sectionally

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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

His country was no longer his native Virginia alone: he was thinking nationally and not sectionally.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

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

A separation is not tightly in worsted and sauce, it is so kept well and sectionally.

From Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Stein, Gertrude

Him and me got as thick personally as the Emperor of Russia and the dove of peace, but sectionally we didn't amalgamate.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.