Half Sentence Examples
More than half the hungry people in the world live in just these three nations—nations that are all net food exporters.
I was awake half the night.
And that was almost half a century ago!
The idea was especially welcome, as she had become so organized that cleaning took no more than half the day.
Just half a century ago, Americans on average spent more than 20 percent of their income on food.
One and a half or two if you leave the wagons - and leave tonight.
He paused with the spoon half way to his lips and raised one brow.
I sat at a table after randomly pulling half dozen books from the shelf.
As a matter of fact, he hadn't said that since he spent half the night with his old flame.
Lisa half dragged her gapping friend down the hall.
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Now, what if the bottom half of jobs disappeared and were replaced by robots who did them for almost free?
Half a century ago, the United States had three channels on TV and everyone watched them.
Everyone stood up respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family.
She darted around him and ran for the door, but he caught her half way.
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Her gaze lingered on the remaining half a funnel cake.
We've got two and a half days.
The damage done to half her face caused horrible scarring that left her features lopsided and her skin knotted.
If he was half as creative at torturing people and planning his battles as he was in bed, he was more than capable of doing it.
AdvertisementHe knew the river lay far below and they'd negotiated less than half the distance.
Skidding, half on his feet, half on his seat, he had negotiated a hundred yards further when a glowing flash brightened the sky to the north.
A tow truck had already arrived and its flashing lights competed with a half dozen others while at least a dozen people moved about, with most of their activity directed downward.
I'm mighty glad to see her back on duty after only a half day off!
To make matters worse, half of Bird Song's guests who passed by congratulated him on the debate, a sure sign they hadn't been there.
AdvertisementDean returned to Bird Song mid-morning, showered, and walked the three blocks to Diversions, a combination used book store, coffee shop, and local gathering place, on Sixth Street, a half block from Main.
By the time Dean strolled by a few moments later, red-faced Fitzgerald was getting an ear full from a half dozen tourists and an elderly local, known for his unwavering opinions and surly disposition.
He found a fifth of whiskey setting on the counter and opened half the cabinet doors before finding a glass.
He would have killed me if I'd given him half a chance.
There's only a half dozen Lucky Strikes.
Deidre couldn't learn to become the human she created in half a day.
She made it through two and a half of the dinner-plate sized confections before she grimaced.
She pushed her shirt down and moved away to break contact, facing him again when half the bed was between them.
Gabriel moved through the meat locker, unaffected by the cold after the half hour battle.
Now, she was at least half the woman he'd spent lifetimes loving and hating.
After half an hour, she grew tired of the internal argument.
It sounded as if half a legion of armed Immortals was chasing someone through the fortress.
Wynn stood with a slender teen demoness, half of whose face was knotted with thick scars.
He met her half the distance and folded her in a warm embrace, his lips seeking hers briefly.
A half hour later she was leaning over him, listening to him breath.
You were exquisitely beautiful - standing against that wall looking so innocent – not posed like so many women do who have half as much to show off.
He was probably half asleep.
You scared me half to death.
It was hard to imagine she had a tumor in her brain the half the size of her fist.
She dug out the envelope from the funeral home and tore it in half.
Aside from drama, it was going to take half an eternity to straighten out the underworld without the distraction of a woman in his life.
At under six feet tall, Logan was still almost half a foot taller than she was.
Deidre waited half an hour then rose.
If he was half the man they believed him to be – and if she was half as bad as these two related to her – he'd resent her for the rest of their lives.
She wasn't sure why she expected either from him, except that she still held half a hope that she might live beyond three months.
He couldn't have the tumor – or half her brain missing – when he revived her.
Obliviously unaware that half his thoughts this afternoon and evening were on her naked, Deidre melted into his arms the moment he touched her.
I'll send someone over in about half an hour.
Deidre watched in growing horror as his teeth turned from normal to sharpened, and two long canines half the size of her index finger lengthened from his gum.
A second settled across the lower half of her face and two more around her torso.
His energy sapped, the kid was sprawled half asleep across the race car bed.
His three other half brothers were already present and waiting, Erik pacing, Kiki at the table, and Tamer busy with his PDA.
She'd fallen asleep in Kris's library after half a bottle of whiskey and awoken in her own bed with a throbbing headache and dry mouth.
She searched for half an hour before spotting her sister sitting in one of the airy rooms off the hallway near the buffet.
He'd thought himself in love with Lilith once, and so had Kris and half their brothers.
The only brother who'd accepted him and treated him half decently was gone?
He was taller than average, over six and a half feet, built like a rock with wide shoulders and tapered abdomen and hips beneath a jumpsuit similar to those worn by the prisoners.
