Use backbone in a sentence
Sentences ending with backbone
- It won for the infant institute in the person of Langethal--if the expression is allowable--the backbone. [10]
- Why, when I seen you last, Amasy, your stomach was havin' all it could do to git hold of your backbone. [9]
- Have no fear of the future; I will be at once your shield and your backbone. [4]
- He drew a chair up, lighted a cigar, eyed the young man from head to foot, and then said: "Pride, have you got any backbone? [11]
- Still I don't believe in any aristocracy without pluck as its backbone. [6]
- They ain't got any backbone. [5]
More example sentences with the word backbone in them
- I shall always wonder what put a backbone into Fulkerson just at that crisis. [8]
- The path lies up the steps from the new Massa carriage-road, now on the backbone of the ridge, and now in the recesses of the broken country. [4]
- The Chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches the heart where it meets the oxygen and is purified. [5]
- I'll go back to Washington, and if the government has any backbone, if it's still American, they'll go to work or fight! [9]
- I went down the backbone of the limestone ridge towards the sea the other afternoon, before sunset, and unexpectedly came upon a group of little stone cottages on a ledge, which are quite hidden from below. [4]
- The shopkeepers formed the backbone of King George's adherents; the Tory gentry, the clergy, and those holding office under the proprietor made the rest. [9]
- Lured on by the apparently short distance to the backbone of the ridge, she had climbed the rocks a mile or more above the hotel, and come to meet me. [4]
- She had at that time done her backbone a mischief, and some few months later a wound had broken forth which was part of her hurt. [10]
- He was no suburbanite, but rural to the backbone, professing a most proper contempt for dwellers in towns. [9]
- Yes, but a stiff little backbone, too, or he'd not have faced me down. [11]
- There is something so innocent, so guileless, so complacent, so unearthly serene and self-satisfied about this peerless "hog-wash," that the man must be made of stone who can read it without a dulcet ecstasy creeping along his backbone and quivering in his marrow. [5]
- Especially in the presence of fashion and wealth would the independent American citizen straighten his backbone, reassuring himself that he was as good as anybody. [4]
- He had but one serviceable joint in his body, which was at the bottom of the backbone, and that creaked and grated whenever he bent. [4]
- When I've been most frightened I've perked up and stiffened my backbone, remembering your luck. [11]
- They were not many, but in one sense they were the backbone and force of the crowd, probably the less intelligent but the more tenacious and consistent. [11]
- An almost Oriental luxury had gone far to weaken the fibre of that strong and opulent middle-class who had been the backbone of England, the entrenched Philistines. [11]
- The assassin's sand-bag had missed the exact spot on the nape of the neck, and Serapion's strongly-knit backbone would have been able to resist even a stronger blow. [10]
- And commerce must be at the backbone of every great nation. [9]
- It was after a struggle with Lobengula, when blood had been shed and lives lost, and the backbone of barbarism had been broken south of the Zambesi for ever and ever and ever. [11]
- This promontory has a backbone of rocky ledges and hills; but it has at intervals transverse ledges and ridges, and deep valleys and chains cutting in from either side; so that it is not very passable in any direction. [4]
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