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Example sentences for "main object"

  • The latter, however, appears to have been Hiller's main object, and that winter he organised a sort of social circle which held weekly meetings at the home of one or the other of its members in turn.

  • During the delay thus caused I did all I could to attain my main object--an introduction to the King--and for this purpose made use of my former acquaintance with the court musical director, Count Redern.

  • The Roman [Pagan] religion was essentially domestic, and it was a main object of the legislator to surround marriage with every circumstance of dignity and solemnity.

  • My main object in this paragraph has been to try to make the reader see it; but I fear I shall have succeeded very ill.

  • To maintain that it is so is no part of my main object.

  • The stigma, which it is the highest interest of society to attach to mendicancy, it became a main object of theologians to remove.

  • However they be generated, their existence is admitted, their cultivation is a main object of morals, and the pleasure derived from their exercise a leading motive to virtue.

  • These fears were to the ancients the very definition of superstition, and their destruction was a main object both of the Epicurean and of the Stoic.

  • Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could understand; evident from; experimental psychology; greatly pleased; high water; international conference; living waters; main army; main body; main crops; main force; main line; main lines; main object; main road; maintain himself; maintain order; maintain peace; maintain them; maintain themselves; make herself; middle life; short point; then thou; three species; water supply