Barnard students, graduates of the Manhattan Trade School, and girls from seasonal trades formed the backbone of the group.

They can't strike except at objects within half their length, and one little tap, as you will see, breaks their backbone.

"I don't know why it is, but the present generation has a marvelous way of skimming around any kind of work with their hands, They'll work their brains till they haven't got any more backbone than a caterpillar, but as for manual labor, it's old-timey and out of fashion.

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

In Greece those social customsstill recognizable in Homer and the early mythologyhad in the sixth century been overwhelmed by a back-flow of Aegean society, when the northern aristocracy was compelled to surrender to the native element which constituted the backbone of the democracy.

Thank God, our lovely Italy hath a noble backbone of these same mountains, which afford shelter to her children in their straits.

Certainly he lacked backbone and jawbone.

That day, and the night after it, we remained on the field of battle, and erected the dried backbone of a dolphin as a trophy.

Where you find a "hog back" or "devil's backbone," you have an exception to the rule, but the exceptions are not frequent enough to worry over.

" I confess to a kind of chill that crept down my backbone at these words, and to having turned my head and stared hard at the book-cases behind me.

For many hundred miles they had been climbing the backbone of the continent.

A stake driven through its collar into the earth, and crowned with an ancient, tall hat of beaver, gave it a backbone.

Neither do they grow a backbone, or skeleton; but, inside the body, the Cuttle has a plate of chalk, which you may find on the shore.

" The Leslies straightened their backbones.

Another characteristic effect of the High Alps often presents itself when one has been climbing for two or three hours, with nothing in sight but the varying wreaths of mist that chased each other monotonously along the rocky ribs up whose snow-covered backbone we were laboriously fighting our way.

Walking one day by the sea, he picked up the backbone of a great fish, and from it he invented the saw.

Cut a big hole into each slice, preserving the backbone and skin.

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.

Shortly after this a number of citizens representing the business backbone of the town met quietly and drafted a letter to a score of citizens whom they thought might be trusted.

At length its true scope appeared, its drift to save the backbone of my sister stooping to scuttles.

' He used to say, Lady Holland (his daughter) relates, 'I am all for cheap luxuries, even for animals; now all animals have a passion for scratching their backbones; they break down your gates and palings to effect this.

It was here that the reconstitution of the dismembered body of Osiris took place, and it was here that the solemn ceremony of setting up the backbone of Osiris was performed each year.

I can feel it go shivering down my backbone all the time.

The pride of ignorance stiffened her backbone and curled her lip.

This unity of the physical universe with the physical atom, and with all things createdearth, animal, or crystalis the physical backbone of Oriental metaphysics.