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Example sentences for "found chiefly"

  • The ostrich is widely dispersed, but is found chiefly in the desert and steppe regions.

  • His other writings are to be found chiefly in the Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences et les arts de Chinois (15 vols.

  • Defn: Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidæ, found chiefly in Asia.

  • It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region.

  • The good of curbing the passions is found chiefly in those passions which are most difficult to curb, viz.

  • Again, good as defined by reason and put into our operations as something right and due, is found chiefly in commutations and distributions in respect of another person, and on a basis of equality.

  • Thus the good which exists in the act of reason, is found chiefly in reason's command, but not in its counsel or its judgment, as stated above (Q.

  • The good of being firm in holding to the good defined by reason, against the impulse of passion, is found chiefly in perils of death, which are most difficult to withstand.

  • Tin is a white metal, almost as white as silver, it is found chiefly in Cornwall.

  • Native silver is found chiefly in the mines of Potosi.

  • Brown coal and black coal, the former sometimes called wood coal, is found chiefly in diluvial or alluvial ground.

  • It is procured from an ore which is found chiefly in Hungary and Norway.

  • A straggling, much branched, and woody shrub, from six to eighteen inches high, found chiefly on the mountainous heaths of the North.

  • The Common Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia officinalis) is to be found chiefly on the sea shore, but it often extends for miles inland, especially along the banks of the estuaries of rivers.

  • It is found chiefly in copses and thickets, especially in the neighbourhood of towns and villages, and flowers in April and May.

  • Gold is found chiefly in Hungary and Transylvania, and in smaller quantity in Salzburg and Tyrol.

  • It inhabits Australia, and is found chiefly in New South Wales and Tasmania.

  • America, hunted for its fur, which is soft and of a grey colour; found chiefly in the mountainous districts of Peru and Chile.

  • The Karnabattus, or Karnabhatus, are a Telugu weaving caste, found chiefly in the Godavari district.

  • Stuart writes that they are "found chiefly in the districts of North Arcot, South Arcot, and Chingleput.

  • The Konda Doras are a caste of hill cultivators, found chiefly in Vizagapatam.

  • It is recorded, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, that "the caste is found chiefly in the Kasaragod taluk of South Canara, and in the northern part of Malabar.

  • It is found chiefly in the South of England, becoming less abundant as we go north.

  • In our own country it is found chiefly in the South-west of England, South and West Wales, but does not occur in either Scotland or Ireland.

  • It is found chiefly in the southern and eastern portions of England, but its distribution also includes Northamptonshire, Herefordshire, and Northumberland.

  • Of general distribution thruout the State but found chiefly in more open situations in vicinity of streams and ponds and in cultivated sections.

  • Common resident west of the Cascades; found chiefly in vicinity of water.

  • Pacific coast district; north to British Columbia; south over plateau region of Mexico; found chiefly in the mountains.


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