The buck was game to the backbone, and had no notion of givin' in, and I had to fight for it, or die; so up and down, over and over, and all around, we went for a long time, until Crop made up his mind that my callin' so earnestly meant something, and round the point he came.

Clean and split a fish open down the back; remove the backbone; sprinkle with salt and pepper; put in a baking-dish, flesh side up.

Clean the fish; cut open along the backbone.

The little Captain was common-sensed to the backbone,intolerant.

The Poles of Galicia, having enjoyed the utmost liberty under Austrian rule, have naturally been almost immune from the discontent so noticeable among their kinsmen in Russia and Prussia, and have indeed for a generation past formed the backbone of all parliamentary majorities in the Austrian Reichsrat.

columella^, backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch, mainstay.

contents &c 190; substance, pith, marrow; backbone &c (center) 222; heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings^, womb, lap; penetralia [Lat.], recesses, innermost recesses; cave &c (concavity) 252.

Centrality N. centrality, centricalness^, center; middle &c 68; focus &c 74. core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentration &c (convergence) 290; centralization; symmetry.

The power of the Guard was established, the backbone of the opposition broken; henceforth, the work for law and order was to be easy compared with what it had been.

The fourth creek behind the head is common to the cerebel or little brain, and marrow of the backbone, the last and most solid of all the rest, which receives the animal spirits from the other ventricles, and conveys them to the marrow in the back, and is the place where they say the memory is seated.

Therefore two rows of ribs pretty close to one another, that come out of the backbone, as the branches of a tree do from its trunk, form a kind of hoop, to hide and shelter those noble and tender parts.

As for the backbone, all the works of man afford nothing so artfully and curiously wrought.

Borrow a little of your husband's backbone.

"Yes," he replied, "my backbone is shot through.

"I never knew," gasped one, "as I'd so many joints in my backbone, and that each one of them could hold so many aches.

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.

Spare ribs and backbone, jowl and feet, souse and sausage, liver and chitterlings greased every mouth on the plantation; and the crackling-bread, made of corn meal mixed with the crisp tidbits left from the trying of the lard, carried fullness to repletion.

After traveling the backbone of the mountain for some distance we came to a dimly marked trail, leading to the left.

Just as we reached the summit, we found, standing on the backbone of the ridgeso located that rain falling on it would flow from one side of it into one water-shed, and from the other side into another water-sheda great, stately sequoia gigantea fully three hundred feet high and of immense circumference.

He was also a gentleman to the backbone, and no word his mistress uttered, however casual, ever passed unacknowledged by him.

INTRODUCTION Our forests, with their billions of trees, are the backbone of agriculture, the skeleton of lumbering, and the heart of industry.

She is the greatest grande dame one could meet, and a Tory to the backbone in politics, but her manner to the servants is not nearly so haughty as Mr. Budge's.

"No," said I, "but I stubbed my toe most confoundedly, jarring it upon the rascal's backbone as he went through the door.

He was a British tar to the backbone, and of a class extinct now (1653-1702).

Johnson dying in 1784, Boswell's "Life" of him appeared five years after, a work unique in biography, and such as no man could have written who was not a hero-worshipper to the backbone.