1 Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.
2 By this time Scarlett was boiling, ready to rear like a horse at the touch of a strange rough hand on its bridle.
3 Johnston was forced to abandon the heights he had held so well, in order to protect his rear.
4 When, at last, they had neared Rough and Ready, a few camp fires were gleaming where the last of Steve Lee's rear guard was awaiting orders to fall back.
5 Mrs. Bogart lived across the alley from the rear of Carol's house.
6 Bathing and modeling were equally sound occasions for legs; the wedding-scene was but an approach to the thunderous climax when Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman's rear pocket.
7 Abashed boys slunk into the rear pews and giggled, while milky little girls, up front with their mothers, self-consciously kept from turning around.
8 The rear of the Bon Ton Store was grim with blistered black-painted iron shutters, under them a pile of once glossy red shirt-boxes, now a pulp from recent rain.
9 Carol was conscious that Erik was climbing in, that she was apparently to sit in the back, and that she had been left to open the rear door for herself.
10 Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
11 He put his hand upon the sleeper's rear, as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there.
12 Starbuck and Stubb both had the start of him; and yet they also have the privilege of lounging in the rear.
13 Instantly the three spread boats in the rear paused on their way.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 14 Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens.
15 Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our rear.