1929 examples of splits in sentences

There is also a white sort, which readily splits when subjected to the action of millstones set wide apart, so as not to grind them.

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.

The fact, however, that perfect success in sex may occur with absolute failure in the career, however, splits the problem for good into its realities: a physiologic aspect as well as a psychologic.

And then disgorges wain and steeds, And swords and javelins bright; Then, as the dreadful dragon bleeds, Up starts the warrior-knight, And from his place of ambush leaps, And, brandishing his blade, The weapon in the brain he steeps, And splits the monster's head.

The vulture splits a bamboo, out of which spring man and woman, who beget many children, and, when their number becomes too great, drive them out with blows.

The smoke and flame, when they reach the end of the boiler, pass in this case through an iron flue or tube, reaching from end to end of the boiler; and on arriving at the front of the boiler, the smoke splits or separatesone half passing through a flue on the one side of the boiler, and the other half passing through a flue on the other side of the boilerboth of these flues having their debouch in the chimney.

Where the wood had separated as it dried, Nakashima had inlaid butterfly keys to prevent the splits from widening.

But what I love is the way he treated splits.

"He splits all our wood when he's here.

Major Rowens was at the time of his decease a promising officer in the militia, in the direct line of promotion, as his waistband was getting tighter every year; and, as all the world knows, the militia-officer who splits off most buttons and fills the largest sword-belt stands the best chance of rising, or, perhaps we might say, spreading, to be General.

Now, not his feeble muscles, but the force of gravity brings down the axe; that is to say, the planet itself splits his stick.

He splits my ears.

Here the keratogenous membrane participates in the diseased process, and their horn becomes dry and brittle, and readily splits into small fibrous bundles very similar to the fibroid growth described in canker.

That big mountain runs out an' splits it, an' it curves like a horseshoe.

They sat and looked lightnings at each other; and I contented myself with thinking, that when a rotten tree splits, bears catch honey.

Black oak is a dry wood, and easily splits; is chiefly used for the rails and fences of their enclosures.

], grubs up the underwood, splits some of the large timber for railing fences, and sets fire to the rest upon the spot; ploughs round the stumps of the large timber, and in May plants maize, or indian corn.

The cutwater of this great Leviathan clipper, the OCCIDENTAL,this thirty-masted wind-and-steam wave-crusher,must throw a little spray over the human vocabulary as it splits the waters of a new world's destiny!

I suppose you represent the middle class in your country?' "'I don't know 'zactly where society splits with us,' says I, '

"There's always somethin' New," said the publica public so glutted with novelty that it would hear of the earth being split as one splits an apple without surprise, and, "I wonder what they'll do next.

Yorke Hunsden in The Professor splits up into Rochester and Robert Moore and Mr. Yorke; and there is a certain amount of Paul Emanuel in all of them.

my own head splits asunder!

Splits and secessions are rare in these times; movements toward unity are multiplying.

Now splits a beech with such a crack That all the valleys echo it back.

Five hundred spools of warp yarn would be placed in the two wings of a V-shaped bank, and the threads from these spools taken in regular order, and threaded through the splits or openings of a reed which is placed in a suitable position in regard to the winding-on mechanism.

1929 examples of  splits  in sentences