" "That I don't split wood all day, I suppose, when we've got enough for a month.

"Thee would'st not set John at that!" "Lincoln split rails," said John with a smile, "why should not I pile them?

The curtained window of a fantan shop still glowed in orange translucency, and from behind it came the murmur and the endless chinking of cash, where Fortune, a bedraggled, trade-fallen goddess, split hairs with coolies for poverty or zero.

I'm always splitting my sides over it, in my little corner.

"I'll split the difference.

He once split the skull of his own illegitimate son for some trifling act of disobedience.

Cut out the snout, remove the brains, and split the head, taking off the upper bone to make the jowl a good shape; rub it well with salt; next day take away the brine, and salt it again the following day; cover the head with saltpetre, bay-salt, and coarse sugar, in the above proportion, adding a little common salt.

It may be hard physical work to break stones for a road-way, but the task itself is a simple onethe lifting of the arm and dropping it again with sufficient force to split a rock apart.

He did not feel called upon to help to split logs for the roof of the Big Cabin, but he sat cutting and whittling away at a little shelf which he said was to be nailed up at the right of the Big Cabin door.

He is a lover of nature, is fond of talking about the sublime and the beautiful, conjointly with other things freely named in Burke's essay, can pile up the agony with a good deal of ability, and split the ears of the groundlings as the occasion requires.

"'Split your throats, boys!

Then four reports, that sounded as one, split the air.

" This couplet is followed by a second, where allusion is made to the snow which interrupts communication: "Violently falls the snow, In the mist that precedes the lightning; It bends the branches to the earth, And splits the tallest trees in twain.

The first shaft he shot split a piece from the stake on which the garland was hung; the second lodged within an inch of the other.

I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do.

We sailed from Philadelphia to Washington, in the District of Columbia, laden with coal, proceeding down the Delaware, and by the open sea; but, when off the entrance of the Chesapeake, we encountered a heavy gale, which split the sails, swept the decks, and drove us off our course as far south as Ocracoke Inlet, on the coast of North Carolina.

Send a gladiator in against another gladiator and even though he may know that the other man can split a stick at twenty yards, he will do his best.

It is an unreal abstraction that splits man into two beingsa body and a soul; that draws a clean, hard-and-fast line between his temporal and eternal welfare; that commits the former interest to one society, the latter to another, absolutely distinct and unconnected.

Absorbed as she was in her great grief, Catrina was in no mood to seek for motivesto split a moral straw.

Boil, blanch, and split your tongues, season them with a little pepper and salt, then dip them in egg, strow over them a few bread-crumbs, and broil them whilst they be brown; serve them up with a little gravy and butter.

The ridge seemed to split the world for him.

If your lobster be alive tie it to the spit, roast and baste it for half an hour; if it be boiled you must put it in boiling water, and let it have one boil, then lie it in a dripping-pan and baste it; when you lay it upon the dish split the tail, and lay it on each side, so serve it up with melted butter in a china cup.

Clean and split a fish open down the back; remove the backbone; sprinkle with salt and pepper; put in a baking-dish, flesh side up.

Wages Then "Fellow said to me, 'Campbell, I want you to split up them blocks and pile 'em up for me.'

And they say, when he stirs in the sea below, The ice-rocks split asunder The mountains huge of the ribbed ice With a deafening crack like thunder.