"Draw back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say that, wishing to draw back," replied Nicholl; "but I repeat my question, and I ask, 'How shall ...
— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne
... to masterful man, and if I was born like that and canna help it, O take me up to heaven afore I'm fil't." Grizel repeated it after him until she had it by heart, and even as she said it a strange thing happened, for she began to draw back from Tommy, with a look of terror ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... Alessandria, where the counter orders issued at Charles. Albert's request, after the interview just described, were not obeyed. The garrison 'pronounced' in favour of the Spanish Constitution. It was now impossible to draw back. From Alessandria the revolution spread to the capital. The bulk of the army sympathised with the movement, and relied on the support of the people. The greatest ladies mixed with the crowds which gathered ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... come down from the Panamints to throw a fateful circle above him, and in all his wanderings it had never happened before that an eagle had circled his camp. A superstitious chill made Wunpost shudder and draw back, for the Shoshones had told him that the eagles loved men's battles and came from afar to watch. They had learned in the old days that when one war-party followed another there would later be feasting and blood; and now, when ...
— Wunpost • Dane Coolidge
... colleague taking fright, went forward; never dared to draw back. They had their royal gallows set up on the very spots where Satan had held a Sabbath. People were alarmed thereat, deeming them strongly backed by the arm of royalty. Impeachments hailed about them. The women all came in one long string ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet
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