Largely

Examples

• The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Bessemer process is now largely used in treating copper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Machines with fine metal card teeth are now largely used for this purpose, and of which the planetary napping machine of Ott, patent No. 344,981, July 6, 1886, is an example. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Netherlands figured largely in the crusades. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And an army of emigrés, French nobles and gentlemen, an army largely of officers, was allowed to accumulate close to the frontier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The question of stacking ensilage is sometimes raised, being urged upon our people by the practice of our English friends, who are experimenting quite largely in this direction. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The underlying phenomena were similar, the difference consisting largely in the arrangement of the circuits and apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Special provision was also made for injecting streams of pulverized coal in such manner as to create the largely extended zone of combustion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But we have already seen how it entails extinction; and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly declares. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was seen that the volunteers of the Mexican war largely composed the pioneers to settle up the Pacific coast country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This has largely transferred the sphere of action of the sewing machine from the family to the factory. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I have been largely employed in cases of family scandal, acting in the capacity of confidential man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We have seen the Roman Republic wrecked, and here we see the church failing in its world mission very largely through ineffective electoral methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had made a small fortune for a boy, and felt that he owed it largely to his use of the telegraph. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The human body is a much more varied and complex machine than any ever devised by man; personal peculiarities, as well as fuel values, influence very largely the diet of an individual. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The difference between them is largely one of time-span, influencing the directness of the connection of means and ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the first place, history shows that wherever polygamy has been largely allowed the race has deteriorated. Plato. The Republic.
• It was largely in the interest of their practical uses that the Roman regar ded both plants and animals; his chief motive was not a disinterested love of truth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Among the fibers employed in rope making that of the hemp plant long held the supremacy, though in recent years it has been largely supplemented by other and stronger fibers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Throughout 1916 she remained largely on the defensive, and there were rumours of a separate peace with Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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