How To Use Fly by In A Sentence
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The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Birds make territorial calls, swifts and swallows fly by, and then, bats emerge.
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Some of them were publicly promulgated; but such as appertained to religious matters were kept secret chiefly by the pontiffs, that they might hold the minds of the people fettered by them.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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In Sweden, likewise, the same principles have been introduced chiefly by Herr Otto Salomon, the director of the great sloyd seminarum at Naas.
The Art of Living in Australia
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He eked out a precarious living chiefly by writing short stories, some of which won praise but none of which earned him significant money.
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Many viral infections are spread chiefly by aerosol, rather than by fomites or personal contact.
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
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What most people reported seeing were watery stretches, sometime brown, sometime grey, and relieved briefly by slushy muddy patches.
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In the latter case the foremost upper molar is small; the fibula is distinct, and never united, except in some cases where it is attached to the extremity of the tibia; the zygomatic arch is formed chiefly by the malar, which is not supported beneath by a continuation of the zygomatic process of the maxillary; collar-bones perfect; upper lip cleft; the muffle small and naked; tail cylindrical and hairy (except in _Castoridae_).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Almost 40 years ago Ed Lewis discovered a remarkable fly that differs from an ordinary fly by one extra pair of wings.
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How the long winter nights must fly by at Chez Blaine.
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Can’t the congress see that this is just another fraud to erase a trail of responsibility and overseers, so they can continue to fly by the seat of their pants, and freeboot?
Bush Wants a War Czar: Will Congress Give Him One?
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The former is produced chiefly by one or more carburets of hydrogen, and their oxidation derivatives.
The Art of Living in Australia
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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. Eric Hoffer
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The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
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Airplane pilots must always fly by the book.
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308 Complete ablution is rendered necessary chiefly by the emission of semen either in copulation or in nocturnal pollution.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Rather, they were driven chiefly by an insensate hatred of America and all things American.
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Galileo is the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid and the first to discover a moon of an asteroid.
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On the more practical level, Morgan reported efforts to control the fly by manuring, rolling, and grazing the wheat.
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The defence on the part of the body is chiefly by the formation of dense masses of cicatricial tissue which walls off the affected area and in which the bacilli do not find favorable conditions for growth.
Disease and Its Causes
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Birds learn to fly by instinct.
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Houses and lands are not mentioned among the emir's wealth, as nomadic tribes dwell in movable tents and live chiefly by pasture, the right to the soil not being appropriated by individuals.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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If there be a trait of American character peculiar to itself, displayed more fully than another by contrast with Europeans, it is in the treatment of the gentler sex, differing as it does materially from the picture of the Englishman, standing with his back to the fire, while the ladies freeze around him; or the glittering politeness of the Frenchman, hovering like a butterfly by the music stand; it has in it more of intellect and real tenderness than either, although tending as it does to the advancement of national character, some of their own talented ones begin to complain that in the refined circles of the States they are becoming almost too civilised in this respect: the ladies requiring rather more than is due to them.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
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Money is raised chiefly by publicising highly exploitable incidents, often of lawbreaking.
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You can distinguish this leaf-roller from the sawfly by the extent and nature of the curling.
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According to Drewry 17.16 ` ` athetosis is a cerebral affection, presenting a combination of symptoms characterized chiefly by a more or less constant mobility of the extremities and an inability to retain them in any fixed position.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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They were used only for the first ploughing, in breaking up the wild sod woven into a tough mass, chiefly by the cordlike roots of perennial grasses, reinforced by the tap-roots of oak and hickory bushes, called "grubs," some of which were more than a century old and four or five inches in diameter.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
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It rests, behind, in the hyaloid fossa in the forepart of the vitreous body; in front, it is in contact with the free border of the iris, but recedes from it at the circumference, thus forming the posterior chamber of the eye; it is retained in its position chiefly by the suspensory ligament of the lens, already described.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 2. The Refracting Media
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As was common during the war, only the flight leader would fly by instruments through this overcast.
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Rev.Mr. Bree once had a whole collection of lepidopterous insects utterly spoiled from having been deposited in cedar drawers; and he has understood, also, that the insects in the British Museum, collected, he believes, chiefly by Dr. Leach, have been greatly injured from the same cause.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
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As regards the former, leucocytes are guided chiefly by chemiotaxis, _i. e._ by sensitiveness to chemical substances in their surroundings -- a property which is not peculiar to them but is possessed by various unicellular organisms, including motile bacteria.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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HBV gene was examined in the genome of DNAs from larvae of housefly by PCR.
