His life is mainly passed in keeping up this battle for a lost dignity and worship. "Castilian Days" by John Hay

The reason why he read more of Roman law than is now required in legal education was mainly that there was more time for it, since of English law reports there were then few, and of American none. "The American Judiciary" by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

The connexion between words and ideas, is arbitrary and conventional; it has arisen mainly from the agreement of men among themselves. "The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown