1 We must now retrace our way a little.
2 Let us retrace our steps, and examine as we go, with keener eyes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 3 "Oh, no, you wouldn't either," he said, hastily trying to retrace.
4 They turned without delay and began to retrace their steps.
5 He was obliged to halt and retrace his steps.
6 Within a little while the regiment received orders to retrace its way.
7 The mayor came to meet him, and urged him to retrace his steps.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 8 He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 9 At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 10 All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace his steps.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 11 He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than before.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 12 To retrace his steps was impossible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 13 Still I could not turn, nor retrace one step.
14 But there were so many hillocks and banks to climb and pass, that, at length, I began to be weary, and told her we must halt, and retrace our steps.
15 I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes, and could not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together.