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Examples

• The following conclusions are drawn up chiefly from Gartner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• 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. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It consists chiefly of the four following articles. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Chiefly, I fear, for the sake of the money I get. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the Universal, of which at one time twelve hundred were in use. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This constitution was chiefly the joint production of a worthy philosopher Sieyès, who was one of the three consuls, and Bonaparte. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was probably chiefly Egyptian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is chiefly rose red, then blue, a metallic, mid-blue, and a very soft dark blue. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His lighting must have been poor, and chiefly firelight, but there was probably always some fire in the village, summer or winter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The manufactures of Flanders were carried on chiefly with Spanish and English wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And it was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I get chiefly patients who can't pay me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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