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Definition of the day : « backbone »

  • noun strength of character
  • noun spinal column of vertebrate
Example sentences :
  • Among all the refugees, there is not one more loyal to the backbone than we.
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • If the hunter fires then, over the horn, he will strike the beast's backbone.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • She was a princess to the backbone, at all hours, and in all places.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
  • Fifty pounds at the end of his backbone, he had had enough of it, thank you!
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • Nothing makes a nicer tourte in this way than large soles, taking off the flesh from the backbone, without the side fins.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • When cut, it should be done with a fish trowel, and the parts about the backbone on the shoulders are the firmest and the best.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Choose them of two or three pounds weight; take out the gills, eyes, and entrails, and remove the blood from the backbone.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • The deemsters, as we have seen, literally swear by its backbone.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • In six months he was Unionist to the backbone, and not only Unionist but Conservative.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • He crossed the backbone of the range and began the descent on the eastern side.
  • Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts