"Linchpin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has been welcomed in Asia. We have developed an historic new basis for Japanese-American friendship and cooperation, which is the linchpin ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... oval in shape, and they always wabbled. He whittled the axles out with his knife, and he made the hubs with it. He could get a tongue ready-made if he used a broom-handle or a hoop-pole, but that had in either case to be whittled so it could be fastened to the wagon; he even bored the linchpin holes with his knife if he could not get a gimlet; and if he could not get an auger, he bored the holes through the wheels with a red-hot poker, and then whittled them large enough with his knife. He had to use pine for nearly everything, because any other wood was too ...
— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells |
