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I saw the figure on the floor, seized it, and backed out of the room as fast as I could. "The Dream Doctor", Arthur B. Reeve
She approached the bed cautiously and softly; but she started back so hastily that the high- backed chair she knocked against fell over with a loud noise. "The Son of His Mother", Clara Viebig
He could refuse his young wife nothing when she was so judiciously " backed up" by the campaigner. "Caught in a Trap", John C. Hutcheson

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Confidence; faith; belief in someone's truth and goodness; hope; basis of confidence or belief; credit granted because of belief in one's honesty; a duty or responsibility; a combination of business men or firms engaged in the production of some commodity or related group of commodities, designed to regulate the supply and price of their goods and to prosper by cooperation rather than by competition; often, such a combination formed to crush out smaller competitors formed to crush out smaller competitors and thus control an industry and raise prices; an estate left in someone's charge to be held and managed for another's charge to be held and managed for another's benefit; the guardianship of such an estate. ...

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