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Sentences starting with chiefly

Chiefly it was the present that he wished to dwell upon; but it was the call of the future which stirred him to action. [13]
Chiefly from what she didn't say. [4]
Chiefly by knowing how to choose my aquaintances. [2]

Sentences ending with chiefly

He led me to a room which was composed of mats and bamboo pillars chiefly. [11]
I've had a good time, Greenock--thanks to you, chiefly. [11]
It goes to America, chiefly. [5]

Short sentences using chiefly

Yet so, chiefly, it was. [7]
These were chiefly from Newcastle. [9]

More example sentences with the word chiefly in them

I have been writing chiefly from Naples and St. Petersburg, and now and then from Constantinople. [6]
You will not wonder that I address myself chiefly to those who are just leaving academic life for the sterner struggle and the larger tasks of matured and instructed manhood. [3]
Ismail granted it with reluctance, chiefly because he disliked any interference with his comforts, and Dicky was one of them--in some respects the most important. [11]
My prospective visit will not be a professional one, as I resigned my office in 1882, and am no longer known chiefly as a teacher or a practitioner. [6]
The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
New poetry; by which, he says, he means chiefly old poetry that is new to the reader. [6]
The time was when the divine authority of his gospel rested chiefly upon the miracles he is reported to have wrought. [6]
The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. [5]
Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. [5]
The Queen's garments were chiefly variegated bath-towels, and she was rubbing her beaming countenance and ample bosom with hair-oil and essence of new-mown hay. [11]
I recall her well, chiefly as a sad and beautiful woman, stately save when she kissed me with passion and said that I bore my father's look. [9]
But he was wealthy, had an intense admiration for Mrs. Falchion, and had managed to secure her in his boat, to separate from the rest of the picnic party-- chiefly through his inefficient rowing. [11]
And how beggared was that frugal heart, accustomed to spend all its store of love on so few objects--nay, chiefly on one alone who was now no more! [10]
His whole time was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince Vasili's house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and his beautiful daughter Helene. [2]
The literature which was furnished for Myrtle's improvement was chiefly of a religious character, and, however interesting and valuable to those to whom it was adapted, had not been chosen with any wise regard to its fitness for her special conditions. [6]
Her father, too, was chiefly concerned for her safety and for his yacht. [11]
What men chiefly wanted was the opportunity to work. [4]
Behind Lady Haldwell's visit curiosity chiefly ran. [11]
Once, indeed, he ventured to refer to "the meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan," but he chiefly restricted himself to subjects such as a fastidious conventionalism would approve as having a certain fitness for poetical treatment. [6]
Though the coming trial had not been advertised in the papers, so as to draw together a rabble of betting men and ill-conditioned lookers-on, there was a considerable gathering, made up chiefly of the villagers and the students of the two institutions. [6]
After the Colonel took his leave, the General talked a while with Washington--his talk consisting chiefly of instructions about the clerical duties of the place. [5]
This leads me to what I chiefly wanted to say in this paper, to the cause of discontent which seems to me altogether the most serious, altogether the most difficult to deal with. [4]
He was listening to the general's report--which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo-Zaymishche--as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war. [2]
Three lamps fastened to stands abundantly lighted this work-room, but chiefly a figure standing on a high trestle, which Polykarp's fingers were industriously moulding. [10]
You cannot pretend to lecture chiefly for men like that,--a Mississippi raft might as well take an ocean-steamer in tow. [3]
It was alive to its own interests, chiefly of agriculture and the river. [11]
Yet she ought to find recovery on his couch, if anywhere; for he had surrounded it with images of the saints, pious maxims, and little relics, bought chiefly from the venders who frequented the tavern. [10]
I have always to explain, 'In me you must not look for great attainments: what seems to you the result of reading and study is chiefly spontaneous and intuitive. [14]
I was unknown to a great number of the men of both villages, and familiar with but very few-- chiefly those with whom I had a gossiping acquaintance. [11]
Mrs. Clymer Ketchum, though her acquaintances were chiefly in the world of fortune and of fashion, had yet a certain weakness for what she called clever people. [6]
With civilised nations this primary check acts chiefly by restraining marriages. [1]
The members of this party, chiefly civilians and to whom Arakcheev belonged, thought and said what men who have no convictions but wish to seem to have some generally say. [2]
