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Nor can one forget that in this war the mainstay of our enemy has lain in the discipline and devotion of the native troops.
It will be seen that during the whole course of his long career he acted as the mainstay of his father, and as father to his younger brothers.
Wilson was the mainstay of the subsequent discussion and put all doubtful matters in a clearer light.
Asked the Woman, who realized perfectly that Kid had been the mainstay and inspiration, as a great leader must be, of the whole Derby Team.
With the perfect and self-sacrificing courage which he always showed, he did not shrink from this new demand, although Ezekiel was the prop and mainstay of the house.
It is fundamental to the whole question to understand this rightly, and, once grasped, make it the mainstay of individual existence, which is the foundation of national life.
There were also a general shop and a number of very pleasant cottages, each marked with the Mainstay crest.
There was one of our men hanging on the mainstay, and roaring like a bull, as he tried to climb by it out of the water.
It has it said that from the beginning the Attorney-General had been the mainstay of the Government; but at this particular crisis his adherence was essential to its life.
There are one or two officials who are our chief social mainstays, but the difficulty is to muster the few available souls under the same roof at the same moment.
Not only was Dora the head of the household in the sense of directing its internal affairs, but she likewise soon proved herself to be its mainstay as bread-winner.
Her ability, brightness, wit, happy way of managing, and her strong personality generally are undoubtedly at present the mainstays of the Daughters' organization.
Never did he raise his flag but in the interests of the liberty of the people, and back of every movement of his army there was his confidence in the Bible, which was his mainstay.
It was harder, almost, for us than the fierce fight with death of the one who had been the mainstay of us all.
Kindly treatment made the two Americans, Davis and Young, his faithful friends and subjects, and they proved his mainstay in the work of conquest.
We can also see, in the smoke and dust, the thin fringe of sailors who must be forming the mainstay of the defense.
Exhausting the patience of the men who are the props and mainstays of truth does not seem reasonable, and after a few visits to court they are not anxious to come again.
Wallace would show up in several other events, for he was the mainstay of Paul's contesting delegation.
These had, throughout the three campaigns, shown fighting qualities of so high a character, that the whole army had come to look upon them as their mainstay in battle.
The oil-lamp and the candle were the mainstays of artificial lighting throughout many centuries.
Therefore, with the help of their literary mainstay, Wiggins, they composed a honeyed letter to him, asking leave to fish the Grange water.
"Do as you think best, Jack; you and Marion must be my mainstays now," and she kissed him affectionately.
He did indeed once or twice shake his head and say that his wife had been the comfort and mainstay of his life for over thirty years, but there the matter ended.
With its remarkable variations of climatic zones and great wealth and variety of vegetation, it might have been supposed that agriculture, not mining, would have been the great mainstay of Mexico.
Dan was taking it for granted that he was the mainstay at home, and that for him school was out of the question.
The assassin has done his best to strike down mercy and moderation, of both of which this good and noble life was the mainstay.
Agriculture, the mainstay of the nobility and gentry, continued to hold first place in the interests of the governing classes, but the importance of all sources of wealth was fully recognized.
He had been intimate with Cromwell, and after the return of Charles won the reputation of being, in all affairs of trade and plantations, "the mainstay of the Government."
"It cost the Turks more than the mere loss of ships and of men; they lost that moral force which is the mainstay of conquering nations."
The cereals constitute the mainstay of vegetarians all the world over, and although not superior to nuts, must be considered an exceedingly valuable, and, in some cases, essential food material.
Finding that the Premier was no longer to be the mainstay of their hopes, the Boers began to renew their agitations.
The members of the committee showed at once that they knew themselves to be the mainstay of the country, while the others were merely frivolous and unstable politicians.
Inspired by benevolence and sustained by courage, they have been the mainstays of all social renovation and progress.
He entertained the opinion that man could have no such mainstay in life as the companionship of a wife of good temper and high principle.
We may very likely have to tramp one or two leagues more before we are able to kill the game which will form the mainstay of our dinner.
These people are the mainstay of the reform movement as they are of the prosperity of the country.
A sixth mainstay of the magazines is in the presentation of articles dealing with happenings of national interest or personalities prominent in the day's news.
In the hotter countries of the world, in which water is the very mainstay of life, a number of persons drive a considerable trade in the sale of that liquid.
Slim and Toe were veterans, and the mainstays of the team, and Sam Willard was one of those chaps so often seen in baseball, a brilliant but erratic performer.
The tariff duties, collected at the custom-houses, were, as they always had been, the mainstay of the revenue.
Aided by the mainstay itself, which served him for a hand-rope, he mounted cross-legs upon the timber, and then, without much trouble, shifted his runner to the opposite side.
He was for years the mainstay of the commons, and he proved to be a thorn in the flesh of more than one governor.
The fence most commonly seen on new farms, and that may fairly be termed the pioneer's mainstay, is a simple one of stakes.
The mainstay of the Hawaiian Islands has, for the last thirty-five years, been the sugar industry.
The Englishman and Scotchman cannot do without his potato as an adjunct; but the error of the Irishman is in making it the mainstay of his life.
He expected you would one day stand at his side, his mainstay and help and comfort in his business.
Not for an instant could the President consider sacrificing the man who for ten years had been the mainstay of Republican power.
The pony that was called hers by courtesy was the mainstay for the herding, and she could seldom use him at this season.
