"Principally" Quotes from Famous Books
... represent letters and words, and not ideas; and the root words of which it is constructed, instead of being arbitrary sounds and signs, as in Bishop Wilkin's philosophical language, or sounds that have a real or fancied natural meaning, as in Stephen Pearl Andrews' "Alwato," are taken principally from living languages, the English being more largely drawn upon ... — Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various
... is principally agricultural machinery, its iron ploughs being copies of the English, and its reapers of the American, while the dairy machines and apparatus are its ... — Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
... This measure, however, appears principally important, as it was the first of a series, and was followed afterwards by others of a more marked and practical nature. These measures, taken together, profess to establish two principles, which the Allied Powers ... — The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... of the second hour were principally in the lower half of the glass when the sermon concluded. An approving murmur followed, and the clergyman, having given out a hymn, took his seat with much self-congratulation, and endeavored to read the effect of his eloquence in the visages of the people. But while voices from all ... — Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells
... "You, principally, by your reception of him. He knew all about it before he came here to me. Of course he hasn't been to your house, and probably never will go there again. I wouldn't in ... — A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike • Charles King
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