They are the very foundations of successful speaking.
"To dig the foundations out from under that cabin with?"
A momentary paroxysm seemed to shake the very foundations of his being.
Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Yet they made their way to the foundations, carrying their explosives, despite the furnace-like heat.
How can one solitary person without help and without support lay the foundations of such a noble construction?
The world has never been exactly alike any two successive days from the time its foundations were laid to the present moment.
The soil told of the neighbourhood of the mountain, whose granite foundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of some huge oak.
So if, at present, the law of pardon were practiced in all countries, in a short time the world would be disordered, and the foundations of human life would crumble.