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I remember heading toward the Senate floor one day in early March and being stopped briefly by a dark-haired young man.
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A bumblebee flies by creating vortices: it can only fly by creating non-linear effects — there's no smooth airflow.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll hear your rotor speeding up and slowing down, and the roar of missiles as they fly by you.
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308 Complete ablution is rendered necessary chiefly by the emission of semen either in copulation or in nocturnal pollution.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Birds learn to fly by instinct.
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Birds learn to fly by instinct.
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The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
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Although there were abundant lakes and ponds on the islands, they would have been vegetated chiefly by bulrushes.
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A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
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That night, streetlights shimmer in shivering puddles, darkened only briefly by the shadows of bicycles.
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God knows how long we're there for - we're having such a great time the hours fly by - but somehow we end up back at the Stone Circle watching the fire pois
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The diseases known as tartaric, especially gout and lithiasas, are caused by the deposit of determinate toxins (tartar), are discovered chiefly by the urine test, and are cured by means of alkalies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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It was foolish of the Obama administration to make the issue of terrorism one for negotiation: Khartoum either does or does not support terrorism, and there is considerable evidence that it still does, chiefly by funnelling Iranian weapons to Hamas.
Sudan's self-inflicted economic distress | Eric Reeves
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Those long winter nights at the Gert household must absolutely fly by.
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Almost 40 years ago Ed Lewis discovered a remarkable fly that differs from an ordinary fly by one extra pair of wings.
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Five and a half hours fly by.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the majority of clonal plant species, which reproduce chiefly by vegetative propagation, seedling recruitment is infrequent.
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Speech and speech-reading are taught where the measure of success seems likely to justify the labor expended, and in most of the schools some of the pupils are taught wholly or chiefly by the Oral Method or the
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
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Dressing a fly by winding the hackle the length of the body is mentioned in fly fishing books of the fifteenth century. It is called the palmer style of dressing.
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If this burn does not take place successfully, Cassini-Huygens will fly by Saturn, never to return.
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He remarks at Memphis how the unburnt brick of which the mounds are made up had in many places become remanie into a stratified deposit -- distinguishable from Nile mud chiefly by the pottery fragments -- and notes the bearing of this fact on the Cairo mounds.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
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The honors, determined chiefly by the marks given at the end of the term, being mainly the reward of a diligence rather stupid than otherwise, as a rule were regarded with great indifference, and, for the most part, fell to the men who "poled" most assiduously, and got the best marks for attention, diligence, and correct recitation of the set tasks.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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It's also a hotbed of heterosexual sex - not something that's normally rife at fashion magazines, which are staffed chiefly by women and gay men.
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Harmonia" is supported chiefly by a subsidy from Rome.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The parts of Formes which seek to substantiate this thesis do so chiefly by developing the obverse one: ‘Society is God’.
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The days fly by with prolific shopping trips to outdoor equipment specialists, chemists, chandleries, map shops and book stores.
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The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
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A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
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She is worshipped chiefly by women; but some of the workers on the railroad begged branches of the feathery yellow acacia, which is now in bloom, to carry with them to the temple in San Francisco.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California
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A kind of brimmed helmet resembling a hat, without a beaver or visor, worn chiefly by foot soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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The wealth of evidence and anecdote means that the pages fly by.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunate it is that Bigot's astounding depravity has led too many readers and writers of Canadian history to look upon the intendancy of New France as a post held chiefly by rascals.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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He had no time to spare and couldn't afford to fly by the target.
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The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
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But if he really wanted to be ecologically sound he should introduce into the garden some fast breeding ladybirds - which eat greenfly by the thousand.
Mistaken Identity
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I show up and I hate to use the term fly by the seat of my pants.
Modern Guitars Magazine
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The wealth of evidence and anecdote means that the pages fly by.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could be squashed like a fat-fly by those that pay him if he somehow becomes dispensible.
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’
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When the owlets fledge, they exercise their new ability to fly by leaving the immediate nest area, but the parents continue to supply them with food for a few more weeks.
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The days fly by with prolific shopping trips to outdoor equipment specialists, chemists, chandleries, map shops and book stores.
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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. Eric Hoffer
