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In it the coward and the courageous man chiefliest appear.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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Meanwhile Achilles yearned above all to meet Hector, son of Priam, in the fray; for with that blood chiefliest his spirit bade him sate Ares, stubborn lord of war.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882
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Therefore the folk lament him throughout the city, and woe unspeakable and mourning hast thou left to thy parents, Hector, but with me chiefliest shall grievous pain abide.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882
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There slay they one another, these guarding the dead corpse, while the men of Troy are fierce to hale him unto windy Ilios, and chiefliest noble Hector is fain to drag him, and his heart biddeth him fix the head on the stakes of the wall when he hath sundered it from the tender neck.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882
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And chiefliest his whose wintrier breath makes chill
Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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“When the Bishops at length had fallen prostrate, aimed at by the shafts of all, and there was no more trouble from them,” he afterwards wrote, reviewing this portion of his life, “then I turned my thoughts to other matters ” if I might in anything promote the cause of true and solid liberty; which is chiefliest to be sought for not without, but within, and to be gained not by fighting, but by the right basing and the right administration of life.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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