The knowledge of it goes back to a remote period, for its name, like that of soma, is found in the Avesta in the form of hura.
The Avestan ceremony of investing the boy of fifteen with a sacred cord upon his admission into the Zoroastrian community shows that it goes back to Indo-Iranian times.
One at least of the names indicates that the ship goes back to the days when as yet the gods had not assumed human forms; the ship of Bau is still that of "the holy cow.
The conception of a divine messenger or angel who carried the orders of the higher god from heaven to earth and interpreted his will to men, goes back to an early period in the history of Babylonian religion.
Then he goes back to his theory that everything happens by chance.
He goes back to Swindon apparently strengthened and in his former health and energy.
Then he goes back to Swindon, but not, for the present, to Coate.
The Hildebrandslied, which is the only extant piece of early poetry, goes back at all events to the eighth century.
We have now seen that Homeric poetry goes back to the age of kingship and that it is not of popular origin (Stage III), but in all probability a product of court life.
It is a serious objection to this latter view that the well-known genealogy in which the descent of Ion, as well as Aiolos, is traced from Hellen, goes back at least two or three centuries before the time of Herodotus.
He says he's took a day off to visit us, an' aims to lay waste the camp some before he goes back.
Then he goes back to the window, and again looks out.
Turning upon his heel he goes back to the couch, drops down upon it with a yawn, and composes himself to sleep.
Taking the bottle from the old man's hand, he goes back to the table, seats himself on the chair recently occupied by the elder Francoise, motioning that worthy to occupy the only remaining chair.
She moves away and looking down at the floor between door and couch, as though seeing something there; shudders; covers her eyes; goes back to the couch and down again just as before, to stare at the embers.
Hiding them with his sleeve, he goes back to the window, where he again stands hesitating.
He gets up from the chair, and wiping the sweat from his brow, goes back to his seat.
Hospitium, in its technical sense, goes back to a time when there were no international relations, to the time when stranger and enemy were not merely synonymous words, but absolutely the same word.
Whence the Romans got it we do not know, but it goes back to the very earliest time of which tradition tells, and was the characteristic garment of the Romans for more than a thousand years.
I might miss somethin',' 'n' he goes back to where the crowd is.
But Harms won't take a chance, so I goes back to the track 'n' I was sore.
I leaves him there and I goes back to my room, after telephoning to 'Lisses Petty that something important has come up at our place which will detain me away from him for the time being.
Then he goes back to a former subject, and they sit over their dessert until dusk, when they adjourn to the drawing-room opposite, where the lamps are lighted.
He goes back to their first waltz; what is it that has fallen between and made a little coldness?
He goes back, folds up the papers, and places them carefully in his breast-pocket, takes his hat and walks slowly out, wondering if his father really trusted this man.
And this custom of decorating the tree with actual gold goes back in history until we can meet it coming down to us in the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece and in that of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goes back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
