"Backing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... showed itself. For three months, during which a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her course, veering suddenly from one tack to another, stopping suddenly, putting on steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one point of the Japanese or American ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne
... sir. She's backing her tops'ls flat against the breeze, and her mains'l's reefed ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... load of fodder might be one of the factors on which the thieves counted. They might have used it to make the auto halt, and the man, or men, on it were probably in collusion with the footpads. There was no doubt about it, the load of hay was coming nearer, backing up instead of moving away. Tom couldn't understand it. He gave a swift glance at the robbers. They had not appeared to notice this, or, if they had, they ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... that years ago I saw, the Snyder, and I said to Mr. Snyder, "Look, it's a sure nut." He said, "Never saw it." He looked at it, examined it, and it's a marvelous nut. I think I have the backing of our friend, Mr. Gilbert Smith. I think he'd back me in saying that that is one of the best nuts in the world, even with ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various
... by Dr. Peters' Company. A struggle took place between the two companies, the German East Africa Company laying claim to the Kilimanjaro district. Again it proved that the Germans had the more effective backing, and, despite objections urged by our Foreign Minister, Lord Rosebery, against the proceedings of German agents in that tract, the question of ownership was referred to the decision of ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose
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