"Fall back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the hope of bequeathing something to posterity; I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood—but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect—that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defence against all imputations. My subject is, then, what I have neither seen, experienced, ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... coast inhabited by a superior race of natives, had vanished. As the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria rounded his course from south to west, and from west to north, so the picture his fancy had painted faded; and he found himself compelled to fall back upon the conception of a mode of transit ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc
... where you are," said Nastasia, seeing him fall back on the couch. "If you are ill, do not go. What is ...
— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne
... I worked at our lessons by ourselves. We always had her mother to "fall back upon," as we said. When we took up the study of Italian in order to be able to read Dante—moved thereto by the attractions of the long volume of Flaxman's illustrations of the 'Divina Commedia'—we had to "fall back" a good deal on Mrs. Arkwright's ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... he assured his guest. "I'm glad you saw those yearlings. There was one reason why that young German stuck it out. He had to. You had your father's money to fall back on, and, I imagine not only that your feet itched, but that your chief weakness lay in that you could afford ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
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