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  • But I'm almost close enough to see you: under the North Star, stocky, broadbacked, & determined, trudging on splaying snowshoes over the snow's hard, brilliant, curdled crust ...

    The Power of Reticence Simic, Charles 2006

  • First this, that although I am broadbacked and fallen in the vale of years, the time was, sir, when I played games myself.

    The Imperial Significance of Games 1929

  • Among the spectators was a gladiator; he whose especial task it was to cut the throats of the conquered victims on the arena; he looked eagerly and curiously at the wound for a moment, and then said — "A back stroke from behind — a strong hand, and a broadbacked knife — the man has been slain by a gladiator, or one who knows the gladiator’s trick!"

    The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

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