"Propping up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cultivated, although it is true that in common life men are wont to follow their particular affections, generous and selfish, without thought of extensive benevolence or calm self-love; and it is found necessary to counterbalance the advantage that the selfish principles gain in early life, by propping up the moral faculty with considerations of the surest mode of attaining the highest private happiness, and with views of the moral administration of the world by ...
— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain
... Judge's, I made straight for the cellar window, hoping to find the cane with the bundle of clothes still on it propping up ...
— Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier • Frances Trego Montgomery |