Instead, she half ran, half leapt through the piles of bodies into the treed area lining two wide walkways.
The second woman with the flushed face returned with a plate heaped with half a cooked chicken smelling of garlic and spices, rice, and fried plantains.
Much. Would've wiped out the island by now and half of Cuba without realizing he'd done so.
He wondered if Death would.ve been more lenient if he stayed home with her and played nice instead of spending half his day in the mortal world.
Gabriel was sitting alone on top of one of the half dozen picnic tables.
The half moon.s light made the snow-covered forest glow eerily.
He changed forms in midair and dropped the half dozen feet to the ground, smelling Toby.s blood as he landed near it.
He was hundreds of thousands of mortal years old, but less than half a dozen in angel years.
A tremor of fear went through her, and Ully crept closer, as if she had half a chance of defending them.
The door was closed but lopsided in its frame while half the lights overhead were burnt out.
If you had half a brain, you.d have helped Rhyn and killed Sasha.
She'd never dated a man half as handsome, annoying, or caring as Romas, and she expected there were very few men like him to go around.
She relaxed into the comfortable black desk chair in front of her computer, wondering if Romas had told Evelyn of the half a dozen kids he expected.
Half the population of his planet had been decimated by famine and war.
I have no planet, half an army, no food or water for my people, and I must broker a peace deal.
The man she just passed was a foot taller than Romas and one and a half times as wide.
Ne'Rin returned his sword to a rack containing half a dozen similar swords in plain grey and approached Kiera.
I am so angry at you, and if you were half an inch smaller, I'd whip your hide, dhjan or not!
The pod stabilized upside down, and she was crammed into half of the pod, unable to move with her hands tied.
One and a half times what we have now.
We'll need half a day to evacuate the planet.
The woman looked half frightened to death and the young boy with her never said a word.
Dean paused half way through his pie, awaiting Fred's answer.
That's a stretch and a half, Fred.
Half the cars down there have USA license plates, and the models are so new they practically still have the family pet in the back seat.
Her dress was a half a step above the rag she used to polish the furniture and her hair had longer roots than Elmer Fudd's garden.
The Deans had utilized the site a half dozen times, including, in December, the council-sponsored full moon nighttime outing, followed by a dip in the town's hot spring pool.
While the distance to her aunt's trailer was only a half dozen blocks, once the January sun had retired after its day's work, it would be a cold walk.
He hoped she wasn't going to play a King Solomon and cut the damn thing in half but he withdrew a Swiss Army knife from his pocket.
Edith Shipton gave a half smile and left.
Edith's managed to slip out and meet me a half dozen times over the years, but that's it.
The two men first boarded chair lift number ten and ten and a half minutes later were eighteen hundred feet higher than Fred and Donnie, at nearly eleven thousand feet elevation.
You guys talk about spending overnights, hanging from a hammock sling, half way up some cliff on the other side of the world!
Fred had left a half hour earlier, to see Miss Worthington, about some business, or so he claimed.
Though he was away only a half hour, Cynthia displayed three new pages of transcription.
Dean took a deep breath, half expecting Ryland to demand that Edith leave, but there was only silence.
Alarm clocks ringing in the middle of the night, ghosts walking around, everyone hopping into someone else's bed, half the people wanting to kill the other half!
In spite of Cynthia's admonition he returned to the kitchen and cleaned the bacon grease from the floor, using half a roll of paper towels in completing the task.
You look half frozen to death.
A half hour later, with Dean never having removed the phone from his ear, they were ready to leave for the airport.
She had visited him in Ouray, nearly a year and a half before, while he was recuperating from a gunshot wound.
Sheriff Weller spent half the night here.
Yes, I did try to punch his lights out in front of half the town.
Still half asleep, he glanced at the clock and was shocked to see he'd failed to set his alarm.
Martha, although half her age, was taller by two inches than the elfin Franny.
He hesitated but remained half sitting on the edge of the bed.
The usual forty-five minute trip took little more than a half hour.
We talked on the phone half the day, to some lawyer guy.
The following weekend, two and a half weeks after Edith's death, Penny and Mick returned to bird Song for a couple of days of ice climbing, a further reminder of the ice park incident.
He sure didn't fall all the way down from where the line was cut and I doubt anyone cut the rope when he was half way down the cliff.
Me standing there half naked, Gladys screaming her fool head off, Edith's body hanging in the middle of the room....
He swung the ax once more, now only half a body length away.
I can't see why the fact that he used a pen would send you dashing up to the ice park and half kill yourself.
Can we please stop playing twenty questions and just tell me what you've been doing for the last two and a half hours?
