" Accompanied by Mateo, the travelers pass on to "the great vestibule, or porch of the gate," which "is formed by an immense Arabian arch, of the horseshoe form, which springs to half the height of the tower.

When The Comic Times changed hands in 1856, and was reduced to half its size, the whole staff left it and started a new venture, The Train.

Of course, I shall reduce the guard to half its former strength, as the men must have some sleep, sir.

Do you want to succeed to half the chorus-world of New York?" "They won't be on board with us, I suppose!" "The echoes of their conversation will.

Managers had not half the perplexity and trouble in watching, driving, &c.

In Jamaica there was no responsible Government: but I had not half the power I have here with my constitutional and changing Cabinet.'

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.

The portraits don't look a bit like him; they are handsomer, perhaps, but haven't half the splendid character of his face.

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 air was reduced to half its usual density, and felt intensely cold and piercing.

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.

there could also be no question,she was entitled by law to half his estate.

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.

His oaths are of a wider bore and louder report than those of an ordinary perjurer, but yet they do not half the execution.

As for my part, who have no Expectations from Women, and consider them only as they are Part of the Species, I do not half so much fear offending a Beauty, as a Woman of Sense; I shall therefore produce several Faces which have been in Publick this many Years, and never appeared.

You might learn to love a person in less time and still retain your mental balance, you know, especially if she were pretty and an heiress to half your own fortune.

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

While they were in the Strait, they managed to kill a few wild fowl occasionally; but the supply was so small, that they were obliged to limit the crew to half a fowl a day, which they cooked with meal; but this soon failed, and they were forced to devour the candles.

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.