Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These iron knobs behind my head...
...hair flowing wildly behind...
...week before the wedding-day, just at nightfall, when George went out alone, to walk over to the Haddens,' - no very great distance. He had gone but a little way when a stranger who had been following him along the sidewalk stepped quickly up behind and laid a quiet hand upon his shoulder...
...benefit of our jumpers, we would say, that the adoption of the National Association rules changes the manner of running broad jumping, and makes this event somewhat more difficult than under last year's rules. By the Association rules the competitor must take off behind the scratch, and the measurement will be taken from the scratch line to the first break of the ground made by any part of his person. Stepping over the line in an attempt will be "no jump," but will count as a "try." In the Intercollegiate rules the competitor was allowed to take off where...
...made to the room which they occupied. Looking, however, to the future, the action of the authorities was timely, reasonable, and just. The number of men who study in the Library is rapidly increasing, and it will not be long before there will be a question of room. But behind all this there is a principle involved dear to all those who wish to see Harvard maintain her ancient prestige. When the Annex was first started, it was said that the young ladies were coming to Cambridge simply to be instructed by our professors, and so intimate a connection between...