Word: aback
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...seats were in the front row, at which he seemed taken a little aback; but he was soon put at his ease by our making him give the story of the Medea at length. He had studied it up, he said, in order to get the full benefit of the play. What a relaxation it would have been to him! But other things were in store...