Divisions

Examples

• Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He has a clearer conception of the divisions of science and of their relation to the mind of man than was possible to the ancients. Plato. The Republic.
• The ladies had not been long in the drawing-room, before the other ladies, in their different divisions, arrived. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Two of McPherson's divisions were put upon the march immediately. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After this, the gentlemen went to the reading-rooms, and met divisions of the mass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The main building was divided into five chief divisions--the library, office, machine shops, experimental and chemical rooms, and stock-room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Smith's divisions had encountered the rebel advanced pickets as early as half-past seven. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 8th of May he moved again, taking his whole force to Farmington, and pushed out two divisions close to the rebel line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The heaviest loss sustained by the enemy was in front of these two divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• McClernand was next to Sherman, and the hardest fighting was in front of these two divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The remaining three divisions followed, with an interval of a day between. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 12th I learned that Lee had sent twenty pieces of artillery, two divisions of infantry and a considerable cavalry force to strengthen Early. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The line between the Rebel and Union element in Georgetown was so marked that it led to divisions even in the churches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 14th of August I was ordered to send two more divisions to Buell. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sheridan had about ten thousand cavalry with him, divided into two divisions commanded respectively by Custer and Devin. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We may now, with the help of a map, make a brief review of the political divisions of Europe at the close of the fifth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By daylight the two entire divisions were over, and well covered by the works they had built. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He will not understand all this of divisions and all, Anselmo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We will now turn for a short space to the lower divisions of the animal kingdom. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The figurative association was mistaken for a real one; and thus the three latter divisions of the Platonic proportion were constructed. Plato. The Republic.
• In reaching the point where the disaster had occurred I had to pass the divisions of Smith and Wallace. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I myself am a layman, but I have given no inconsiderable attention to the divisions in the Church and-- Oh, damn the divisions! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sheridan with two divisions of cavalry was watching our left front towards Cold Harbor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The latter assumes continuity; the former state or imply certain basic divisions, separations, or antitheses, technically called dualisms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Two other divisions, Crittenden's and McCook's, came up the river from Savannah in the transports and were on the west bank early on the 7th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The foundry is one of the most interesting divisions of the entire plant, and ranks, perhaps, as one of the most unique in the country, as far as practice and equipment are concerned. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The men, attached to brigades or divisions, would all commence at once raising the wires with their telegraph poles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Geologists make certain main divisions of the Cainozoic period, and it will be convenient to name them here and to indicate their climate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the 7th of May I was further reinforced by Sherman with two divisions of his, the 15th corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Two of his divisions were brought to the north side of the Po. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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