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Meanings of consist chiefly in English

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Usage of consist chiefly in English
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The exercises consist chiefly in climbing a thick rope dangling from a cross-beam.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
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The British imports consist chiefly of coal, cotton fabrics and machinery.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Indeed, some of our rock-deposits consist chiefly of the fragments of their remains.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 / A Magazin...
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His works consist chiefly of apologues and didactic and descriptive poems.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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Yet it seems, when you are in it, to' consist chiefly of cathedral.
Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
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Their rites consist chiefly of dancing, singing, and killing sacrificial animals.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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Presents to Indians to consist chiefly of arms, ammunition, and whisky.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870
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The wit of the thing seemed to consist chiefly in the wonderful names chosen.
Miss Mackenzie
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These ruins consist chiefly of walls, columns, and great monolithic door- and window- frames.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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His works consist chiefly of frescoes and altar-pieces and many of them (e.g.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Its contribution "would consist chiefly in recruiting personnel charged with visiting the vessels."
The Guardian
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The population seemed to consist chiefly of semi-civilised Indians, living as usual in half-finished mud hovels.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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His works consist chiefly of plays and sonnets.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
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Accruals consist chiefly of wages, payroll taxes, interest payable and employee benefits accruals such as pension funds.
Reuters
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The virtue of the Stoics seems to consist chiefly in a firm temper and a sound understanding.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
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These heads, it will be perceived, consist chiefly of propositions which are warmly contested in our country.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
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