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News at Eleven: Here is Wordsworth on the grass walk at Rydal Mount: . . . he would set his heäd a bit forrad, and put his hands behint his back.
Archive 2006-07-01 Rus Bowden 2006
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If I cannot get it off, there's eleven behint can help me.
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‘Open in the name of the law!’ say the someone behint the door.
Boyhood 2003
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"Ach, he didn'd got free, His hants vos died behint his beck yet," replied Fritz.
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys
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"Shiminey Christmas!" said he, "dot fellow vas look like as if he vas got left behint mit his horse!"
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys
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"Joe's a good sport; he ain't squealin 'none," pursued Dexter; "but there is the fiddle a-hangin 'behint th' bar an 'Joe's beginnin' ter look mighty sour when ye mention it to him."
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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Tim had an 'ould blundherbuss, all loaded up wid bits av nales an' screws an 'such-like, wid a terribul big charrge av powther behint ut.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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Puddy soon ve hear somepody behint dot stages, und see Vood
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys
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He had on, as for ordinar ', his Heeland dress, and walkit behint me, wi' the bit stick in his hand, and his tail sticking out frae below his kilt, as if he had been my flunky.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various
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And I lief my obera-glass behint me in ze drain, and I slib on ze grass and sbrain my mittle finger, and altogedder I do not vish I had com.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
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