Divides

Examples

• When a ball meets more than one ball, it divides its motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He has one assistant who divides the watch with him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The blunt end of a flat piece of steel is placed in this nick and a smart blow of a hammer divides the crystal evenly and perfectly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I was admitted within that sacred boundary which divides the intellectual and moral nature of man from that which characterizes animals. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Still another method is to allow the melted metal to fall on a revolving disk, which divides it into drops by centrifugal action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There no dense partition of yawns and toilets divides humanity by night from humanity by day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If I am angry with you, it is that you seem not to see how any concealment divides us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is a curtain more dust-coloured than red, which divides it, and the part behind the curtain makes the private sitting-room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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