The vaults which they build with these stones are so light as to require no props for supporting them.

"Doesn't the House of Carey need another prop?"

She could plead no privilege, on the score of being part of one of the original states; the country too, was relieved from the pressure of her late conflict with England; it was prosperous and quiet; every thing seemed propitious to a calm and dispassionate consideration of the claims of slaveholders to add props to their system, by admitting indefinitely, new slave states to the Union.

Have you got all the props you need?" Nancy's hand was not old or strong or experienced enough to keep this strange young man in order, and just as she was meditating some blighting retort he went on: "Who is that altogether adorable, that unspeakably beautiful lady in black?the one with the pearl comb that looks like a crown?" "That's mother," said Nancy, glowing.

To repudiate this statement is to knock the props out from under the whole philosophy.

But the league her presence cherish'd, Losing its best prop, soon perish'd; She, that was a link to either, To keep them and it together, Being gone, the two (no wonder) That were left, soon fell asunder; Some civilities were kept, But the heart of friendship slept; Love with hollow forms was fed, But the life of love lay dead: A cold intercourse they held After Mary was expell'd.

With these, I returned to the study, and, having removed the props, placed the planks up against the door.

Satan came into the theological school of the Protestants, disguised in the robes of learned doctors searching for truth, and took away the props of religious faith.

In its next, or more mature state, it disdains all props, and rising by its own strength above the walls on which it grew, occasionally puts on the appearance of a tree; in this the flower of its age, the branches are smooth, devoid of radicles and holdfasts; and it is loaded with blossoms and with fruit; the lobulations of the leaves are likewise less; this is the war-poet's ivy.

After the wine got to flowing freely and the crowd all jolly Alla would drag out the prop and make a nice little speech on behalf of the company.

I struggle up to the dim blue heaven, From the world, far down in whose breast are driven The props of my pillared throne; And the rosy fires of morning glow Like a glorious thought, on my brow of snow, While the vales are dark and lone!

To be self-caused means to exist necessarily (I. prop.

Modus extensionis et idea illius modi una cademque est res, sed duobus modis expressa (II. prop.

He battered down part of it, fired the props of his mine and so brought down more, and sent troops by relays to escalade the breach.

We certainly wouldn't want to go off and forget these props.

Another desires to sell clothes-props.

Nothing can be or happen otherwise than as it is and happens (I. prop.

It wouldn't astonish me, if they should pronounce the whole apparatus of the State rotten from top to bottom, and only kept from falling to pieces by all sorts of ingenious contrivances of an external and temporary nature,here a wheel, or pivot, or spring to be replaced,there a prop or buttress to be set up,here a pipe choked up,there a boiler burst,and so on, from one end of the works to the other.

Here the awning-posts were found of good service, plank being set on their edges against them, which, in their turn, were made to sustain the props of the ways.

The son, just launched on manhood's tide, The doating father's prop and stay, The tender mother's joy and pride, Became the fell destroyer's prey; While tasting bliss without alloy, Thrice happy with his youthful bride.

He found them a contentious party within the state; he left them its strongest props in the conduct of public affairs.

Gentle Sir, Lay not a leaden loade of foule reproach Upon so weake a prop; what's done is past recal.

Meantime she is dead to me, and I miss a prop.

He held up to notice its thoroughly aristocratic character: the nomination of a majority of the House of Commons by a few hundred families; the entire identification of the more independent portion, the county members, with the great landholders; the different classes whom this narrow oligarchy was induced, for convenience, to admit to a share of power; and finally, what he called its two props, the Church, and the legal profession.

Two hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands sent the same rays of light through the spectrum of his poetic mind, and a bank was an institution of such abiding grace that, having once established a connection with it, one possessed forever a stout prop in time of need.