306 Verbs to Use for the Word backing

There was a shrill scream, and, as the smoke cleared away, I saw that it had turned on its back, and was writhing, feebly.

As soon as twins were born, they would break the babies' backs and stuff the little bodies into a jar made out of a big gourd.

As he limped along he was forced to pause every now and again and set down the carpet-bag, sometimes to rub his back, sometimes to seat himself on a stump and nurse for a few moments one of those demon-possessed feet.

Then once more the Friar bent his back, and, Robin having mounted upon it, he stepped sturdily into the water and so strode onward, splashing in the shoal, and breaking all the smooth surface into ever- widening rings.

As soon as I saw my enemy's back, I left my station, and never played the ghost again.

And Ulysses leaned his back against a pillar from which certain lamps hung which gave light to the dancers, and he made show of watching the dancers, but very different thoughts were in his head.

"By God, Eagen," he squeaked, "can you think of anything more to be done?" I straightened my back and laughed.

They would push, they would shove, they would "boost," they would arch both their straight backs as pedestals for her tiptoe; and at the same time, by some sweet prodigy of mechanics, she would pull them up and up with her.

Put the water into a basin, and, after combing out the hair from the brushes, dip them, bristles downwards, into the water and out again, keeping the backs and handles as free from the water as possible.

He grasped the back of his chair with trembling hand.

Having discovered their design, he set his back against a rock and resolved to sell his life dearly.

"Ain't you heard the dog season's over?" "Well, don't you count on livin' to the next?" The man pushed his slouch over his eyes and scratched the back of his head.

Too soon their rejoicings and empty their boast, For the Town fellows very soon had them on toast; And the bystanders sighed as they saw frequently The ball pass the "back" of our ancient Ronleigh.

For a moment the visitor fancied himself alone and glanced round the spacious room, feeling interested in its adornments, the lofty windows of old stained glass, the hangings of old Genoese velvet and brocaded silk, the oak bookcases showing the highly ornamented backs of the volumes they contained; the tables laden with bibelots, bronzes, marbles, goldsmith's work, glass work, and the famous collection of modern pewter-work.

The moonlight touched the back of the car in front, but Lister was in the gloom, and when the vestibule door opposite opened he was annoyed.

She removed, with deft fingers, a damp and clinging bandage from about Patricia's head, and patted the back of Patricia's hand, placidly.

The little man with the cold blue eyes and the gray-blond hair stroked his back without fear.

This tiny trap-door can be seen, by the aid of a mirror, if we open the mouth wide and press down the back of the tongue with the handle of a spoon (Figs. 46, 84, and 85).

[Har. unseen, puts up the back of his Calash, and whips off his Frock, and goes to drive on.

They threw him on a table, where he lay, horrible to be seen, his coat torn down the back, his stockings falling over his heels, his shirt open and soaking with blood, speechless, for his mouth was filled with splinters of his broken jaw.

A little shiver ran up his back as he thought of what it might be.

They say he even carried old Mrs. Kekewich pick-a-back through the snow.

Take care that the pigeons are quite fresh, and carefully pluck, draw, and wash them; split the backs, rub the birds over with butter, season them with pepper and salt, and broil them over a moderate fire for 1/4 hour or 20 minutes.

He might just as well have examined the back of the doctor's head.

He replied, the way we serve them here is, we cut their backs until they are raw all over, and then salt them.

306 Verbs to Use for the Word  backing