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Bedrock

noun

Solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil.

Principles from which other truths can be derived. Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals. "Let's get down to basics"

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... One reaches the bedrock of French's curiously sane conception of war when one asks him to define war. In dealing with those gentlemen who tell us that the Boer War was fought under such abnormal conditions that it is useless as a ground-work for conclusions ...

— Sir John French - An Authentic Biography • Cecil Chisholm

... is on Bonanza Creek, claim ninety-six, below; There may be millions in it, and there may not; none will know Until he gets to bedrock or till bedrock comes to him— For Arthur takes it easy and is strictly ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... He is one of the biggest and finest-looking men you could find. He is a man whom no one could despise, for he has nothing despicable about him. But, best of all, he is true, and that, I think, is the bedrock of all virtues." ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... stronghold which commanded all the basin of the river from the incoming of the stream of Eure. The Seine and its tributaries have cut vast plateaux some four hundred feet in height, through chalk and debris piled above the Jurassic bedrock that crops out here and there, as it does at Bray. On the right bank of the river, at the summit of a huge curve, the city lies between the valley of Darnetal, that is watered by Robec and his mate Aubette, and the valley ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... as a delegate at the Springfield convention and heard the famous speech of Lincoln. According to Mr. Bonham, "The speech was prepared with unusual care, every paragraph and sentence carefully weighed. The firm bedrock of principles, the issues of the campaign on which he proposed to stand and fight his battles, were all well considered, and his arguments were incontrovertible. In that memorable speech culminated all the grand thoughts he had ever uttered, embodying divinity, ...

— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

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