Its backbone has been the teaching of Latin by men who can read, write, and speak it rather worse than a third-rate Babu speaks English, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language.

"My backbone is the backbone of Suti.

"I am certain, however, that the backbone of the alliance was brokenits only excuse for existence destroyedwhen they permitted me to learn of the wireless percussion cap which would have placed the navies of the world at their mercy.

The backbone of each of his numerous serious plays is some conflict, reflecting directly or indirectly the prejudices, antagonisms, shortcomings, and struggles of modern German social, religious, and civic life.

The backbone of the newspages, the News Editor, was P.R. Menon, the old and revered FPJ warhorse.

The backbone of the establishment was Miss Minerva Wiggin.

The backbone of the military power in the seventh century was the militia, some six hundred units of an average of a thousand men, recruited from the general farming population for short-term service: one month in five in the areas close to the capital.

Backbones are the chains of bones that run along the back from the head to the tail.

We drove over many miles of hard, firm sea-beachesdelightful brief winter homes for the rich, then back to our fertile piny woods highlands, convinced that the "backbone" of the peninsular was the only desirable locality for permanent settlers who must get a living from the bosom of mother earth.

And the backbone of the German system at the present time is the Prussian, who is not really a German at all but a Germanised Wend.