Do we say halve or have

halve 39 occurrences

Cut off the stalks, and either halve or cut the lettuces into small pieces.

Take them up with a slice, halve, and, should they be very large, quarter them.

Peel the apples, halve them, and take out the cores; put them into a stewpan with the butter, and strew sufficient sifted sugar over to sweeten them nicely, and add the minced lemon-peel.

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.

Make a nice smooth, batter in the same manner as directed in recipe No. 1393, and skin, halve, and stone the peaches, which should be quite ripe; dip them in the batter, and fry the pieces in hot lard or clarified dripping, which should be brought to the boiling-point before the peaches are put in.

Pare the pears, halve them, remove the cores, and leave the stalks on; put them into a lined saucepan with the above ingredients, and let them simmer very gently until tender, which will be in from 3 to 4 hours, according to the quality of the pears.

Obtain a good sweet pumpkin; halve it, take out the seeds, and pare off the rind; cut it into neat slices, or into pieces about the size of a five-shilling piece.

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.

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.

Halve the income of a rich man, you oblige him to retrench; he must give up his yacht, his carriage, or other luxuries; but such retrenchment, though it may wound his pride, will not cause him great personal discomfort.

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

You had given five; you halve itsurely you can get that!

We will halve it, or we will take a bit of it, as a token, rather than wrong her.

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.

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

Well, halve that and add two.

At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him: for he seemed to speak his words by halve.

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

Give him a crust, he said, and somebody to halve it witha home-made crust baked by a wife.

Pare, halve, remove seeds, and place in a shallow earthen dish, with a cup of water to each two quarts of fruit.

Pare with a silver knife, halve or quarter, remove the seeds and drop into a pan of cold water to prevent discoloration.

Pare and quarter the apples, or if small, only halve them, and cook gently in a broad-bottomed closely-covered saucepan, with as little water as possible, till tender, but not broken; then pour the syrup over them, heat all to boiling, and can at once.

Take fresh peaches, pare, halve, and stone them, and place a layer, hollow side up, in the pie.

EGGS SPANISH Boil eggs hard; after cooling, remove shells and halve lengthwise.

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They abuse with hideous cruelties the baptized ones who now no longer worship them with kisses, and many of the Indians have died from the horrible frights these devils have given them.

They were too narrow and too irregular to have been intended to support agricultural terraces.

Our hosts, excited by the pictures we had shown them of Machu Picchu, and now believing that even finer ruins might be found on their own property, immediately gave orders to have the path to Yurak Rumi cleared for our benefit.

There is no "Huarancalla" to-day, nor any tradition of any, but in Mapillo, a pleasant valley at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, in the temperate zone where the crops with which the Incas were familiar might have been raised, near pastures where llamas and alpacas could have flourished, is a place called Huarancalque.

There is no "Huarancalla" to-day, nor any tradition of any, but in Mapillo, a pleasant valley at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, in the temperate zone where the crops with which the Incas were familiar might have been raised, near pastures where llamas and alpacas could have flourished, is a place called Huarancalque.

In other words, with the decay of early colonial mining and the consequent disappearance of bad living conditions and forced labor at the mines, also with the rise of partial immunity to European diseases, and the more comfortable conditions of existence which have followed the coming of Peruvian independence, it is reasonable to suppose that the number of highland Indians has increased.

It also makes it seem more reasonable that the existence of Rosaspata and ñusta Isppana should not have been known to Peruvian geographers and historians, or even to the government officials who lived in the adjacent villages.

Undoubtedly, Señor Pancorbo's own life would have been at the mercy of their poisoned arrows.

It may have been exhausted long before his day.

It might have had twenty-four doors, twelve in front and twelve in back, each three and a half feet wide.

Nevertheless it does not seem to me reasonable to suppose that the priests and Virgins of the Sun (the personnel of the "University of Idolatry") who fled from cold Cuzco with Manco and were established by him somewhere in the fastnesses of Uilcapampa would have cared to live in the hot valley of Espiritu Pampa.

It seems hardly possible that they should have forgotten where Tampu-tocco was supposed to have been.

A very little way inland is the village of Dunsley, which may have been in existence in Roman times, for Ptolemy mentions Dunus Sinus as a bay frequently used by the Romans as a landing-place.

This was such an astounding fact to record that the writer of the old manuscript explains that 'old men that would be loath to have their credyt crackt by a tale of a stale date, report confidently that ... a sea-man was taken by the fishers.'

All the way from Scarborough to Whitby the coast offers no shelter of any sort in heavy weather, and many vessels have been lost on the rocks.

O Merodach the Lord, Chief of the gods, 48,49 a surpassing Prince thou hast made me, 50 and empire over multitudes of men, 51,52 hast intrusted to me as precious lives; 53 thy power have I extended on high, 54,55 over Babylon thy city, before all mankind.

The analogous documents show that numerous inaccuracies have been committed.

The several copies of this document have been united in one sole text in a work which I published in common with M. Ménant in the "Journal Asiatique," 1863.

23 To maintain my position in Media, I have erected fortifications in the neighborhood of Kar-Sarkin.

You have to have the Greek alphabet backward, and never miss chapel all term to get a show at that.

His plays would have been utterly marvelous, wouldn't they?"

We women have a way of knowing when a man is in love with us.

But, putting his hand rather deeper into the bag of stolen coins than comported with the views of the robber, he was arrested with the cry, "Why, man, have you no conscience?"

Money, as it does not own itself, cannot be stolen from itself But when we reflect, that man is the owner of himself, it does not surprise us, that wresting away his inalienable rightshis very manhoodshould have been called man-stealing.

Northern Christians have been ready to believe, that the South would give up her slaves, because of her conscious lack of title to them.

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