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Further still, even regarding the velocity to be acquired, and granting it to be sufficient, the shell could not resist the pressure of the gas developed by the ignition of 1,600,000 pounds of powder; and supposing it to resist that pressure, it would be less able to support that temperature; it would melt on quitting the Columbiad, and fall back in a red-hot shower upon the heads of the imprudent spectators. From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context She used to complain to me that she had nothing to fall back upon, that girls usually fall back upon; and I don't see how she is to have got over that since. Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by some childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath never to permit the child henceforth to enter his former home or so much as to look upon his relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed organism may, by force of unconscious imitation, fall back again into his hereditary level. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context	fair to middlin' fair to middling Fair's fair fair-haired boy fair-weather friend faire fairer fairy fairy godmother fait faith Faith will move mountains fake fake it fake off fake out fake out of fall fall afoul of fall all over fall apart fall asleep fall at fall away fall away toward fall back fall back on fall below fall beneath fall between fall between two stools fall by fall by the wayside fall down fall down on fall down on the job fall flat fall flat on face fall for fall for hook, line and sinker fall foul of fall from fall from grace fall from power fall head over heels fall head over heels in love fall heir to fall ill fall in fall in a heap fall in line	fall afoul fall afoul fall afoul of fall again into fall against fall all over fall all over fall among Fall and tackle fall apart fall apart fall apart fall apart fall apart fall apart at the seams fall apart at the seams fall apart at the seams fall armyworm Fall Arrest Manufacturing Company Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training fall asleep fall asleep fall asleep at the switch fall at fall away fall away fall away fall away fall away fall away toward fall back Fall back and forward Fall back and forward Fall back and forward fall back on fall back on fall back on fall back upon fall behind fall behind fall behind fall behind fall below fall below fall beneath fall between fall between (the) two stools fall between (the) two stools fall between (the) two stools fall between (the) two stools fall between two stools fall block Fall Board Skins fall by fall by inheritance fall by succession fall by the wayside fall by the wayside fall by the wayside fall cankerworm Fall City

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Further still, even regarding the velocity to be acquired, and granting it to be sufficient, the shell could not resist the pressure of the gas developed by the ignition of 1,600,000 pounds of powder; and supposing it to resist that pressure, it would be less able to support that temperature; it would melt on quitting the Columbiad, and fall back in a red-hot shower upon the heads of the imprudent spectators.

From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

She used to complain to me that she had nothing to fall back upon, that girls usually fall back upon; and I don't see how she is to have got over that since.

Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context

He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by some childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath never to permit the child henceforth to enter his former home or so much as to look upon his relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed organism may, by force of unconscious imitation, fall back again into his hereditary level.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

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Fall Arrest Manufacturing Company
Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training
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Fall Board Skins
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Fall City