"Coming back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wonderingly looking from me to Queequeg, with the most unaccountable glances. Elijah, said I, you will oblige my friend and me by withdrawing. We are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be detained. Ye be, be ye? Coming back afore breakfast? He's cracked, Queequeg, said I, come on. Holloa! cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed a few paces. Never mind him, said I, Queequeg, come on. But he stole up to us again, and suddenly clapping his hand on my shoulder, said — Did ye see anything looking ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... back to a Japanese wife. But Pinkerton when he sailed away had said that he would be back "when the robins nest again," and that suffices Cio-Cio-San. But when Sharpless comes with a letter to break the news that his friend is coming back with an American wife, he loses courage to perform his mission at the contemplation of the little woman's faith in the truant. Does he know when the robins nest in America? In Japan they had nested three times since Pinkerton went away. The consul ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... the boat moves up," Quest replied. "The Professor went off on the first barge. Here he is, coming back." ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... saluted. Noll returned to the track in time to find that the first man whom he and Hal had bowled over was just coming back to his senses. ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... according to the custom of herders. He was sitting in a gully, his back against the bank, feeling a weariness over him that he blamed mainly to the weight of the revolvers and cartridge belt in his weakened state, when he saw Reid coming back. ...
— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden
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