Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eyes left behind...
...dreamed that I was fishing quietly, when suddenly I heard a commotion behind me in the boat. I turned around, and there, to my amazement, beheld a twenty-pound cod, that I had just caught, erect upon its tail, glaring at me with intense rage and indignation. Abashed and disconcerted by the menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept...
...could hear Boxer stirring. There was a movement downstairs. Clang! whirr! clang! I rushed frantically to the window, tore up the sash, and hurled the infernal machine out into the air. Clang! jang! whirr! it mocked at me, as it whirled off. I heard a half-suppressed chuckle behind me. I turned round savagely, the perspiration pouring my face. There, at the door, all dressed and ready equipped for fishing, his hand over his mouth to smother his laughter, was - that confounded Boxer...
...Marathon Street. On returning from the other end of his beat and reaching Marathon Street, corner of Omicron, he perceived, to his surprise, that nearly all the lamps in the street were extinguished, and on his stopping for a moment to view the scene he heard a crash close behind him, and saw the only remaining lamp on Marathon Street - the one in front of Miltiades and Son's drug-store - broken and extinguished. Mr. O'Phlynn hastened at once in the opposite direction to ascertain if any of the miscreants were approaching from that quarter...
...then the gentlemanly clerk knew that he was dealing with a poor little crushed and broken heart trying to drown its grief, and gently sidling behind the soda-fountain, he shed briny tears into the raspberry syrup...