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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONOff went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO HANG BACK
- alternate
- balance
- balk
- be irresolute
- be reluctant
- be unwilling
- blow hot and cold
- dally
- debate
- defer
- delay
- demur
- dillydally
- dither
- doubt
- equivocate
- falter
- flounder
- fluctuate
- fumble
- hang
- hang back
- hedge
- hem and haw
- hold back
- hold off
- hover
- linger
- oscillate
- pause
- ponder
- pull back
- pussyfoot
- scruple
- seesaw
- shift
- shrink
- shy away
- sit on fence
- stammer
- stop
- straddle
- stumble
- stutter
- swerve
- tergiversate
- think about
- think twice
- vacillate
- waffle
- waver
- weigh
- alternated
- balanced
- balked
- blew hot and cold
- dallied
- debated
- deferred
- delayed
- demurred
- dillydallied
- dithered
- doubted
- equivocated
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- fumbled
- hedged
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- held off
- hem and haw
- hovered
- hung
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- lingered
- oscillated
- paused
- pondered
- pulled back
- pussyfooted
- sat on fence
- scrupled
- seesawed
- shied away
- shifted
- shrank
- stammered
- stopped
- straddled
- stumbled
- stuttered
- swerved
- tergiversated
- thought about
- thought twice
- vacillated
- waffled
- was irresolute
- was reluctant
- was unwilling
- wavered
- weighed
- be behind
- dally
- dawdle
- decrease
- dillydally
- diminish
- drag
- drag one's feet
- ebb
- fail
- fall off
- falter
- flag
- get no place fast
- hang back
- hobble
- idle
- inch
- inch along
- jelly
- limp
- linger
- loiter
- lose strength
- lounge
- plod
- poke
- procrastinate
- put off
- retard
- saunter
- shuffle
- slacken
- slouch
- slow
- slow up
- stagger
- stay
- straggle
- tail
- tarry
- tool
- trail
- trudge
- wane
- dallied
- dawdled
- decreased
- dillydallied
- diminished
- dragged
- dragged one's feet
- ebbed
- failed
- faltered
- fell off
- flagged
- got no place fast
- hobbled
- hung back
- idled
- inch along
- inched
- jellied
- limped
- lingered
- loitered
- lost strength
- lounged
- plodded
- poked
- procrastinated
- put off
- retarded
- sauntered
- shuffled
- slackened
- slouched
- slowed
- slowed up
- staggered
- stayed
- straggled
- tailed
- tarried
- tooled
- trailed
- trudged
- waned
- was behind
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.