Laya's works, which chiefly owe their interest to the circumstances attending their production, were collected in 1836-1837.

We have made arrangements--it is to my wife that you chiefly owe it--that her boudoir shall be made as airtight as is practicable.

The ranks are well filled everywhere, and of late years the telegraph as an art or industry has shown relatively slight expansion, owing chiefly to the development of telephony.

But the motion for his removal, owing chiefly to the bad influence of his brother-in-law, the popular Lord Ossory, was rejected by 166 votes to 127.

It is, however, as a translator that Voss chiefly owes his place in German literature.

Religious conditions in Florida, owing chiefly to repeated mutations and instability in both civil and ecclesiastical regimes, were disheartening.

To the speculations in his Apocalyptical Key (1701) Fleming chiefly owes his posthumous fame.

His ability and energy did little to avert the naval collapse, owing chiefly to financial mismanagement and ill-advised appointments.

For the first three years of his imprisonment, owing chiefly to the wealth and influence of noble friends, Vaux was treated with comparative mildness.

Immediately after her death it was made public, and copies were rapidly multiplied, owing chiefly to the widespread influence of the Friars Preachers.