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At the close of the Revolution, as we have seen, its area began to be sectionally confined while the jurisdiction over it continued to lie in the several state governments.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

The fittings of the room are as shown sectionally in Fig.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

Public opinion has a more direct, a more comprehensive, a more efficient organ for its utterance, than a body of men sectionally chosen.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Jefferson was thinking nationally and not sectionally; he was ready for the great rôle he was about to assume.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

The war, for the time, parted the Nation sectionally.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.