retrace one's steps
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One is led on and on with a zany Cartesian logic, but one can never retrace one's steps and relate the story coherently.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The gates of Dis stand open night and day; small trouble it is to descend thereto, but to retrace one's steps, and regain the upper air, there lies the toil."
From National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
The best way, as I have heard, to get out of a labyrinth, is to retrace one's steps.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
To retrace one's steps, and follow to the end the faintly distinguishable directions, appears to be the essential element in poetic imagination.
From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton
From Catherington, one may either retrace one’s steps to the Portsmouth Road above Horndean, or else continue on the by-lanes that bring the pedestrian to the highway below that wayside hamlet.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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