In the Republican party, the strife between conservatism and progress was so bitter as to produce a complete split; and the progressives nominated a candidate of their own, preferring, if they could not control the government themselves, to hand it over to the progressive element among the Democrats.

And as we remained thus, an instant, like silly sheep awaiting the butcher, I heard the framework creak and crack, and there ran splits all across the glass.

His anxiety was well founded, for half a minute later, whizz!I could feel the rubber splitting!

We found the false stem split, and in one case a hole bored for a long-stem through-bolt which was much too large for the bolt.

It is an electoral system that forbids absolutely any vote splitting or any indication of shades of opinion.

"It is good news to at last hear that progress is being made again towards healing the 'split.

I could hear the split and break of heavy timbers; I could see splinters flying over me in a rush of smoke, and the legs of a man go bumping on the beams above.

This, of course, does not imply the splitting up of the universal mind into fractions, and it is to avoid this error that I have discussed the essential unity of spirit in the third section, but in order to avoid too highly abstract conceptions in the present stage of the student's progress we may conveniently employ the idea of a personal share in the universal subjective mind.

But the king liked the scholastic hair-splitting with which he was elsewhere entertained better than the plays.

You boys ain't mentioned a split because it was none of your say and you knew it.

" "When shall I begin?" "We shall need some wood split at once.

There has occurred a splitting of the two reactions which ordinarily go hand in hand: the reaction of growth which is just brute increase of total mass or weight and volume, and the reaction of differentiation which is the finer process.

In both cases the action on the stricks of jute is equivalent to a combined combing and splitting movement, and the pins in the various rollers move relatively to each other so that while the pins of a slowly-moving roller allow the strick or stricks (because there are several side by side) to pass slowly and gradually from end to end, the pins of another but quickly-moving roller perform the splitting and the combing of the fibre.

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

As regards the splitting up of the fleet, no especially disadvantageous conditions are thereby produced.

An hour later they crossed the top of the second mountain and saw far below them a long saddle back split in the middle by a narrow cleft.

4.End view of failures in compression across the grain, showing splitting of the ends of the test specimens.]

Luke Tweezy picked himself up from the floor where he had thrown himself a split second before the shot.

But what I love is the way he treated splits.

It is true Laharpe does understand the splitting of hairs, but only in scientific controversy; it is true he does use paint and powder, in that he paints his thoughts in words of elegance, and lays on them the powder of ingenious sophistryan art that is better understood in France than here.

To accept Gratton as a partneron a fifty-fifty split of the spoils!

Wut England wants is jest a wedge to fit Where it'll help to widen out our split: She's found her wedge, an' 't ain't for us to come An' lend the beetle thet's to drive it home.

HICKS, ELIAS, an American preacher of the Quaker connection, who adopted Unitarian views and caused a split in the body (1748-1830).