The teacher who can break a mainspring first and keep it from getting mended, is often the most esteemed in the community. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference
Journalism of which the mainspring is the gaining of pleasure may easily degenerate into something akin to the comic actor's function. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Our "mainspring" not only has run down, but is broken. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
"The system of which you have been speaking might be called the mainspring of our society. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Agnosticism is the very life and mainspring of science. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
Porges here makes the true remark that the mainspring of. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Bright replied that if Cobden retired the mainspring of the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
In appearance it resembles the coiled mainspring of a watch. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
That woman was the mainspring of his social position in Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But, losing her brother, the mainspring of her life seemed broken. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
By touching the mainspring or the root of all evil -- love of money!. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
"Better git that mule -- or run down this one's mainspring some," the. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Detach the mainspring swivel from the tumbler with a drift-punch. 8th. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
Olive's pretense is the mainspring — or hair-trigger — of the plot. From Wordnik.com. ['Easy A' Aces Comedy (and Hawthorne)] Reference
But these original impulses are still the mainspring of our activities. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The boy has become the mainspring of Aymer's life; he lives again in him. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
His mainspring -- the apparent reason for it all -- is vanity or narcissism. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing The Unabomer] Reference
Mentally he was wondering if this was the mainspring of conduct in all women. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
What is the mainspring of Maggie's character -- the motive for most of her actions?. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
He instilled into his subjects a spirit of enterprise, -- the mainspring of a state. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
The heart jumps like the mainspring of a watch when the resistance of the wheels is removed. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Even feminine vanity, so long accepted as the mainspring of feminine action, had lost its force. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The elastic step, the ringing laugh, and the strong right arm of the youth, own the same mainspring. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills] Reference
It holds a man straight, gives him strength and sustenance, and forms a mainspring of vigorous action. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The great firm, which for years had been the mainspring of all Philippine mercantile enterprise, had failed!. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The scale of rewards is different, but the mainspring of daily living is much the same in the Far East and the Far. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Curiosity may be a worthless element in life when idle, but when otherwise, is it not the mainspring of the watch?. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
His business was carried on, for a time, by others, but the mainspring was gone, and in 1882 the great clock stopped. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
She now controlled, as she believed, the mainspring of the resistance, which would probably cease with the death of Jean. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
Indeed, if love of money were the mainspring of all American action, the officer corps long since would have disintegrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
In the movement of a watch every small wheel and every little rivet is as necessary to the general effect as the mainspring. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
At length, one watchmaker, more ingenious than the rest, suggested that a magnet might, by some chance, have touched the mainspring. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
Despite all of the present-day emphasis on paycheck security as the mainspring of human action, the far stronger force which moves man as. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
And invention is the mainspring of the theatre, which rests purely upon illusion, and does not please us unless it begins by deceiving us. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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