"You want to place me in contradiction with myself, and make me confess that I accept Moineaud's seven children and need them, whereas I, with my fixed determination to rest content with an only son, suppress, as it were, a family in order that I may not have to subdivide my estate.

A fine lot of good would it do the country if we were to ruin ourselves with big families, which would hamper us, prevent us from getting rich, and afterwards destroy whatever we create by subdividing it.

Protoplasm has the power of appropriating nutrient material, of dividing and subdividing, so as to form new masses like itself.

These divide into smaller tubes, which continue subdividing till the whole lung is penetrated by the branches, the extremities of which are extremely minute.

It is crowded with blood-vessels, which divide and subdivide very minutely before they penetrate the brain.

In brief, the spinal nerves divide and subdivide, to reach with their twigs all parts of the body, and provide every tissue with a nerve center, a station from which messages may be sent to the brain.

He can occasionally get to a fifth point, and then subdivide it, before giving that final "word of advice" which parsons are so enamoured of; but he never branches out beyond this stage.

Some of them attend the various markets, that are established through so large an extent of territory, to purchase the kidnapped people, whom the slave-hunters are continually bringing in; while the rest, subdividing their merchandize among the petty sovereigns with whom they deal, receive, by an immediate exertion of fraud and violence, the stipulated number.

Mr. Lincoln is not one to shut his eyes on filibustering attempts to strive to take Cuba for the slavery party, to permit States to be carved out of Mexico, and others to be made ready by subdividing Texas.

They would divide and subdivide until society was resolved into its original elements.

Deal time ball De Berg Decimal coinage and decimal subdividing Dee navigation (see Rivers)

The Romans thus applied to Sicily the ancient principle of their policy, that of subdividing the dependent communities into carefully graduated classes with different privileges; but, on the average, the Sardinian and Sicilian communities were not in the position of allies but in the manifest relation of tributary subjection.

"This land resembles a leaf," thought the boy, "for it's as green as a leaf, and the valleys subdivide it in about the same way as the veins of a leaf are foliated.

Fifth: Since the high skill of men is attained through repetition of operations, the management must subdivide the work into classes in which each man can become highly proficient.

"Section (§) is used in subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts.

"The SECTION (§) is sometimes used in the subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts.

I touched the bell, the great subdividing doors were rolled, and my assistants quietly proceeded to the work of instruction, confident that the war was over.

Divide and subdivide a difficult process, until your steps are so short that the pupil can easily take them.

But to show what I mean by subdividing a difficult process so as to make each step simple, I will take a case which may serve as an example.

If so, the teacher will subdivide the question on the principle we are explaining, so as to make the steps such that the pupils can take them.

" There is no limit to the simplicity which may be imparted, even to the most difficult subjects, by subdividing the steps.

I go into it here merely to show how, by simply subdividing the steps, a subject ordinarily perplexing may be made plain.

In applying this method, however, the teacher should be very careful not to subdivide too much.

As Washington early in the war divined, the Revolution was "a war of posts," and he urged the danger of "dividing and subdividing our Force too much

The polypidom rises to a height of seven or eight inches, with a long slender waving, but upright stem, which is naked inferiorly, and above gives off numerous straight or waving branches, again subdividing into other shorter straight ramules, about an inch long.