" "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.

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.

"I'll split the difference.

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

"'Split your throats, boys!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The ridge seemed to split the world for him.

The new gloves were both split up the middle and very dirty with clutching at the steps as she went down.

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.

Now and then a vivid flash of lightning split the sombre clouds.

The effect was to fill the Southern people with delight and make them more reckless than ever, to split the Democratic party in the North; to increase the number of Republicans in the North, and make them more determined than ever to stop the spread of slavery into the territories.