Separating

Examples

• But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I at last found a clear space separating two ponds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our lines covered his front, with the six miles separating the two wings guarded by but a single division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These private considerations, combined with political reasons, fixed his resolution of separating the cousins. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth-- Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Is not the natural heat of animals thus produced, by separating in digestion the parts of food, and setting their fire at liberty? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Hundreds of instruments have been invented for measuring, analysing, weighing, separating, volatilising and otherwise applying chemical processes to practical purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The arc of flame passed from the top of one carbon to the other, fusing the separating layer of kaolin, and the whole burned down together as a candle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I went first to the barrier separating us from the stalls, and looked for the Count in that part of the theatre. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mis--ter Roke--smith, Pa,' said Bella separating the syllables for emphasis. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This machine has practically solved the perplexing problem of separating impurities and foreign substances from chicle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Before separating it was definitely understood that at a convenient time we would join our fortunes, and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They had risen, and were standing on the hearth, the time being come for separating; each had drawn an arm around the other to take leave. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Separating rice grains by flailing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A still later invention, curved spring teeth, has been found far superior to spikes or disks in throwing up, separating and pulverising the soil. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By the 13th the rear-guard had arrived, and the same day the advance resumed its march, followed as before, a day separating the divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One of these, called the roller-gin, destroyed the seeds by crushing them between two revolving cylinders, instead of separating them by teeth. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Seventeen different methods and devices for separating magnetic ores. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From 1880 to 1885, while still very busy in the development of his electric-light system, Edison found opportunity to plan crushing and separating machinery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In both cases the current was a continuously closed one, and was not alternately made and broken as by the separating contacts of Reis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They were not more than two or three minutes together, and on their separating she left the room with Mrs. Vesey, while Sir Percival came to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages on the feelings and affections,--the separating of families, for example. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Separating the crystals acco rding to the difference of form, he made a solution from each group. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Touch the middle of a wire with the finger or a pencil (Fig. 182), thus separating it into two portions and draw a violin bow across the center of either half. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In some instances I saw where two rooms were cut out, for a single family, with a door-way in the clay wall separating them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These traversed the wood separating us, without escort, and directed him to push forward; but he did not come. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Concave glasses, by separating the rays and making the focus more distant, overbalance a wide eyeball with its tendency to focus objects in front of the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then there is the problem of producing pure nitrogen gas, that is, separating the eighty per cent of nitrogen in the air from the twenty per cent of oxygen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We are given to separating from each other the physical and social environments in which we live. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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