English vocabulary examples in context: backbone
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 1.
His moral backbone leaned on that firmness.
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 2.
Each man had his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds.
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 3.
Why don't you break your backbones, my boys?
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 4.
I understand that, if as you say you have lived so long abroad, cutting yourself off from people for objects of your own and forgetting Russia, you must inevitably look with wonder on us who are Russians to the backbone, and we must feel the same about you.
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 5.
He was five feet long, which is a fine length for a wolf, even in Lithuania; he was very strong; he looked at you askance, which was not his fault; he had a soft tongue, with which he occasionally licked Ursus; he had a narrow brush of short bristles on his backbone, and he was lean with the wholesome leanness of a forest life.
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 6.
The long backbone of granite, from which fall away both slopes of the isthmus, is awkward of access.
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 7.
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.
Vocabulary in context: backbone -- Example 8.
They ain't got any backbone.
