Mostly

Examples

• They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But men of your character are mostly so independent. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Norfolk was what he had mostly to talk of: there he had been some time, and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They spoke low, as people watching and waiting mostly do; as people in a dark room, watching and waiting for Lightning, always do. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Mostly they come for skill--or idleness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A new occasion was mostly spectacular to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meyers never told his wife what horses he was playing and she won or lost, mostly lost, and talked all the time. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Miss Wade mostly lives abroad, Mr Clennam. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When the son was a little child, it was up and down these stairs that he mostly came and went to his father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There were a great many people, mostly of the decent sort, at the bar. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They belonged mostly to the Caucasian group of races and to the blond and northern subdivision of the group, to the Nordic race that is. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His troops were still east of the river, and the steamers that had carried Nelson's division up were mostly at Clarksville to bring Smith's division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A great variety of lamps was made of the platinum-iridium type, mostly with thermal devices to regulate the temperature of the burner and prevent its being melted by an excess of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To improve such earthenware and to best decorate it, are the objects around which modern inventions have mostly clustered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He loved his mistress and John--the man who fed him--but was mostly indifferent to the rest of the world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mostly these men have worked against great discouragement, with insufficient funds and small help or support from the mass of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The molds are made of cast-iron in sections of such size and weight as will be most convenient for handling, mostly in pieces not exceeding two by four feet in rectangular dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thimonnier made quite a large number of machines, constructed mostly of wood, and which were used to make army clothing at Paris. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is used mostly in tanning soft, glovey upper leather, which when finished makes a very tough yet soft and pliable leather for footwear. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The shops were blazing and packed with women, in the streets were men, mostly men, miners of all ages. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They had been organized in guilds, and were mostly their own employers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And mostly in difficulties, yet mostly lavish, too, in the expensive articles of print and paper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the holy vision of her radiant beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mostly I slept in the mornings, and in the afternoons, sometimes, I went to the races, and late to the mechanotherapy treatments. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They were mostly drawn from that which, when such distinctions existed, was denominated the lower rank of society. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The look and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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