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• He 'gan advance, / With huge force, and with importable main.
• My lord would ride twenty miles [...] to see a main fought.
• Were it good . . . to set so rich a main on the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
• struggling in the main
• Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes [...] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
• No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine…
• The highest land on the mayne, yet it was but low, we called Keales hill, and these uninhabited Isles, Russels Isles.
• Invaded the main of Spain.
• [...] Alexander and Molon in the East; and therefore advised him to march immediately in person with the main of his army for the subduing of those rebels, before they should gather greater strength in the revolted provinces against him.
• Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two [...] but as supporters.
• That current with main fury ran.
• Why, it's main jolly to be sure, and all that so fair.
• A draught of ale, friend, for I'm main dry.
• I was forced from the apartment by the main strength of two of these youthful Titans.
• The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[...]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
• That which thou aright / Believest so main to our success, I bring.
• main timbers;  main branch of a river;  main body of an army
• By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
• With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
• Our main interest is to be happy as we can.