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Example sentences for "her back"

  • Amid the Cookeran Lake still wanders the woman who arrived late at the big Boorah, having lost her children one by one on the track, arriving at last with only her dead baby in the net at her back.

  • These spirit-bees had entered Adelaide and secreted some wax on her liver; their bites, Guadgee said, were on her back.

  • She wanders through these forests and round the lake, the dead baby still in the goolay on her back, and sometimes her voice is heard mingling with the voices of the forest; and as the shadows fall, she may be seen flitting past, they say.

  • The lady stood some yards away, her back toward me.

  • To judge by her back, the spotted creature must have been climbing a tree when the other sprang upon her.

  • But she too had heard the cry, and forgetting the child on her back, threw herself at the door; the boy was dashed against it, and fell senseless.

  • The leopardess, to avoid knocking him down, pulled herself up so suddenly that she went rolling over and over: when she recovered her feet she found the child on her back.

  • She was lying on her back, and smiling at her two hands, which she held up in front of her.

  • In the morning she had heard the voice of Mr. Scales from the showroom--that voice whose even distant murmur caused creepings of the skin in her back.

  • And as he saw her lying on her back, with flushed features, her hair disarranged, and only the grace of the silk ribbons of her matinee to mitigate the melancholy repulsiveness of her surroundings, that anxiety seemed to deepen.

  • Don't put out your pipe," she said to old Grandfather Doby, rising totteringly respectful from his chimney-side chair.

  • Betty herself bent over the flower as she might have bent over a child.

  • See--adjustable to hold with perfect ease an envelope, an index card, or a strip of paper no wider than a postage stamp.

  • Liubka was sleeping on her back, with one bare arm stretched out along the body, and the other on her breast.

  • The she-wolf herself was only able to go away slowly, but she was in such concern about the fox that she took him on her back, and slowly carried him perfectly safe and sound to her house.

  • The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears.

  • Then she bolted the upper half of the door fast, but unhinged the lower door, and took it on her back, believing that when she had placed the door in security the house must be well taken care of.

  • Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell.

  • He will tell you just how long that brawny harlot, passing on the opposite side, will last, and what the few rags on her back will be worth when she is "shoved into Potters' Field.

  • She never combed her hair, and what few rags she had on her back hung in filth.

  • Ranaway, a negro woman, named Maria, some scars on her back occasioned by the whip.

  • Committed to jail as a runaway, a negro woman named Martha, 17 or 18 years of age, has numerous scars of the whip on her back.

  • Her back's broken, Jim, no doubt about it," said Miss Toland grimly.

  • Then she turned on her back again, and said something sharply to herself in a whisper once or twice, and after that the moaning "Oh, oh, oh!

  • Anna was asleep in the upper bed, lying flat on her back, with her lovely hair falling loosely about her flushed little face.

  • And she undid the bundle at her back, and laying the two babes down on the road, showed that the elder of them was in truth in a fearful state.

  • And then, having rearranged her burden on her back, she prepared again to start.

  • Murty Brien, plaze yer honor;" and the woman ducked a curtsey with the heavy load of two children on her back.

  • Then, not feeling comfortable, she undid it, spread it out and lay down upon it at full length on her back, with both arms under her head and her legs stretched out.

  • Madame Caravan left off rubbing, turned round pulled her cap up, as it had fallen quite on to her back, and said with trembling lips: "Ah!

  • Ten paces in front of him lay stretched on her back on the moss a little girl, perfectly nude, her face covered with a handkerchief.

  • A kind of rattle was heard in her throat, then she lay on her back motionless, dead.

  • She accompanied Rosalie to the door and when Rosalie was a little down the passage sharply called her back.

  • She stood still and said with her back to Rosalie, "I've got a longing here.

  • So she went in to her mistress and found her lying on her back insensible, with the blood running down to the calves of her legs, whereupon she took a kerchief and wiped away the blood and lay by her that night.

  • Then he arose and, baring his brand looked right and left, but he saw no one save the old woman sprawling on her back, and said to himself, "He lied not who named thee Lady of Calamities!

  • So she told her what had passed and how she had found her, lying on her back, with the blood running down, wherefore she knew that King Omar bin al-Nu'uman had lain with her and had undone her and taken his will of her.

  • The moment the mare had finished her oats she bridled her, led her out, and sprang on her back; where sitting as on a pillion, she rode quietly out of the farm-close.

  • Just as she sprang on her back, the door opened, and faces looked peering out; whereupon with a cut or two she encouraged a few wild gambols, so that all the trouble seemed to have been with the mare.

  • Kirsty petted and stroked her, gave her two or three handfuls of oats, and while she was eating strapped a cloth on her back: there was no side-saddle about the farm.

  • Den de frog he clum on her back an' ontied her, an' she flopped her wings an' started off.

  • Hit wuz mighty hard flyin' wid dat big frog on her back; but Nancy Jane O wuz er flyer, mun, yer hyeard me!

  • The little girl lay on her back, looking up at the cracks in the plaster ceiling and watching the shadows sway and dance as the candle flickered in the gusts of cold air.

  • She had, it is true, a great many relatives, and of course it was settled she should go to some of them till Aunt Frances could take her back.

  • There lay a doll, flat on her back, looking up at them brightly out of her blue eyes.

  • And then Cousin Molly took the hand of the sobbing little girl and led her back to the Lathrop house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    golden hair; her beautiful; her body; her breast; her children; her companions; her desk; her fingers; her forehead; her hands; her house; her left; her maid; her name; her now; her place; her sisters; her that; her the; her voice very low; her white; her window; here made; here shown; here used; hereby declare