aback
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Now peace is won And all strife done, And in our hands The fame of lands Aback we bear To the dale the dear, And the Fathers lie Made glad thereby.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
When he was ware of this, Aback he start, and thought it was amiss; For well he wist a woman hath no beard.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
And this is he, this is the man thou oft hast heard foretold, Augustus Cæsar, sprung from God to bring the age of gold Aback unto the Latin fields, where Saturn once was king.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
Aback, fellows, and give me room, Or I shall make you to avoid soon!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
P. 14, ABOX, 'Brace-abox' amended to Brace Aback.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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