Splitting

Examples

• Another device is the separation of municipal, state and national elections: to hold them all at the same time is an inducement to prevent the voter from splitting his allegiance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These influences have resulted in splitting up the subject matter of education into separate studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You'll have a splitting headache tomorrow, if you drink much of that. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Leather Splitting, and other Remarkable Machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Splitting and crumbling of rock caused by alternating heat and cold. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Right through Fido's head, and splitting little Harry's nose. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The rolls were well named, for with ear-splitting noise they broke up in a few seconds the great pieces of rock tossed in from the skips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such a splitting up of a species in the course of generations into two or more species is called the _Differentiation of Species_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the great relief of Europe the dynastic troubles at Karakorum lasted for some years, and this vast new empire showed signs of splitting up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Well, my dear Sir, we won't waste time in splitting straws,' resumed the little man, 'say--say--seventy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Don't suppose that I am splitting my head and half breaking my heart over this miserable Chancery suit for my own rights and interests alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To his own people Solomon was a wasteful and oppressive monarch, and already before his death his kingdom was splitting, visibly to all men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Heat plays an important part in the splitting of rocks and in the formation of débris. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The empire was now splitting finally into an eastern (Greek-speaking) and a western (Latin-speaking) half. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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