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beat back
1. As they beat back and forth across the canal in the chill glimmers of dawn, a needleboat cruised by them, and she couldn’t help herself thinking it was Jorma
2. The crowd parted for them and the Ploughman’s soldiers beat back the High Police
3. and support each other to beat back the lawyers
4. Then he shut his eyes again to her, and his blood beat back again
5. The situation had improved of late, but it was still impossible to know whether Britain could beat back Germany, or whether Great Britain would even exist a few years hence
6. Richard’s first beat back home was the Village, and when there was no news to report—no strike on the docks, no murders, no robberies to go pestering Larry Pulaski about—he spent hours in the jazz clubs, soaking up the between-sets patter of the musicians who came down from Harlem to play
7. I close my eyes and try to beat back the surging pain
8. The sailors fought with their fists and many of them took the stoke bars and shovels from the stokers and used them to beat back the others
9. If she could but arouse her, their combined efforts might possibly avail to beat back the fierce and bloodthirsty intruder
10. Are we to believe that the yeomen of England, who beat back the Armada, were inferior to the Spanish peasantry whom they overcame, or is it not rather true that the Spanish author had a deeper insight into his country's heart than was allotted to the English dramatist? Cervantes, the soldier and adventurer, rose above the prejudices of his class, while Shakespeare never lifted his eyes beyond the narrow horizon of the Court to which he catered