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This rock unit consists chiefly of Silurian shale and sandstone that have been metamorphosed to high-grade schist and migmatite.
It was gregarious, and chiefly abounded on the acclivitous glades of the woods.
However, I remember her chiefly for the stage play The Woman in Black, which was adapted from one of her books.
Many hiking trails were opened up by the Aborigines, chiefly for hunting purposes.
I see there are also websites run by ex-vegans, apostates as it were, who left the fold chiefly for health reasons.
In all four areas, government seemed to consist chiefly of administrative controls.
The first generation of Keatsians were chiefly concerned with establishing Keats's texts and his biography.
Derived chiefly from petroleum and coal tar, aromatic hydrocarbons tend to be reactive.
Manila paper is made chiefly from old Manila hemp ropes and is valuable as a strong wrapping paper.
And chiefly, it says we actually are probably devotees of Mammon rather than the God of the poor and the debtor.
Ten years ago, Prestwick was known chiefly as the only place in Britain that Elvis Presley had ever set foot in.
Ecuador has its own supply of oil from the Amazon, but it sells this and buys refined oil, chiefly from Venezuela.
Omar Khayyam, known chiefly in Europe as a poet, combined trigonometry and approximation theory to solve algebraic equations using geometry.
The mythology and folklore of the Kutenai consist chiefly of cosmic and ethnic myths, animal tales, etc.
The creative instinct of the Kutenai women found expression chiefly in cedar-root basketry.
South Dublin planning officials pose 42 queries, chiefly regarding an environmental impact study and traffic management around the stadium.
The US group was known chiefly as a breeder of animals such as rats for laboratory experiments until it bought Inveresk last year.
The African tongues, mostly Mande, influenced Kriolu chiefly in the way that grammar is used.
Even so this was chiefly at the expense of Labour, while the Nationalist tide rose still higher on the backveld.
Made chiefly from riveted stainless steel and copper sheeting, these free-standing works are occasionally complemented with wood.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Well, I do not grudge the family if, as I believe is the case, it chiefly ranks upon the distaff side.
Epicureans and Stoics and Cynics were all interested chiefly, not in ontology or epistemology, but in ethics.
The diametric growth of the shell is effected by the growth of the radii and al, and chiefly by that of the former.
The illicit means employed in discriminative underselling are chiefly extortion and deception.
Under the line, Lucas found that the sea comprised a seventh part of solid contents, consisting chiefly of sea-salt.
In all these grasses the epidermal cells are chiefly long, rectangular or slightly hexagonal, with thin and plane walls.
This action is due chiefly to its progressive formation of calcium sulphydrate from the cystine group of the softer keratins.
Curaao consists of eruptive rocks, chiefly diorite and diabase, and is surrounded by coral reefs.
The observations recorded by Longstaff relate chiefly to various members of the satyrid group.
Escallonia, a genus of saxifragaceous shrubs and trees, natives chiefly of the Andes.
It is still in cottage gardens chiefly that the crown imperial hangs its royal head.
Of these pijoles there are several varieties, distinguishable chiefly by their colour.
It is said that echinacea varies greatly in quality due chiefly to the locality in which it grows.
For the rest, the three hours that followed sunrise I remember chiefly as a period of envelopment by clouds, and ever more clouds.
The Spanish army under cuesta did good service on this occasion, but it was chiefly by guarding a flank.
In those days they were called 'custodes,' chiefly I am afraid because they kept the rods.
Its dental formula is peculiar by reason chiefly of the reduction of the lower incisors.
When Jeanie and Butler retired, Mr. saddletree entered upon the business which chiefly interested the family.
The constitutional remedies are derived chiefly from the class of diffusible stimulants.
Iron, chiefly in the form of magnetic oxide, is present along the sea-coast and in the diluvium of rivers.
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