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Come back   /kəm bæk/   Listen
Come back

verb
1.
Be restored.  Synonym: return.
2.
Go back to something earlier.  Synonyms: hark back, recall, return.
3.
Even the score, in sports.
4.
Answer back.  Synonyms: rejoin, repay, retort, return, riposte.






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"Come back" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, 'we'd better say no more; the least said the soonest mended. You're ill, you don't know what you're saying. You're not looking well; you've been brooding over things. You'd better go away for a change. When you come back you'll think differently.' ...
— Celibates • George Moore

... Harris, of New York, correspondent of the "New York Times" in 1870, in a private letter, says, "Conwell is the funniest chap I ever fell in with. He sees a thousand things I never thought of looking after. When his letters come back in print I find lots in them that seems new to me, although I saw it all at the time. But you don't see the fun in his letters to the papers. The way he adapts himself to all circumstances comes from long travel; but it is droll. ...
— Russell H. Conwell • Agnes Rush Burr

... the St. Winifred Hotel, where Mr Candy found the name of Junius Keswick, and see if it is not down again not long after the date which I have put on this slip of paper. I think if a person went to Niagara Falls he'd be just as likely to make a little trip of it and come back again as to keep travelling on, which Mr Candy supposes he did. If you find the name again, put down the date of arrival on this, and see if there was any memorandum about ...
— The Late Mrs. Null • Frank Richard Stockton

... are," laughed Stenhouse. "The man has obsessed you already, and you'll come back, if you go, like Bauchardy, the man who died in the hospital at Marseilles, cursing Berselius, yet so magnetized by the power of the chap that you would be ready to follow him again if he said 'Come,' and you had the legs to stand on. That is how ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... house That is mine to know, An empty house That is cold with woe; Like a prison grim With its bars of black, And it won't be home Till they all come back. ...
— When Day is Done • Edgar A. Guest


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