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Example sentences for "principal part"

  • I witnessed, in principal part, a great tragedy resulting from a quarrel between high officers of the Union Army.

  • He drew out from his left the principal part of his effective troops under Generals Gideon J.

  • The gymnastic exercises, for which a place is provided in the woods, with the necessary apparatus, form a principal part of the instructions of this seminary.

  • The greatest part of the religious service of the brotherhood consists of music; for this reason music constitutes a principal part of their education.

  • These presents form a principal part of the emoluments of the governor of the north-east coast, and consequently all new appointments of regents are for his advantage.

  • What could be expected by a government that derived a principal part of its revenue by the encouragement of vice, by the farms of gaming, cock-fighting, and opium shops?

  • Body, gross, majority, main part, greater part, principal part.

  • Essence, principal part, essential part, best part.

  • To obtain reparation of breach of structure in any part, rest is a principal part of the treatment; and in the case of the rectum and other mucous canals it is preĆ«minently required.

  • It is therefore a principal part of your wisdom and watchfulness, to avoid the opportunities of sinning, and keep out as many impediments as may be in your own way.

  • And make it a principal part of your study, to know what every thing in your hand is good for to your Master's use; and how it is that he would have you use it.

  • Our rivers abound with fish of various kinds, which at particular seasons derive a principal part of their food from insects, as the numerous species of the salmon and carp genus.

  • But, of all our cattle none are more valuable and important to us than our flocks; to them we look not only for a principal part of our food, but also for clothing and even light.

  • The number of birds that derive the whole or a principal part of their subsistence from insects is, as is universally known, very great, and includes species of almost every order.

  • A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part.

  • The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.

  • Of these new attempts the Melo-dramas constitute a principal part.

  • On presenting this Volume to my Country, it is not necessary to enter into a particular account of those voyages whose journals form the principal part of it, as they will be found, I trust, to explain themselves.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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