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Which gives me strange hope for the back-swing of this pendulum.

Sandburg's City 2006

The last rays of the sun gilded sword and scimitar as they clashed, but the sword was faster, the back-swing more efficient.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

Even if he was off center, his control of his mount was so adroit that the treacherous back-swing of the dummy never knocked him out of the saddle.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Worse, he failed to make way for the back-swing, which plucked the ear off the side of his head and threw the lieutenant's timing off.

December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

While its keen blade helped sweep away what President Reagan once called "the evil empire", on its back-swing it returned as a guillotine to wreak terrible havoc in the very citadels of US power.

ANC Today 2001

While its keen blade helped sweep away what President Reagan once called "the evil empire", on its back-swing it returned as a guillotine to wreak terrible havoc in the very citadels of US power.

ANC Today 2001

This was the end of those rainbow visions of himself and her going through life side by side, she lovingly criticizing his stance and his back-swing, he learning wisdom from her.

The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

And once, at a picnic, I observed her killing wasps with a teaspoon, and was impressed by the freedom of the wrist-action of her back-swing.

The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

You see, we'd have to take a very peculiar orbit, and if we should miss connections passing the inner planets, what the sun would do to us at the closest point and where what's left of us would go on the back-swing, would be just too bad!

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Of the Guess Gate, as you may know, all men ask a question in passing through, and in the back-swing of the Gate it creaks an answer.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922