No doubt but that the fellow had arranged to be seen lunching with this mainstay of the League.
Your wisdom in planning this campaign, in which we confidently expect a glorious victory, is our mainstay, upon which all other hopes depend.
I am delighted, in my new capacity as Trustee, to salute the Founder and the Mainstay of our Library.
They were a nice, intelligent family, then in deep mourning for a son and brother, the hope and mainstay of the family, who had fallen in battle a few months before.
To a simple sequence we attach no importance, but a causal sequence or consequence that has been observed is a mainstay of inference.
The Britons, just as much as himself, understood corn as the staff of life, the mainstay of war as well as of peace.
Older passengers will be a mainstay, especially since therapeutic value is sure to be disclosed.
It is therefore the mainstay of the scholar in investigating or restoring the word-forms of the ancient language.
The raising of cattle, sheep and horses is the mainstay of the agriculture of the department.
It is often said that the farmer is our financial mainstay; so in the good process of time will he be a moral mainstay, for ultimately finance and social morals must coincide.
I talked with my mother, who wept over her son, who might now have been our mainstay, if he had not been spoiled by these false ideas.
Where fish and rabbits in their season was the mainstay with these people, prodigious numbers were required and consumed to sustain life.
Sitting quietly in meditation is the traditional mainstay of Eastern religion, but Zen manages to carry the mental repose born of meditation back into daily life.
Agriculture itself, which has hitherto been the mainstay of his conservatism, is rapidly becoming a force of revolution.
He had been her mainstay during all the complex working of the ranch that had fallen upon her shoulders.
The leaders in big corruption, the mainstays of what has come to be called "big political business," have nearly all been college men.
Remember, there are a good many reforms that must be made, for a game must keep up its position and also retain its popularity with the masses, who are the mainstay of football.
The hope of making himself worthy to recover her was the mainstay of his gallant persistence in this work, and it had wrought a wonderful effect.
He became, in a short time, the pride of the army and a warmly welcomed mainstay to the Allies.
Her son, who should have been her mainstay and comfort, was in an insane asylum, the result of drink and excesses.
The "Sun-of-my-soul," tame-canary, fancy portrait of his own composition, on which he had often fondly dwelt, did not prove much of a mainstay at this crisis, perhaps because it lacked life.
Is that a reason for destroying them after the lapse of centuries, and when England planted them in the land to be her mainstay?
Jones' mainstay in his first volume, and she is, except Butler himself, altogether his most interesting personality.
Shortly afterward, Dick had his first glimpse of Johnson, the mainstay of the Clinton team.
In very large part, and certainly indispensable to these instrumental advances, has the art of working in glass and metals been the mainstay of research.
Invited to edit a magazine for boys called the Union Jack, he became the mainstay of the new periodical, to which he contributed several serials in succession.
Even during active warfare it checked individual license; and when the conquest was over it was the representative and mainstay of order and justice against high-handed anarchy and wrong.
Love, however, is the basis of religion, the mainstay of ethics, as well as the inspiration of lyric and epic verse.
They took in all sail except a small triangular one, a sort of apology for what we call a mainstay sail, to enable them to keep the ship's head to the wind.
Apparently such exercises were the mainstay of his grammatical instruction, for rules of grammar are reduced to a minimum.
She was a widow and worried; and she had mentioned the departed Philip, as a bitterly regretted shield, prop, and mainstay, many times during breakfast.
The soldiers joined with them, and there was no want of voices; nor was there wind, and the mainstay was carried away.
His army was the mainstay of the country and had it been destroyed, the Czar would have found it difficult to form another.
The mainstay of the Roman military control of Italy first, and of the whole empire afterwards, was the splendid system of roads.
She could not but know that she was the mainstay of the party, as to their external comfort.
Wilhelm being the one mainstay of the establishment in the matter of English, and the one who had waited upon me during all my stay.
Sue could not even take her usual interest in the great east window, which was generally her mainstay through the parts of the sermon she could not follow.
After that, they are no longer helpers in the household, they are the mainstays of their own homes, and they realize then what it really means to be home-makers.
The note issue is now a most trifling part of the liabilities of the Scotch banks, but it was once their mainstay and source of profit.
This inevitable hour is always marked by the weakening of the ideal that was the mainstay of the race.
Billy, their only living son, was their mainstay and support, doing service as a herder, and giving his earnings to his mother.
He soon became its mainstay, and had been the main factor in winning the championship of the National League and the World Series twice in succession.
The question is one of supreme importance, as it is chiefly women who are now the mainstay of the Faith.
The coffee industry of Salvador is the most important of all its exports, and its pursuit is the mainstay of the country.
This break-down of our mainstay was unfortunate, for as we could not get on with his assistance, how could we manage without it?
The state takes away the mainstay of the family and for them there is suffering worse than his to be faced.
This evident material progress which has continued incessantly ever since has been a mainstay of the general belief in Progress which is prevalent to-day.
I then let the gas escape from the balloon, and released my little goat, who had been my mainstay through all this perilous adventure.
"Let me see the stuff," said Stover, as though he had been the mainstay of custom tailors all his life.
Noble in a great crisis, he was noble still in the lesser wearing duties of that pioneer colony of which he was the hope and mainstay.
It dismayed her to think of her extreme loneliness; Edward was now her only mainstay and her only hope.
The result of this careful handling was that he rounded into form in mid-season, and was the mainstay of the nine in the box.