The room he gave me was at an angle in one of the crookings of the corridor, and pointing me to the door he went pottering away, still without a word or a look behind him.
At his order some of the others pulled the twain apart, reluctantly, I fancied; and when the thing was done the old man caught up his rifle and strode away in blackest wrath without a look behind him.
We were not over-quiet about it, but the captain of horse was too hot upon his own devil's business to look behind him.
The masked waterman glanced a look behind as if to calculate his advantage, and then bending again to his pliant oar he spoke, loud enough to be heard only by him who pressed so hard upon his track.
Gino bowed his head in submission, though he cast a look behind to make sure that none of those agents, whom his master set so openly at defiance, were within ear-shot.
No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind!
And often with a faded eye We look behind, and send a sigh Towards that merry ground!
When I had gone a little way I chanced to look behind me, and saw the redoubtable Alphonse staggering along with white face and trembling knees, and his rifle, which was at full cock, pointed directly at the small of my back.
So straight did she gaze thereat that she never thought to look behind her.
Then they went on and on till the foal said to him again, "Look behind, and see if Wednesday is still pursuing!
Then they went on still farther, till the foal said again, "Look behind, and see whether Wednesday is still pursuing!
They went on and on, until the foal said again, "Look behind, is Wednesday still pursuing?
They trotted on and on, and at last the foal said to him, "Look behind, and see whether Wednesday is not pursuing.
There was now a moment when those who remained could breathe, and dared to look behind them.
Recovering his legs as soon as possible, he turned to look behind him.
Mariners have few occasions to look behind them, while a hundred watchful eyes are usually turned ahead, more especially when running near rocks and shoals.
Spike now ventured to look behind him, commanding an experienced hand to take the helm.
Even as he spoke, he repeatedly turned to look behind, and it was evident that the guilty man was battling with his fears.
I have sometimes wondered at Lot in this particular; his wife looked behind her, and died immediately, but let what would become of her, Lot would not so much as look behind him to see her.
His wife looked behind her, and died immediately; but he would not so much as look behind him to see her.
The mad flight continued on the 9th and 10th, a stampede in which no one turned to look behind him.
But when he had advanced another hundred paces Pache evidently had no idea there was anyone near, for he began to hurry forward at a swift gait, not so much as casting a look behind.
Be not afraid; but above all things, do not turn your head to look behind you; for in that instant you will be changed into such a black stone as those you see, which are all youths who have failed in this enterprise.
The sleigh flew on up the hill, but she turned once more to look behind her, and he still had his hat in his hand, the snowflakes falling on his bared head.
Twice he paused to look behind him, and when he reached the corner of the street he stopped for some time to survey the Governor's house opposite.
And leaping on Ronald was away for the ferry with never so much as a look behind, leaving me standing in the road.
But at last the Horse said again: "Look behind you!
But still the Horse begged him to look behind him, and then he saw a troop like a whole army behind him, and they glistened in the sunbeams.
Illustration: But still the Horse begged him to look behind him.
Then he gave a howl, as if a wagon had run over his tail, and tumbled out of that sitting room and set out for home without once stopping to look behind him.
Being so little, he squeezed through a small hole in the back of the pen, and then ran away very fast, without stopping to look behind.
Before he slackened speed he tried tolook behind to reconnoitre.
Morgan was too old a fighter to look behind him at a critical moment.
More than once he tried to look behind, and he dashed his hand across his red forehead.
When on the second thwart from aft, and about to take her seat, the boatswain cast a look behind him, and Spike put the helm down.
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