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Usage examples of "set-back".
More knowledge, however, of the history of surgery has given a serious set-back to this self-complacency, and now we know that the later medieval surgeons understood practical antisepsis very well, and applied it successfully.
She was so small and gemlike that she had to be lifted from one set-back to another.
He had but two set-backs, and the man before him in the Manor House of Pontiac was the cause of both.
She had a button nose and a hard little set-back chin, a gripping jaw set on its course even though the angels of God argued against it.
However, the Viscount soon remedied this set-back by stripping off his coat and putting it on again inside out, a change that answered splendidly, for no sooner was it made than he recklessly pushed three rouleaus into the centre of the table, called a main of five, and nicked it.
Our first set-back came when a Tellurian warship, manned by Tellurians and Valerians, succeeded in capturing almost intact one of the most modern and most powerful of our vessels.