An invariable rule, with which nothing is allowed to interfere, is plenty of fresh air and exercise, and she regards these as the mainspring of her long years of health and activity.
But she was able to see several people, to whom she spoke with that all-majestic charity which was the mainspring and keynote of her life.
Justice, as Bentham replied, has no meaning till you have settled by experience what laws will produce happiness; and your absolute equality would destroy the very mainspring of social improvement.
We must look beneath the superficial phenomena and ask what is the nature of the structure itself: what is the driving force or the mainspring which works the whole mechanism.
One would think that a man, the mainspring of whose activity is what he himself in his own language calls shrewdness, ought to feel ashamed of this, and never dream of calling himself Christian or liberal while he continues a merchant.
One has but to remember the persistent and undying passion for gain among men, the mainspring of human action in these days, to become convinced that the advantages of the rich over the poor can be maintained in no other way.
Speaking of the effects of parliamentary reform upon the state of parties, he says, "But throughout these changes, patronage has been the mainspring of the organisation of parties.
All locks for percussion should have the greatest strength of mainspring at the moment they strike the nipple, or as it is termed, when the lock is down.
On the other hand, it is said, that no certain aim can be taken where the pulling up and sudden liberation of the mainspring discharges the pistol; the act of discharging it destroying the aim.
This Loving-kindness continually surrounds us; in it we live and have our real being; it is the mainspring of joy and love and beauty, and we call it the Grace of God.
Only lately it authorized the origination of the great appropriation bills, constituting the mainspring of the Government, in defiance of uninterrupted usage, and, as I submit, the spirit of the Constitution.
Else why has God put His love of praise into the heart of every child which is born into the world, and entwined it into the holiest filial and family affections, as the earliest mainspring of good actions?
Find the mainspring of achievement, and you hold in your hand the secret of the world's mechanism.
Curiosity, that mainspring of the Indian character, had brought the chiefs, big and little, to see with their own eyes the great Captain of the Long Knives.
Capable of sacrifice to their country, personal ambition is, nevertheless, themainspring of their actions.
It was the silicon bronzemainspring of his non-magnetic watch.
He handed Jill the ribbon of bronze that had been the mainspring of his watch.
The mainspring is a long steel ribbon fixed at one end to an arbor (the watchmaker's name for a spindle or axle), round which it is tightly wound.
In the latter it has been rendered unnecessary by the introduction of the going-barrel by Swiss watchmakers, who formed teeth on the edge of the mainspringbarrel to drive the train of wheels.
The fusee is still used for marine chronometers, for some clocks that have a mainspring and pendulum, and occasionally for watches.
The teeth of the mainspring drum gear with a cog on the minute-hand shaft, which also carries one of the cogs of the escapement train.
The hour-hand shaft A (solid black) can be moved round inside the cog B, driven by the mainspring drum.
Far away to the north, beyond the Potomac, beneath the shadow of the Capitol at Washington, was the mainspring of the invader's strength.
Mind you, I wouldn't call that a high motive, but in a young man it's a kind of a mainspring that sets him a-going and keeps the works busy until he can get better motive power.
But don't despair; I'm trying to put a new mainspring in the boy.
Some one has got to contrive a new mainspring for the sons of millionaires--they're so plenty these days.
It lay in the thought that I, the humble captain of hussars, should ever be thought of as the suitor of the greatest beauty and the richest dowry of the day: here was the mainspring of my flattered pride.
It would seem, however, to be the natural reaction produced by a tremendous national calamity, under which the mainspring of the collective mind temporarily gives way and the psychical equilibrium is upset.
She is charged with making interest the mainspring of her action in her intercourse with other nations.
In vain the friends of the delegates declared that economic interests were not the mainspring of their deliberate action and that nothing was further from their intention than to angle for a mandate for those countries.
In the laws of Connecticut, as well as in all those of New England, we find the germ and gradual development of that township independence which is the life and mainspring of American liberty at the present day.
The man of the bestial conception of life, "the savage, acknowledges life only in himself; the mainspring of his life is personal enjoyment.
The mainspring was coiled round the outside of the movement, so that the case formed a barrel, and was wound by the stem.
Consists of a specially grooved cone-shaped pulley interposed between the mainspring barrel and the great or driving wheel of a watch or clock.
The driving power is a mainspringacting by a chain on a fusee, and governed by what is known as the Chronometer or Detent Escapement, with, as a rule, the cylindrical balance spring.
Unequal mainspring pull is less felt in the quick train.
The faults of this device had been the need of a thick watch to give it room, and the danger that a broken mainspring might destroy other parts of the movement in its recoil.
STOP WORKâAn arrangement for preventing the overwinding of a mainspring or a clock weight.
Illustration: Stackfreed Mainspring Barrel and Fusee] The shaft of the fusee was attached to the great wheel which drove the gears, and the other end of the cord was fastened to the mainspring barrel.
The first improvements, and, in fact, the only ones for nearly two hundred years, were directed toward doing away with the unequal pressure of the mainspring and thus make the watch keep better time.
The hairspring then reverses it and swings it until the jewel-pin again starts the lever in the other direction, releasing the escape-wheel from which it receives another "impulse" and so on as long as the mainspring is kept wound.
He invented a mainspring barrel and a hair-spring stud which were later adopted by the Waltham Company.
By "the ratchet" in a watch, chronometer or clock with mainspring is meant the ratchet fastened to the barrel arbor to prevent the mainspring from slipping back when it is being wound.
This is the way in which it worked: The mainspring slowly turned the barrel; this gradually unwound the cord from the fusee and caused the fusee to turn.
