"Go back on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It's settled, all settled," cried Grandet, taking his daughter's hand and striking it with his own. "Eugenie, you won't go back on your word?—you are an ...
— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac
... try to determine that? But if we should go back on foot through the gardens until we came to the city, to Ujjayini, what harm would ...
— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka
... go back on you whatever you did. And you mustn't keep on thinking I want to go to India. I don't care a rap about India itself. I hate Anglo-Indians and I simply loathe hot places. And Daddy doesn't want me out there, really. I shall be much happier on my farm. ...
— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair
... If you'll come round with me to my hut, I'll tell the old woman what's up, and then we'll strike for the river. You won't go back on me?" ...
— Tom, The Bootblack - or, The Road to Success • Horatio Alger
... that might involve the repeal of much of our creed. And there's the rub. We are afraid of pains and penalties. And then we don't like to go back on the fathers who made the creed. It looks like a reflection on their wisdom and piety. But I don't think it really is. They were faithful to their light. And they had to contend with evil traditions. It is not ...
— Love's Final Victory • Horatio
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