Dividing

Examples

• There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here we made laws for ourselves, dividing our day, and fixing distinct occupations for each hour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was four stories high, with a fire-wall dividing it into two equal parts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What would alone have set a division between that man and us, if there had been no other dividing circumstance, was his triumph in my story. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They were in a book, and it happened to be in the next room--our sitting-room, dividing Ada's chamber from mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The sexagesimal method of dividing the circle and its parts was, as we have seen in the fir st chapter, of Babylonian origin. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To which riddle the Jacobin reply was to set about dividing up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The specific gravity of matter is not altered by dividing the matter, though the superfices be increased. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He and others had used the pendulum for dividing time, but moved it by hand and counted its vibrations. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Army of the Tennessee united with the Army of the Gulf, dividing the Confederate States completely. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Spottsylvania is on the ridge dividing these two streams, and where they are but a few miles apart. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By dividing this statement up among eight, it was found not difficult to believe it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He said at this time, There is no difficulty about dividing up the current and using small quantities at different points. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• How can the interests of life and the studies which enforce them enrich the common experience of men instead of dividing men from one another? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Edison also improved the armature by dividing it and the commutator into a far greater number of sections than up to that time had been the practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Because, you know,' said Wegg, dividing his next observation between Mr Boffin and Mr Harmon, 'I am worth my price, and I mean to have it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My father's dividing line was that of color. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It raises my influence much too high; the power of dividing two people so tenderly attached is too much for an indifferent person. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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