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.

To supplement the cistern supply the Mosque of Omar reservoir halved with Bethlehem the water which flowed from near Solomon's Pools down an aqueduct constructed by Roman engineers under Herod before the Saviour was born.

The late increase in the tobacco duty is to be halved, so that the modest smoker may hope to fill his pipe for a penny less per ounce.

In the process, when the chromosome number is halved among the females, 11 go into each mature egg.

She felt that she was not halved by the process, but doubled.

Terrible as were the sufferings through which the Armenians passed, they must have been infinitely more unbearable had it not been for these American missionaries; small as was the remnant that escaped into the safety of Persia or Russian Trans-Caucasia, their numbers must have been halved had it not been for the heroism of these men and women.

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

And it says as much for the coolness of the drivers as for their good luck that no one was ever injured; for danger is halved by cool judgment, and a bold driver will come safely through where timidity would fail.

"But neither of us could part from the other, if all the wealth of the world were halved between us.

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.

The English people were then buying annually some £200,000 worth of that commodity, mainly from the Spanish West Indies, at prices which might be halved or quartered and yet pay the freight and yield substantial earnings; and so rapid was the resort to the staple in Virginia that soon the very market place in Jamestown was planted in it.

And as she breathed her heavenward sigh, 'Twas halved by that light all radiently, As it lit her up to eternity.

This was a terrible sort of grief that could neither be kept secret nor halved by sympathy, but must be worn in the full glare of day.

The only comfort is that at that rate the National Debt has already been halved.

Presently, when I looked again, the little earth seemed no bigger than the sun, and it dwindled and turned as I looked, until in a second's space (as it seemed to me), it was halved; and so it went on swiftly dwindling.

Kalidasa anticipates a modern idea when he remarks, in Sakuntala, that "Among persons who are very fond of each other, grief shared is grief halved."

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.

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

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.

Knowing that after marriage they would get no employment, they would simply dispense with the marriage ceremony; for it is obvious that under such legislation a man living with a woman unmarried could get double wages, which would be halved the moment he made her his wife.

Heat slowly, boil fifteen minutes or longer till a silver fork can be easily passed through the pieces; can in the usual way and seal; or, fill the cans with the halved peaches, and place them in a boiler of warm water with something underneath to avoid breaking; cook until perfectly tender.

His small umbrella, quaintly halved, Describing in the air An arc alike inscrutable, Elate philosopher!

His small umbrella, quaintly halved, Describing in the air An arc alike inscrutable, Elate philosopher!

The logs were halved together at the ends, and filled between with small pieces of wood laid in morter, and, on the whole, the chapel made a very respectable appearance.