a tower of strength
a pillar of strength

She could see what a tower of strength he might have been.

He has been a tower of strength to us all.

I'd forgotten what a tower of strength you could be.

Colin was a tower of strength during the next few days.

Your name will be a tower of strength when I use it as a reference.

The other one, the maid, has been a tower of strength.

"Your patients must think you a tower of strength."

Whatever his faults, he was a tower of strength and inspiration.

She was a tower of strength, giving me lessons on a weekly basis.

Yes, she was a tower of strength, that woman.

He was a tower of strength, set to serve the demanding mouths about him.

I fully recognize what a tower of strength you could become in that daunting task.

In the most trying times you have been a tower of strength and optimism for all of us.

"Little Brother is a tower of strength to everybody.

In combat, the Indian was a tower of strength.

Bruce Smith - any team that has him has a tower of strength.

"That's a good hockey club and we have to play better," said Stevens, who has been a tower of strength in the series.

"He was a tower of strength and truly a man of honor."

We shall prove a tower of strength for it.

Because Lucy has been a tower of strength,' he informed her candidly.

John seems a tower of strength and reason.

"Yes-and I really do feel that she will be a tower of strength.

"My mother was very capricious, but around 1935-36 she became a tower of strength," he wrote in his memoir.

What a tower of strength to the weakening pitcher!

Finally, to my daughter who was a pillar of strength.

I was a pillar of strength for others as a profession!

By contrast, he presented himself as a pillar of strength.

She had been a pillar of strength, our only hope in this disastrous matter.

In our family, we think of my mother as a pillar of strength.

Despite this, his brothers view him as a pillar of strength and are at a loss when he is injured or absent.

She'd been a pillar of strength for the children, always making the upheavals in their lives seem like grand adventures.

He was a true giver of life and a pillar of strength to us all.

"My wife, as you can see," said Charters, "has been a pillar of strength."

The American consumer, a pillar of strength through the economic turmoil of early 2001, is looking shaky.

He is a pillar of strength who tries to handle an artist on the edge and go on with the show.

"I am not a pillar of strength and calm," she told a Norwegian newspaper in May.

He was a pillar of strength in his advice, counsel, and generosity to the mission of our foundation.

You seemed to think of everything in the book, the mother was a pillar of strength and taught absolutely everything she knew to her son.

As a survivor, his heroism and leadership was a pillar of strength and a model for future generations.

She was a pillar of strength.

Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.

To all who knew him, Ben was a pillar of strength and a man of great warmth and compassion.

The congregation is still in place today, and the church remains a pillar of strength and pride in the black community.

When her husband had died so soon after their marriage, her father had been a pillar of strength, no tears, just acceptance.

Argentina, until recently a pillar of strength in South America, is projecting negative growth of 3.5 percent this year.

"He's a pillar of strength," David Cone said.

After Carlton's untimely demise, you were quite a pillar of strength during the ordeal."

"She lived a very hard, isolated life," said her daughter Martha Bell, "but always she was a pillar of strength."

His neck was a pillar of strength with that pulse beating in the most vulnerable hollow of his throat.