A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
