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Tex's course was checked for a moment by a boiling back-current and as he again felt the pull of the rushing stream
Bar-20 Days Clarence Edward Mulford 1919
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Four times the back-current sucked him under with its wild pull in the self-same way, and four times the return wave flung him up upon the beach again like a fragment of sea-weed.
The Great Taboo Grant Allen 1873
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On we went, steaming, and smoking, and splashing more than ever, buffeting against the muddy-looking stream, which, however, was sometimes too much for us, so that we were fain to take advantage of the still waters or back-current near the banks.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 Various 1841
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