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Move back   /muv bæk/   Listen
Move back

verb
1.
Pull back or move away or backward.  Synonyms: draw back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw.  "The limo pulled away from the curb"  Antonym: advance.



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"Move back" Quotes from Famous Books



... a shilling at the bottom of it, then move back until you quite lose sight of the coin. Ask some one to pour some clean cold water gently into the cup, and, as it fills, the refraction of the water will apparently reduce the depth of the cup, and ...
— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

... "Let's move back into the woods a little further, and eat some dinner," said Frank; and he turned to walk away, and felt for the haversack the negro woman had given him. But it seemed that he was destined to disappointment, for ...
— Frank on a Gun-Boat • Harry Castlemon

... history. There is a strategy in Providence. Nations, like individuals, have their crisis hours. Through events God makes all society plastic, and then raises up some great man to stamp his image and superscription upon the nation's hot and glowing heart. As scholars move back along the pathway of history, they discern in each great epoch these strategic conditions. How opportune the ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis

... of you settling down into a rut before it happened, and the old place needed a thorough going over anyhow. You know you couldn't have afforded it, Jerry, if it hadn't been for the fire insurance money coming in so handy like. Now, you'll all move back the first part of the winter, with the new furnace set up, and no cracks for the wind to whistle through. Jean will be started off on her path of glory, and I don't think Kit's a mite too young to be fluttering her wings a bit. Land alive, Elizabeth, you ought to be so thankful that you've ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... is not the word: it burns so hot and steady with me. The Countess came out on the first landing; she saw what was happening. When her husband was led out, she asked permission to embrace him. The officer consented, but she had to say to him, 'Move back,' and then, with her lips to her husband's cheek, 'Betray no more of them!' she whispered. Count Branciani started. Now he understood what she had done, and why she had done it. 'Ask for the charge that makes me a prisoner,' he said. Her husband's ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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