But then, halfway across the street, he cuffed my hands behind my back.
Time had passed behind my back and I had not turned to look.
You can imagine what they would have called me behind my back.
Even in my sleepless state, I sensed the private magic of the moment, and so I gripped my pinky behind my back until the sun finally cleared the Pioneers and flashed its unknowable face at me.
She would tuck them between my knees or, if I was lying on my back, slide them behind my lower back, the place that is still hers.
The school photographer caught the moment: there I am in the 1987 yearbook laughing with my mouth wide open, my eyes as big as saucers, and my hands behind me, having just pushed my skirt back down.
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I've been slightly held back by my university degree, but that's behind me now.
My point is that his clever arithmetic, even if his fingers were crossed behind his back, can do real damage to his less sophisticated audience.
My personal experience--and I don't have the science behind it to back it--is that people start to get more depressed right after the sun starts to come up for longer periods of time.
Behind me, the door to the main building opened and shut, and I kept my back to whoever was coming out, hoping to pass unobserved, but the invader of my private romance was Father James, another recipient of my unguarded affection, and he had seen me.
Carol, like all my donkeys, wore a cross on her back, a pattern of dark hair behind the shoulders.
My mind beat back north, thinking of the puffins' flight, the lines we leave behind us, the spacious weave, our wake, then sleep.
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