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• But I think chiefly Mr. (13)
• Chiefly, my friend, into the Tory ranks. (10)
• Here it is chiefly social. (10)
• Chiefly on behalf of her family. (10)
• He gave concerts, chiefly for charity. (3)
• Aimed at Grant-and Rosenstern, chiefly. (8)
• Septimus of course occupied her chiefly. (10)
• We exchanged passes, the prince chiefly attacking. (10)
• I chose the place chiefly on account of it and the pines. (10)
• I find some strange nonsense, chiefly caused by punctuation. (14)
• Jeff had spoken to her, but had looked chiefly at the younger. (9)
• To Anne, it chiefly wore the prospect of an hour of agitation. (4)
• What his face expressed chiefly was a bland and beneficent caution. (9)
• I learned that he was supposed to depend chiefly on my vast resources. (10)
• Even the exceptionally cynical are chiefly to be accused of bad manners. (10)
• These were of all nations, but chiefly Americans, with some French Canadians. (9)
• I will believe that I am chiefly responsible for inducing you to contract it. (10)
• Her curiosity was chiefly for detailed accounts of Catalonia and the Pyrenees. (10)
• These shared her heart: her time was given chiefly to her house and her servants. (4)
• It had been done, however, for the sake of peace; and chiefly for his well-being. (10)
• And we are directed to the sinuosities for posts of observation chiefly instructive. (10)
• The incident is chiefly remarkable to us as a relief to what I need not recount to you. (10)
• They differed from the Clavichord chiefly in the method of setting the string in vibration. (3)
• Thus they tend to supplement the studies of Clementi which are chiefly concerned with technic. (3)
• Chiefly her error was, to try to be thinking at all amid the fevered tangle of her sensations. (10)
• My grandfather, indeed, was concerned chiefly in getting away from the world and its wickedness. (9)
• Gyp sat by the fire, very disturbed; chiefly because she was not really upset at having hurt him. (8)
• It was she and her daughters who would be chiefly annoyed by the Lapham connection; she knew that. (9)
• Some polite Bostonians knew him chiefly on this side, and judged him to their own detriment from it. (9)
• I was reading right and left in every direction, but chiefly in that of poetry, criticism, and fiction. (9)
• The first impression of him was, that he was chiefly neck-cloth, coat-collar, grand head, and gruffness. (10)
• Both are excellent composers, the former working chiefly in vocal forms, the latter in the orchestral field. (3)
• His brown coat struggles out of the obscurity of the background, but it is chiefly background clothing him. (10)
• The village of Barton was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows. (4)
• Today, Mendelssohn the classicist is less admired, and his music will live chiefly for its romantic qualities. (3)
• In music he owed his development chiefly to Balakireff, though he composed at an early age, almost by instinct. (3)
• Often he could not make it appear right that he should merely please himself in what chiefly concerned himself. (9)
• He instances the horse, the yacht, and chiefly the sword, for proof, that the handsomest is the most effective. (10)
• About twenty colleges and universities, chiefly in the Middle West and Northwest, have established such schools. (16)
• Although =Camille Saint-Saëns= is known chiefly as a composer, he was, during his early years, a remarkable pianist. (3)
• At Boston chiefly, if not at Boston alone, was there a vigorous intellectual life among such authors as I have named. (9)
• The battle with Carpendike lasted three-quarters of an hour, during which he was chiefly and most effectively silent. (10)
• In the meantime my views of life had undergone a radical change, chiefly through my meeting a … peculiar personality. (12)
• It was chiefly composed of artisans, farmers, fishermen, and labourers, commanded by a merchant named William Pepperell. (19)
• The recent scene concerned chiefly the actors who had moved onward: it had touched Emilia but lightly, and him not at all. (10)
• A second opera, a mass, a concerto, and a choral symphony increased his fame, but he is identified chiefly with the cantata. (3)
• If it exist, it will be in a modified form, devoted chiefly to readable articles of a literary rather than of a news value. (16)
• Almost no climate did him any good: in 1880-1881, he chiefly suffered at Davos, and in the tempests of September, in Braemar. (2)
• His extensive reading of history had been focussed on the personality of heroes, chiefly knights errant, and revolutionaries. (8)
• The sturgeon is chiefly valuable for the roe or caviar which is found in it, but the meat finds ready sale, fresh or pickled. (20)
• Troyes found in the fort twelve cannon, chiefly six and eight pounders, three thousand pounds of powder, and ten pounds of lead. (19)
• I do now because I must appeal to you, as the one chiefly responsible, on whose head the whole weight of a dreadful error will fall. (10)
• During the first few years at Rome he composed chiefly church music and oratorios; in 1865, he took minor orders in the Church of Rome. (3)
• But this intention again was inchoate, floating, the stuff of an intention, rather than intention; an expression of temperament chiefly. (9)
• But he was reduced from the exercise of his analytic powers to a passivity in which he was chiefly conscious of her pathetic fascination. (9)
• His technic is noticeable chiefly for its superficial glitter of brilliant passages, which constitute a certain development in themselves. (3)
• She was chiefly to get an English maid, if at all possible, for the qualifications would more or less naturally follow from her nationality. (9)
• A brilliant pianist, he claims our attention chiefly on account of his etudes, introducing novel and extremely difficult problems of technic. (3)
• What the feminine relatives of the doctor chiefly resented was the fact that the young couple seemed to get on so perfectly well without them. (5)
• Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed. (4)
• The result, March eagerly owned, was better than the literary result, and he foresaw that the number would be sold and praised chiefly for its pictures. (9)
• The money came, and in the meantime we had formed acquaintances and entertained them; they were chiefly half-pay English military officers, dashing men. (10)
• The honor was wholly unexpected, and it brought Longfellow a distress which was chiefly for the gentleman who had procured him the impossible distinction. (9)
• They were chiefly poetry; and after the first essays in which I tasted the classic poets, they were chiefly the books of the modern poets. (9)
• Both of these were introduced into polite society, chiefly as small house instruments of limited compass, varied sizes, and frequently with elaborate decoration. (3)
• Elizabeth was chiefly struck by his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required. (4)

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