Split in twain

Usage examples of halve.

Eline zich bij hem en las hem voor, of zong met halve stem bij haar piano, nu een fraze, dan een roulade, en Vincent luisterde droomend toe, verloren in een vreemd vizioen vol zonderlinge geuren en vale tinten, die zich met krullende arabesken dooreen woelden als een caleidoscoop van coloriet en parfum.

Nicolaas wiens tabbaard bepaald afzakte en reeds een halve el over zijn voeten golfde, terwijl een blonde reep tusschen zijn grijze lokken en zijn mijter zichtbaar was.

In ten years the number of Spartiates will halve again - how then will Sparta remain pre-eminent?

He had heard of cursed swords, and passing the curse along to someone else only made sense, even though Andros insisted on halving what he would have paid for their catch in payment for taking it and its curse away.

The noses and tongues of the bison were saved-choice delicacies along with livers -- then the carcasses were cut into seven pieces: two hindquarters, two forequarters, the mid-section halved, and the huge neck.

Third, I have halved the number of mantlets these models have put outside the flanking walls and going nowhere of much help in getting troops on top of the assault platform.

The floor was of puncheons, logs halved and set edge to edge instead of being fully squared.

The distance had been halved between Jason and the treasure that he so keenly coveted, yet the captain of the Argo was moodier than ever, downcast over the two most recent deaths among his company.

The Spanish Argonauta intercepted Joshua, and the two of them squared off in a furious duel of their own, but Halve Maan took station just astern of Amelia and began hammering away at Santiago's starboard quarter.

The scenes in Oswiecim, or Auschwitz, are based on a study of the available documents and literature, as well Is on consultations with survivors, These scenes halve been meticulously reviewed for authenlicity by erdnent authorities on this terrible subject.

Halved, stripped, gutted and chined, like a pig, but still certainly a man.

Its head was disproportionally large, bent forward as if in serene meditation, the brain a gleaming shadow with the cerebrum neatly halved.

He had, unbeknownst to Leovinus, instructed contractors to halve and then quarter the specifications of any number of elements on board.

The buddha, protecting his halved companion from the disillusioning sight of this mechanized muezzin, whose call to prayer would always be scratched in the same places, extracted from the folds of his shapeless robe a glinting object: and turned his milky gaze upon the silver spittoon.

He found himself looking into his cousin's closed heart as into the halved shell of a coiled and chambered nautilus.