In our part of the world where monogamy is the rule, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

It is your duty, sir, as my husband.' 'Is it my duty to halve my burdens as well as my joys?

Father said he had a fancy to be prime fooler in his own establishment, but liking the poor knave's wit, civilitie, and good sense, he agreed to halve the businesse, he continuing the fooling, and Pattesonfor that is the simple good fellow's namereceiving the salary.

It was a pretty picture, but somewhat spoiled by Mrs. Tidger suggesting that, though he had spoken of halving the crust, he had said nothing about the beer.

The fact remains that he recognised suddenly that halving this error was tantamount to reducing the circle to the ellipse whose eccentricity was that of the old theory, i.e. that in which the sun would be in one focus and the equant in the other.

I do not know what total population Cunningham allowed for that country, nor on what principle he allotted one hundred and seventy millions of it to Buddhism; perhaps he halved his estimate of the whole, whereas Berghaus and Davids allotted to it the highest estimates that have been given of the people.

She was leaving him an abundance; she had halved her fortune and was giving her share to the convent.

ANOTHER METHOD.After paring and halving the fruit, lay a clean napkin in the bottom of a steamer; fill with fruit.

My wounded heart in armour fancy-wrought: For, lacking thee, so low my state is brought, That Love hath stolen all my strength away; Whence, when I fain would halve my griefs, they weigh With double sorrow, and I sink to nought.

Then she halved the little heap of arsenic medicine as exactly as she could.

But this did not mean that the slaves could stand erect in their quarters except along the center line; for when full cargoes were expected platforms of six or eight feet in width were laid on each side, halving the 'tween deck height and nearly doubling the floor space on which the slaves were to be stowed.

But halve the income of a well-paid mechanic, and you reduce him and his family at once to the verge of starvation.

Who through the steep and starry sky, Goes onward to the gods on high, Before thee, hero-brave? Who halves for thee the land of Heaven; Who shows thy heart, Elysium, given Through the flame-rended Grave? Below, if we were blind to Love, Say, should we soar o'er Death, above?

Some people might consider this like "robbing Peter to pay Paul," but it was better to halve the money for the benefit of two districts, than give all of it for the spiritual edification of one, and leave the other destitute.

By 1666 emigration to other colonies had halved the white population; but the slave trade had increased the negroes to forty thousand, most of whom were employed on the eight hundred sugar estates.

Pare and halve the potatoes, and cut the onions into thick slices.

If he ultimately doubled their joys and halved their sorrows he inevitably first doubled their sorrows and halved their savings.

If he ultimately doubled their joys and halved their sorrows he inevitably first doubled their sorrows and halved their savings.

True, the means of communication are more rapid the line is more direct, and by using the Grand Transasiatic which puts Pekin within a fortnight of the Prussian capital, the baron might halve the old time by Suez and Singaporebut

Men of his wandering habit know too well what a brave, good-tempered wife means to encourage her to take long chances; for although there are lots of women who would like to wander and accept the world's pot luck, there are precious few capable of doing it without doubling a fellow's trouble; when they know how to halve the trouble and double the fun they're priceless.

Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes; halve the apricots, take out the stones, and simmer them in the syrup until tender; watch them carefully, and take them up the moment they are done, for fear they break.

It was also argued that her competition with man merely halved his wages; that if no women were employed, the men would get much higher wages.