We need in this country not only the scholar, but the virtuoso, who hoards the treasures which he loves, it may be chiefly for their rarity and because others who know more than he does of their value set a high price upon them. [3]
But at last these dark suggestions settled down into a belief that Jean took her chiefly for ballast; and thereafter she was familiarly called "Femme de Ballast. [11]
What chiefly struck them was the larger number of dusky faces, and the fanciful garb of the Magians. [10]
Flattering advertisements took them to numbers of huge apartment-houses chiefly distinguishable from tenement-houses by the absence of fire-escapes on their facades, till Mrs. March refused to stop at any door where there were more than six bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes on either hand. [8]
Characteristically, he considered the troublesome affair chiefly from its business side. [9]
And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries, and not the necessaries, of life. [7]
Cook remarks that the superiority in personal appearance "which is observable in the erees or nobles in all the other islands (of the Pacific) is found in the Sandwich Islands"; but this may be chiefly due to their better food and manner of life. [1]
Now what is the object in life of this great, growing class that has money and leisure, what does it chiefly care for? [4]
Jones, on about the middle of February, backed out altogether, laying the blame chiefly on Mackay and the others, who, he said, had decided not to invest. [5]
In due season, the growth of knowledge, chiefly under the form of that part of knowledge called science, so changes the views of the universe that many of its long-unchallenged legends become no more than nursery tales. [6]
In addition to the formal evening and dinner parties, a large company, chiefly of men, gathered there every day, supping at midnight and staying till three in the morning. [2]
This shortness of the arms is apparently due to their greater use, and is an unexpected result: but sailors chiefly use their arms in pulling, and not in supporting weights. [1]
It thus appears that the upper branches are used chiefly or exclusively for pushing and fencing. [1]
It was said that Rostopchin had expelled all Frenchmen and even all foreigners from Moscow, and that there had been some spies and agents of Napoleon among them; but this was told chiefly to introduce Rostopchin's witty remark on that occasion. [2]
So it was that Pierre and His People chiefly concerned those who had been wounded by Fate, and had suffered the robberies of life and time while they did their work in the wide places. [11]
So now he talked in his low, soothing voice, telling Ingolby that the operation had put him out of danger, that the pain now felt came chiefly from the nerves of the eye, and that quiet and darkness were necessary. [11]
The house is still standing, but the statues, the minarets, the arches, and the memory of the great Lord Timothy Dexter live chiefly in tradition, and in the work which he bequeathed to posterity, and of which I shall say a few words. [6]
His interest, however, still appears to be chiefly in his timber claim on Lake Bigler (Tahoe), though we are never to hear of it again after this letter. [5]
Also, from Nahoum's spies he learned of plots and counterplots, chiefly on Achmet's part; and these he hid from Kaid, while he trusted Nahoum--and not without reason, as yet. [11]
As this jarring sound is made chiefly during the breeding-season, it has been considered as a love-song; but it is perhaps more strictly a love- call. [1]
Their number was soon greatly reduced, chiefly by fighting with the English and with each other. [1]
The chamber he slept in was over the room which Elsie chiefly occupied at this season. [6]
Prince Andrew remained silent, and his expression was so forbidding that Pierre addressed his remarks chiefly to the good-natured battalion commander. [2]
He said the ship had proved herself, chiefly because of his reforms. [11]
The details I shall give will relate chiefly to the first century. [3]
It will be seen that what the surgeon wanted consisted chiefly of opiates, stimulants, cathartics, plasters, and materials for bandages. [3]
The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed 'speculum mundi' Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. [9]
It is the result of the puncture of an insect, and occurs chiefly in May. [10]
Antigonus closed his report with the impudent whistle of the Greek athlete; he dwelt chiefly on his astonishment at Melissa's absence. [10]
I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry. [7]
The books he read were chiefly historical, and on these he spent a certain sum every year. [2]
As he stood questioning, chiefly about Ridley Court and its people, a coach showed on the hill, and came dashing down and past. [11]
He desired the prosperity of his countrymen, partly because they were his countrymen, but chiefly to show to the world that free men could be prosperous. [7]
He learned to play pelota, the Basque game taken from the Spaniards, and he even allowed himself a little of that oratory which, as they say, has its habitat chiefly in Gascony. [11]
