A small rocky backbone was next attained, but still the higher crests remained, and seemed to say, "Excelsior."

She turned and climbed back into the saddle, and sat up straight, her backbone as stiff as a ramrod, and looked over his head and far away.

He crept tremblingly along the narrow backbone until he reached the crossing-point of the runner; there he grasped a hand-rope, and made his way, step by step, along the jouncing plank to the end, where he wrapped his legs around the wire stay, and held on for dear life.

Those who have a vested interest in capitalist imperialismthe real backbone of the counter-revolutionjoin and support counter-revolutionary organizations and take part in counter-revolutionary activities.

The Vicar's wife obviously lacked sufficient backbone to quarrel on the subject.

With it he will cleave the backbone lengthwise, and then, taking each half separately, he will simply twist backwards every second sword and plait them all into a mat two feet wide, eight or ten feet long, and firmly bounded and held together on one side by the unbreakable backbone.

The unfleshed backbone and withers stood up painfully and she counted the ribs one by one.