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set back 1. a recession in the upper part of a high building, esp one that increases the daylight at lower levels 2. a steplike shelf where a wall is reduced in thickness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Of course, this only set back the day of reckoning and seduced us into spending more than we would have spent on a cash basis. The vicarage was set back from the highroad to Tercanbury, and from the dining-room one saw a semicircular strip of lawn and then as far as the horizon green fields. He was a rather hard lot, take him how you might; but then you couldn't fairly ex- pect a man to be sweet that had been set back so. |
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