I wrote hundreds of articles in Sunaparant to make a vent to my inner feelings.

He opened his eyes widely, terrified, and caught the eye of an old priest in cotta and cassock who was looking back at him over his shoulder.

MICHAEL [looking back] Farewell to you, my Lady, in-the-Moon.

Adam Bede can certainly never come under the class of popular agreeable stories; but those who love power, real humor, and true natural description, will stand by the sturdy carpenter and the living groups you have painted in and about Hayslope.' "Adam Bede did not immediately command that signal success which, looking back to it now, we might have expected for it.

Looking back over twenty-five years, I feel a profound pity for the girl standing at that critical point of life, so utterly, hopelessly ignorant of all that marriage meant, so filled with impossible dreams, so unfitted for the rôle of wife.

Looking back in after years, writers who, like Drayton, had lived through the movement from its very birth, could speak of Sidney as of the author who did first reduce Our tongue from Lyly's writing then in use, and could praise his style as a model of pure English.

In a glade not seventy-five yards away stood a magnificent bull elk, looking back over his shoulder.

So Jonas walked down towards the gate, looking back, and calling, "Franco, Franco, Franco!"

Looking back upon a life that had not been without valor and achievement, he unhesitatingly declared to himself that this return after the grip was the most heroic act he had ever performed.

I can even, on looking back, see him sitting up, very large and still, one thick arm holding me.

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