Слово "back". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Before me were the clumsy backs of perhaps a score of these Beast People, their misshapen heads half hidden by their shoulder-blades.

There were moments when I was bewildered by the terror he inspired, because I had no appeal whatever against either his menaces or his inflictions; the servants did not like to offend their young master by taking my part against him, and Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me, though he did both now and then in her very presence, more frequently, however, behind her back.

with this freezing Southern Ocean air burning the back of my throat.

They were well above the level of the floor, so that rheumatic old ladies had not to struggle in an undignified manner in order to get to their feet. The seats of the chairs did not, as in so many modern high-priced armchairs, stop halfway between the thigh and the knee, thereby inflicting agony on those suffering from arthritis and sciatica; and they were not all of a pattern. There were straight backs and reclining backs, different widths to accommodate the slender and the obese. People of almost any dimension could find a comfortable chair at Bertram's.

It was joined on the grass by a policeman’s cap with the crest of the city of Kiev, four decks of playing cards with identically patterned backs, and a pack of official documents with round purple stamps on them.

All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.

He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.

With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went.

but his back is as crooked as a politician.

White Fang picked out the post for himself, and Matt backed his judgment with strong language after the experiment had been tried.

Oh, I backed him!

So some rocks were backed up with more rocks.

She backed against the wall. "I won't do it, Raoul.

Two minutes more and the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena, bashing and backing up and bashing each other again.

The fire was gone, then back again, like a winking eye.

When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.

We all agreed we ought to back him and pooled one hundred lire.

“Yes,” Marie Thorne said, “even though they explained it much better than I've done, and backed it up with all sorts of analogies.

"Well, it doesn't matter what punishment I got," she said, "but the worst part of all was when Father said I couldn't keep Timothy any more, and Mother backed Father up and said Tim must go.

‘Wind-in-the-night, Sir,’ said the Sergeant-Major. (All breakages were thus attributable or ‘to ‘Sappers’-demonstration, Sir.’) Hooper appeared; he was a sallow youth with hair combed back, without parting, from his forehead, and a flat, Midland accent; he had been in the company two months.

The rattle of the curtain rings on the stairs as the housemaid drew them, the noises of the second housemaid's dustpan and brush in the passage outside. In the distance the heavy noise of the front-door bolt being drawn back.

So I went back to doing the projects I loved.

He glanced at the hand that held the brand, noticing the cunning delicacy of the fingers that gripped it, how they adjusted themselves to all the inequalities of the surface, curling over and under and about the rough wood, and one little finger, too close to the burning portion of the brand, sensitively and automatically writhing back from the hurtful heat to a cooler gripping-place; and in the same instant he seemed to see a vision of those same sensitive and delicate fingers being crushed and torn by the white teeth of the she-wolf.

See, some people might fear girls not liking them back.

‘But why should I want to get back on you?