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I have chickened out twice, and I am determined not to back down.

We drove back down the hill, and the driver let me out near the Prado.

That means it probably flew back up as much as a kilometer before coming back down.

“I drop back down to, ‘I got three seasons with Aaron Sorkin,’” he says.

As the film starts, the organ sinks back down below the stage where the musician can be heard and not seen.

She had made up her mind that at the first sign of danger she would turn Nabob and make a dash back down the trail for safety.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

A wood-thrush flitted from a ravine as she and Bub went back down the creek—and she stopped with uplifted face to listen.

I straightened him, and put my coat across his face, and spurred back down the road again and over the gate.

Two of our party were for turning back down the valley, but Auberry said he could see no advantage in that.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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