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• The following conclusions are drawn up chiefly from Gartner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford's sister, the friend and companion who had been so much to her, should not be more visibly regretted. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• In the early days of the sewing machine its sales were chiefly for family use, but this is now no longer the case. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• It consists chiefly of the four following articles. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Chiefly, I fear, for the sake of the money I get. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the Universal, of which at one time twelve hundred were in use. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• This constitution was chiefly the joint production of a worthy philosopher Sieyès, who was one of the three consuls, and Bonaparte. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• It was probably chiefly Egyptian. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• It is chiefly rose red, then blue, a metallic, mid-blue, and a very soft dark blue. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The person to whom the world is chiefly indebted for the practical application of gas lighting is Mr. Winsor, who had been a merchant in London. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• His lighting must have been poor, and chiefly firelight, but there was probably always some fire in the village, summer or winter. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• The manufactures of Flanders were carried on chiefly with Spanish and English wool. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• And it was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• I get chiefly patients who can't pay me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.

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