For the big place in Park Lane had really been home to him, chiefly because, or alone because, Jasmine had made it what it was; because in every room, in every corner, was the product of her taste and design. [11]
All struggle for place above the other in the world of commerce and society, though chiefly it is the English versus the French in these days; and the policy of the governor is the policy of the country. [11]
About a thousand persons had died in a twelvemonth, we are told, and, as we may infer, chiefly from this cause. [3]
I've lived among people of culture, and I've found out that culture chiefly consists of fixed ideas, and obstruction to progress, of hating the President,--of knowing the right people and eating fish with a fork. [9]
And it was Paul who was chiefly instrumental in freeing the message from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sending it ringing down the ages to us. [9]
I shall remember our trip to Vesuvius for many a day--partly because of its sight-seeing experiences, but chiefly on account of the fatigue of the journey. [5]
The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. [7]
Civil courts are organized chiefly for trials of individuals --or, at most, a few individuals acting in concert, and this in quiet times, and on charges of crimes well defined in the law. [7]
But moving about on this mountain is not a holiday pastime; and we were chiefly anxious to discover a practicable mode of descent into the great wilderness basin on the south, which we must traverse that afternoon before reaching the hospitable shanty on Mud Pond. [4]
They flourished chiefly on the opposite side of the Beau Cheval, whose waters flowed so waywardly--now with a rush, now silently away through long reaches of country. [11]
He relied chiefly on his own reckless obstinacy--which he liked to call firm determination--Nemu's cunning, and the love-philter. [10]
That sincerity which often comes with waking showed her clearly what chiefly concerned her about her father's illness. [2]
The houses were of wood, and chiefly painted white, sweet and cool in the vast greenness. [11]
Of the years of his captivity the records were few; the book was chiefly concerned with his career in Jersey. [11]
It had supporters of Barouche chiefly in the yards and mills. [11]
An' y've 'eard o' Julius Caesar, an' Nebucha'nezzar, an' Florence Noightingyle, 'aven't you--you wich is chiefly bellyband and gullet. [11]
It invites comment, now, chiefly because it is the first surviving document in the long human story. [5]
This scrip is not going to circulate over an extensive range of country, but will be confined chiefly to the vicinity of the canal. [7]
The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the political news. [2]
If he had not enough for his week's board and lodging, he borrowed it, chiefly of Jowett, who used him profitably at times to pass the word about a horse, or bring news of a possible deal. [11]
I wouldn't trouble myself about the affectations of people who go to this or that series of concerts chiefly because it is fashionable. [6]
The story of my first visit to Europe is briefly this: my object was to study the medical profession, chiefly in Paris, and I was in Europe about two years and a half, from April, 1833, to October, 1835. [6]
What a life must be that of one whose years are passed chiefly in and about the great Abbey! [6]
Is it too much to say that whether the war is hopeless or not for the North depends chiefly on the answer to the question, whether the North has virtue and manhood enough to persevere in the contest so long as its resources hold out? [6]
They often hear much better preaching than the average minister, for he hears himself chiefly, and they hear abler men and a variety of them. [6]
And during that moment of suspense he thought of a hundred things, chiefly that, for the sake of the family--the family! [11]
Washington's distress of mind was chiefly on Laura's account. [5]
You have studied medicine and surgery, not chiefly in books, but at the bedside and in the operating amphitheatre. [3]
It seems to me that it is chiefly because of his political views that my father is reluctant to speak of going to Moscow; for he foresees the encounters that would result from his way of expressing his views regardless of anybody. [2]
I have studied mathematics so much that I have grown fond of certainties, of demonstrations, and medicine deals chiefly in probabilities. [6]
Every remark he made delighted his hearers and compelled their applause; he overheard people say he was exceedingly bright--they were chiefly mammas and marriageable young ladies. [5]
There was little love between him and his father, and that was chiefly the father's fault. [11]
Massachusetts is unlike Louisiana, Florida unlike Tennessee, Georgia is unlike California, Pennsylvania is unlike Minnesota, and so on, and the unlikeness is not alone or chiefly in physical features. [4]
The countess had long wished for such a box, but as she did not want to cry just then she glanced indifferently at the portrait and gave her attention chiefly to the box for cards. [2]

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