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Definition of Mainstays
1. mainstay [n] - See also: mainstay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainstays
Literary usage of Mainstays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries by Victor Plarr (1895)
"He is regarded as one of the mainstays of his party, and is supposed to be
peculiarly in the confidence both of Mr. Gladstone (whose intimate friend he is), ..."
2. A Glimpse of Old Mexico: Being the Observations and Reflections of a by James Hepburn Wilkins (1901)
"I think that about three-fourths of the energies of the farmer class are devoted
to raising corn and beans, the mainstays of life in Mexico. ..."
3. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"Though the doctrines and practices of the schools were different from one another,
yet there were none that did not treat the " three mainstays and five ..."
4. If You Don't Write Fiction by Charles Phelps Cushing (1920)
"... the more universal must be the appeal of the material printed and the fewer
the mainstays of interest, until in a magazine with a circulation of more ..."
5. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by a Square, with Illustration by by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1899)
"Yet before I proceed to my legitimate subject some few final remarks will no
doubt be expected by my Readers upon those pillars and mainstays of the ..."
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