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1 It had been a backward spring , and the salmon were late in running.
2 With a backward spring Kent caught his clerk as he sped for the door.
3 He made a swift backward spring toward the door, but he was a little too late.
4 We are having such wonderfully warm weather that I fear we shall have a backward spring there.
5 Summer birds are, this cold and backward spring , unusually late: I have seen but one swallow yet.
6 In the backward spring of 1852, I had an excellent opportunity of testing the value of this substance.
7 Like a backward spring , propelling me into the past and giving me more of it each time I visit.
8 Fruit prospects are good, the cold backward spring held the fruit buds back until all danger of frost was over.
9 To encourage further conversation I asked her if she did not think we had been having a rather backward spring .
10 Distinctly chilly in India, excepting during the day; we seem to have hit off the most backward spring known here for many years.
11 Our polygamy here is still in its infancy and our leprosy has had the disadvantage of a cold, backward spring , but look at our pie.
12 Miranda Ferguson of Hockaday School, Dallas, completed 35 consecutive backward springs , beating the previous record of 32.
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This collocation consists of: Backward spring through the time