What is "taken back"

Usage examples of "taken back".

I would rather have been captured by them than taken back to Basti, and Skruf knew it.

No one would say it, or even wanted to think it, but the family had to decide if Four had been too badly damaged to be taken back.

Nor did the crowd insult them as they were taken back to the barge.

Now the Indians have taken back their secret, and though many may search, none will lift the graven stone that seals it, nor shall the light of day shine again upon the golden head of Montezuma.

He and the other survivors were permitted to leave, save for two hostages, who were taken back to Fort Duquesne.

As had been foreseen, he was found guilty of high treason, condemned to death, and taken back to the Tower to await his execution.

But even the witches themselves, when in the court of conscience with humble and contrite spirit they weep for their sins and make clean confession asking forgiveness, are taken back to mercy.

Art would be taken back from the snobs and collectors, abolished as a specialized department catering to an elite audience, and its qualities of beauty and creation restored to integral life from which they were stolen by work.

Part of the crowd were taken back by this move, and felt disposed to accept it as a demonstration of the Parrot's innocence.

In truth, Coleman was taken back at the outlook, but he could no more refrain from instantly accepting this half-concealed challenge than he could have refrained from resenting an ordinary form of insult.

She entrusts to your care this dangerously ill man and permits him to be taken back to Earth with you.