1417 examples of secondary in sentences

Money-making is a secondary result: in true trade it is not the final benefit.

"In serving your prince, make your service the serious concern, and let salary be a secondary matter.

Notwithstanding that the carboniferous period is separated from us by more than the whole time represented by the secondary and tertiary formations, the great types of vegetation were as distinct then as now.

Whether such a law is to be regarded as an expression of the mode of operation of natural forces, or whether it is simply a statement of the manner in which a supernatural power has thought fit to act, is a secondary question, so long as the existence of the law and the possibility of its discovery by the human intellect are granted.

" [Footnote 5: The paper "On the Form and Distribution of the Landtracts during the Secondary and Tertiary Periods respectively; and on the Effect upon Animal Life which great Changes in Geographical Configuration have probably produced," by Mr. Searles V. Wood, jun., which was published in the Philosophical Magazine, in 1862, was unknown to me when this Address was written.

The latter is a secondary matter and the first is the thing that brings happiness to you.

Formerly (and the view is not yet wholly obsolete) the whole house was a reception-hall, the domestic life of the inmates being a secondary matter, swept into some corner, such as the cells of the mediaeval castles or the mezzanino of the Italian palaces.

Henceforth he is welcome, but he is secondary; it was not for him that the house was built; and if it comes to choosing, he can be dispensed with.

But if it is a house, let us always keep in mind that the appearance of it, being really secondary, must be seen to have been held so throughout.

Is the Christian training of the nurses to be the primary, and hospital skill the secondary object?

" "Yes, sir; that, too, I grant you" "As secondary to the main objectthe public convenience, Mr. Bragg unquestionably means;" put in John Effingham, speaking for the first time that morning on the subject.

It may be regarded as a secondary question whether the knighthood here referred to was completed by the investiture with knightly arms and the honorable accolade.

It is hence permissible to think of the thyroid as a dictator of evolution, to crown it as the vertebrate gland par excellence, and to call the typical vertebrate brand marks secondary thyroid characteristics in precisely the sense of Darwin classing the horns of cattle as secondary sexual characteristics.

It is hence permissible to think of the thyroid as a dictator of evolution, to crown it as the vertebrate gland par excellence, and to call the typical vertebrate brand marks secondary thyroid characteristics in precisely the sense of Darwin classing the horns of cattle as secondary sexual characteristics.

But they are secondary, and obscure.

Otherwise she meekly sank back into her old secondary place, content to have her judgment slighted and her wishes unasked as long as he stayed.

All matters fall out of sight, or at least fall into a secondary place, which do not bear more or less directly and patently upon the material and structural welfare of the community.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

There is no advantage nor honest delight in influence, if it is only to be exerted in the sphere of secondary objects, and at the cost of the objects which ought to be foremost in the eyes of serious people.

A want of organic unity and structural sincerity is always the result of those necessities under which a secondary and adapted style must labour; and thus the pseudo-Roman buildings even of the best Renaissance period display faults similar to those of the Italian Gothic.

The trochaic line of three syllables, which our prosodists in general describe as consisting, not of two feet; but "of one Trochee and a long syllable," may, when it stands alone, be supposed to consist of one amphimac; but, since this species of foot is not admitted by all, and is reckoned a secondary one by those who do admit it, the better practice is, to divide even the three syllables into two feet, as above.

5.As each of our principal feet,the Iambus, the Trochee, the Anapest, and the Dactyl,has always one, and only one long syllable; it should follow, that, in each of our principal orders of verse,the Iambic, the Trochaic, the Anapestic, and the Dactylic,any line, not diversified by a secondary foot, must be reckoned to contain just as many feet as long syllables.

Thus Everett: "It is never used except as a secondary foot, and then in the first place of the line.

BROWN, EDWIN J. Secondary-school administration.

Group activities in college and secondary school.

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