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 1     Int         |          at Ostia on the journey back to Africa. A year later,
 2     Int         |        year later, Augustine was back in Roman Africa living in
 3       1, V      |       faults,” O Lord, “and keep back thy servant from strange
 4       1, XIII   |     forsaken thee; earth sinking back to earth again. And, if
 5       1, XIII   |       bitterness, which calls us back to thee from the poisonous
 6       2, III    |          interrupted. I had come back from Madaura, a neighboring
 7       4, V      |     neither a hope of his coming back to life, nor in all my tears
 8       4, X      |         more rapidly they hasten back toward nonbeing. This is
 9       4, XII    |    praise God for them, but turn back your love to their Creator,
10       4, XII    |        did not leave us. He went back to the place that he had
11       4, XV     |     toward thee, and was pressed back by thee that I might know
12       4, XV     |         this reason I was thrust back; thou didst resist my fickle
13       4, XV     |        and certain. For I had my back toward the light, and my
14       5, I      |       hardness of our heart hold back thy hands, for thou canst
15       5, II     |        Let them, therefore, turn back and seek thee, because even
16       5, II     |         creatures. Let them turn back and seek thee - and lo,
17       5, VII    |          which he could not draw back or retire gracefully. For
18       5, VIII   |        willing either to keep me back or to go with me, but I
19       5, X      |       when my mind tried to turn back to the Catholic faith, I
20       6, V      |         to which way led, or led back, to thee. Thus, since we
21       6, XI     |       would be shameful to lapse back into it again. See now,
22       6, XV     |       till it bled. And she went back to Africa, vowing to thee
23       6, XVI    |         Nor did anything call me back from a still deeper plunge
24       6, XVI    |          tossed and turned, upon back and side and belly - but
25       6, III    |          that pit, I was plunged back into it again, and trying
26       6, III    |        was just as often plunged back down. But one thing lifted
27       6, VI     |          else is it who calls us back from the death of all errors
28       6, VII    |        did they allow me to turn back to where it might be well
29       6, VII    |  obtruded themselves into my way back to thee, as if they would
30       6, IX     |         instead of thee, turning back in their hearts toward Egypt
31       6, X      |          it. And thou didst beat back the weakness of my sight,
32       6, XVII   |           My weakness was dashed back, and I lapsed again into
33       6, XX     |           even when I was thrown back, I still sensed what it
34       7         |    continence, but is still held back. Finally, a child’s song,
35       7, IV     |           stir us up and call us back; inflame us and draw us
36       7, V      |         with drowsiness and fall back into deep slumber. And as
37       7, VII    |         taking me from behind my back, where I had put myself
38       7, VII    |          after thee? Yet it drew back. It refused. It would not
39       7, X      |        way, another bad, drawing back that way; for how else can
40       7, X      |        them and that which draws back to the theater. But they
41       7, XI     |      quite. Still I did not fall back to my old condition, but
42       7, XI     |         But it did not strike me back, nor turn me aside, but
43       7, XI     | muttering, as it were, behind my back; and furtively plucking
44       7, XI     |           trying to make me look back at them. Still they delayed
45       8         |   Shortly thereafter, they start back for Africa. Augustine recalls
46       8, II     |         that we might not topple back into the abyss. And they
47       8, III    |          anything else, and held back from that journey on which
48       8, VIII   |         and had planned on going back together to Africa. And
49       8, VIII   |     anything my mind has brought back concerning thy handmaid
50       8, VIII   |       carrying him around on her back, as big girls carried babies.
51       8, XI     |            I was silent and held back my tears; but my brother
52       8, XII    |        of my mind my eyes sucked back the fountain dry, and sorrow
53       8, XII    |        escape in tears, was held back and silenced. For we did
54       8, XII    |     little by little, there came back to me my former memories
55       9, IV     |         how much I am still kept back by my own weight? To such
56       9, X      |        in the memory, though far back and hidden, as it were,
57       9, XI     |         so submerged - and slide back, as it were, into the further
58       9, XIX    |        where does this name come back from, save from the memory
59       9, XXIX   |         are bound up and brought back together in the One, whereas
60       9, XXXVII |          is, what things to hold back our love from - but righteousness
61       9, XLI    |           and having been beaten back I cried: “Who can attain
62      10, II     |         what I may in turn offer back to thee. For “I am needy
63      10, V      |        proposes to do and report back to his mind what has been
64      10, XX(437)|           from direct experience back to the supporting memories
65      11, XV     |      hoped that I may be brought back to you.”479~22. “What will
66      11, XVI    |          until thou hast brought back together all that I am from