"Back down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... catch sight of that most charming of tropical trees, the tree-fern, with its lovely star-shaped crown, like a beautiful, dainty work of art in the midst of the uncultivated wilderness. As if in a dream we row back down stream, and like dream-pictures all the various green shapes of the ...
— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser
... tail feathers and use them to brace themselves when they are climbing a tree. They have become so dependent on them that they don't dare move about on the trunk of a tree without using them. If they want to come down a tree they have to back down. ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... did not like this arrangement, but having challenged Buffalo Bill to play, and given him the choice of the stakes, he dared not back down, ...
— Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. - Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood • Prentiss Ingraham
... confidence, and made him pluck up his own waning courage. These girls depended upon him, and he was not the boy to back down before even ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson
... lives?" said Canning, also glancing back down the dingy street. "I thought somebody said he'd come into money from ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
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