"Turn back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Caribs, and prevent their incursions upon those innocent islanders to whom he had made so many promises of protection. But he fell ill, and for a short time at least was wholly unconscious. The officers in command took occasion of his illness, and of their right to manage the vessels, to turn back to the city of Isabella. He arrived there "as one half dead," and his explorations and discoveries for this voyage were thus brought to an end. To his great delight he found there his brother Bartholomew, whom he had not seen for eight years. Bartholomew had accompanied ...
— The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals • Edward Everett Hale
... causing sickness, a small proa, containing the image of a man and provisioned for a long voyage, is allowed to drift away with wind and tide. As it is being launched, the people cry, "O sickness, go from here; turn back; what do you here in this poor land?" Three days after this ceremony a pig is killed, and part of the flesh is offered to Dudilaa, who lives in the sun. One of the oldest men says, "Old sir, I beseech you make well the grand-children, ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... that she can still be," said the old lady. "She will turn back again, my dear. Never fear. I don't think I could die easy if I did not believe ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... would be their last. Would the infantry never come? Would there be any sense in just sitting there until a German shell annihilated them if the infantry never arrived? Had they been pushed back by a German rush? Should he take it upon himself to turn back? McKnutt's ...
— Life in a Tank • Richard Haigh
... looking at the lake, "we must turn back, I guess, for there is neither a bridge nor a boat to take us across ...
— Little Wizard Stories of Oz • L. Frank Baum
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