86 examples of set back in sentences

He made the sign of the cross and set back his stool.

As we went along, houses began to appear here and there, set back from the road among the trees.

(8) Non-co-operation will bring about cessation of all other activities, even working of the Reforms, thus set back the clock of progress.

Both are tied to the stake, and set back to back.

" Then Mesahchie stood up on the barricade and called in by name three dogs which had wandered close,meat and life,which set back the day of reckoning and put despair in the hearts of the Mandell Folk.

The nose should be rough, large, broad, and black, and this colour should extend to the lower lip; its top should be deeply set back, almost between the eyes.

Opinions differ considerably on the colour question; one judge will set back a fawn and put forward a pied dog, whilst others will do the reverse.

BODYThe body should be of moderate length, with shoulders well set back or oblique; back short and level; loins wide, slightly arched, strong and muscular.

The applicant was as young as Lieutenant Claflin, and as good-looking; but he was dirty and unshaven, and his eyes were set back in the sockets, and his fingers twitched at his side.

Inside the poor little house you would find all spick and span, the old floor white and sanded, the few tins and the pewter spoons shining upon the shelf, the brick hearth and jambs aglow with fresh "redding," table and chairs set back in rectangular tidiness.

'Your lateyour late lamented motherI'm afraidshe had unworthy suspicionsI'm sureit was best for all partiesyour father always appreciated' "I set back my chair and stood erect before him.

It was nearly ten o'clock when he set back in the direction of Tête Jaune, Donald accompanying him as far as the moonlit amphitheatre in the forest.

On either side of this road the houses are set back 15 ft., in front of which, along the edge of the pavement, trees of a suitable growth are being planted, as also on all other roads on the estate.

Where the natural capacity for growth is permanently checked by external circumstances, nation and State are stunted and individual growth is set back.

Pare, Arue, and Mahina districts behind us, we were in Papenoo, a straggling village of a few hundred people along the road, the houses, all but the half-dozen stores of the Chinese, set back a hundred yards, and the domestic animals and carts in the front.

This, if accomplished, would have lowered the cost of labor, but its increase of the crops would have depressed staple prices in still greater degree; its unsettling of the slave market would have hurt vested interests; and its infusion of a horde of savage Africans would have set back the progress of the negroes already on hand and have magnified permanently the problems of racial adjustment.

CHAPTER III The Penniman house, white, with green blinds, is set back from the maple-and-elm-shaded street, guarded by a white picket fence.

Moreover, the house which was his quarry was set back several feet from the street, an indentation which would completely hide him from anyone who looked from the street.

Terracethat quaint stretch of old-time houses set back from the street, solemnly windowed, roofed, and pilastered

He felt himself set back; then remembered the delusion under which she lay, and went to dispel itpompously.

The people of the village knew this, and they were very careful not to let any child of ten years or younger, go into the woods where the Dryads were supposed to be; for, if they should chance to be kissed by one of these tree-nymphs, they would be set back so far that they would cease to exist.

The cottage and work-shop of Professor Locke appeared to be set back some little distance from what Haines had called the county road; a grove of tall trees thickened the shadows all about, and it was into these trees that the professor had gone.

When done, cover with a boiled icing and set back in the oven, leaving both doors open to let the icing dry.

When the pie is baked take from the oven just long enough to spread the meringue over the top, and set back for two or three minutes, leaving the oven doors open just the least bit, so as not to have it brown too quickly.

A few moments' pulling brought them to this lake, and Frank, who was seated at the helm, turned the boat's head toward a high point that projected for some distance out into the lake, and behind which a little bay set back into the land.

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