Halves

Examples

• As the Roman world was divided into the eastern and western halves, so was the Chinese world into the southern and the northern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let us do nothing by halves. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You only go halves, said Laurie consolingly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• That, the question then arose when 'Halves! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I never do things by halves, as you know, and I mean to have the house clear of a pack of useless people by this time to-morrow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The cue is then sawed across into halves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If, said Mr Wegg by way of peroration, he had erred in saying only 'Halves! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Only one half of the string is bowed, but both halves vibrate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The van der Luydens do nothing by halves. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It is built in two halves for flexibility and either half may be replaced during repairs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That, he considered it plain that such price was stateable in a single expressive word, and that the word was, 'Halves! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These gifted Latin monks never do any thing by halves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Don't we always go halves in everything? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Confiding in you at all, on the faith of the interest you profess for him, I will not do so by halves. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The mechanical reversal of the current is accomplished by the use of the commutator, which is a metal ring split into halves, well insulated from each other and from the shaft. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When these two halves of the mold are finished they are put together, or closed on the shelf of the conveyor, which carries the finished mold to the man who pours the molten metal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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