Half the time pining for Miss Wonderful and the other half whining because she ripped my heart out!
What do you call deceiving me for two and a half months?
He gave her a half smile.
Connor shook his head with a half smile and started to make coffee.
After about a half hour of walking around trying to take everything in, Elisabeth said, "Pick one for yourself."
He opened the door before she made it half way up the walk, and as usual she left him breathless.
The lava cakes won't be ready for another half hour.
Jackson gave her a half grin.
I thought maybe a half hour or so before guests arrive.
Coronet Park was half way between their two houses, an easy walk from each.
Elisabeth and Jackson had already carved half the pumpkins, so were confident they would finish in time.
It still held about half of its bright red leaves.
He arrived a half hour early and could barely contain his anxiety.
His face softened and his lips turned up in a half smile.
When they were about half way through the game he asked, "Do you think she will ever agree to stay for the full moon again?"
I imagine he's forgotten half of the information, and the other half is probably outdated.
Alex paused with the fork half way to his mouth and studied the meat uneasily.
How do you get used to carrying something half your size?
Half way to the house she turned to find him slowly following, absorbed in the beauty of the winter storm.
She buried a gloved hand in the snow and extracted the half tire that served as a watering trough.
She darted around the apple tree and half skipped, half ran down the hill toward the creek.
Bill picked Katie up a half hour ago.
She pointed at a picture where Alex and Carmen were half hidden behind another couple.
She started for the door to stop him, but half way to her destination she paused.
One ear was torn half off and his fur was bloody around the collar.
We wouldn't know the half of it without your intel.
Just one of the missing keypads was enough to cripple half the country.
The administrator scan, which only the President or Vice President could run, came back with half a dozen errors.
Suddenly, half a dozen well-armed men appeared below her.
He tossed her micro, pills, and a vault half the size of his hand on the pillows near him.
Shadows covered half his face, rendering his chiseled features and low brow sinister.
It'll only drop a man half my size for five minutes.
Sent her to half a dozen agencies on rotation.
He was bigger than Brady by a head and one and a half times as wide.
They saw the smoke half an hour before they arrived and approached with caution.
Greene gassed everyone in the mountain and intended to take over the Peak and use it as a base of operations for his people to use as they took over the eastern half of the US.
The docs put you in a coma for over a week in order to transplant half your organs.
He'd wolfed half of it down by the time the two left him alone in the room.
Brady tapped his foot, frustrated they'd wasted half a day without finding any trace of her.
Half an hour later, the chopper descended near the crater.
Within half an hour, the metal door leading to the tunnel system was cleared away.
Now, I have half a country to salvage.
I almost believed we had half a chance.
The tree dropped, caught, and dropped him again, catching him half a second before he hit the ground. He landed on his back at Ully's feet. The scientist knelt beside him, one hand on his head.
She walked for half an hour, until rain began to trickle through the jungle overhead. Andre didn't reappear.
The black sand had run out. He'd missed his window. Rather, he missed this window. He looked over at the demon standing before him. At least one of his super-demons had survived. This one still wore half a face, that of Death's favorite assassin, Gabriel.
Half an hour before lights out, I turned it off and went to the bathroom.
Not even the commuters who lied to themselves and everyone else by saying the hour and a half at each end of the day was a pleasurable time to relax and read the paper.
He was in better shape than half the office, by Mayer's assessment.
He was remarkably spry, healthy for his age, and had broken the hearts of half the widows in Parkside.
Dean began to float back to sleep, half content in the thought that the storm might wash out the steamy, unseasonable humidity.
The courtroom was half filled, mostly with pensioners who looked to the system for their daily entertainment.
Before this started, I'd have settled for half of what Shakey Jake caught, all because his lawyer didn't know when to shut up!
Dean looked at the bottom half of a small register receipt showing the amount of $59.95.
The top half, which might have identified the date and the store was missing as if the slip had been torn in two.
Or maybe that half blew back in the window when someone tore it in two and tossed it.
The area was nearly empty except for crying gulls, a man running with his dog, and an elderly lady propped up in a half chair reading.
Vinnie claimed to be able to show the police where Billie and Willie had been hiding and continued to brag that he had enough information to make headlines and sink half the Philadelphia mobsters.
Saturday was more than half over before Dean was able to leave.
While Dean wanted the opportunity to speak with her in person after his Norfolk trip, he didn't feel in the best mood to do it after spending half the night and day coping with Vinnie Baratto and his sleazy friends.
Me and DeLeo interviewed half their sleazy friends and got nowhere.
As it turned out, the safe house location was safe with Dean as he had no idea where they were after the first half dozen turns.
He rose abruptly, his coffee only half finished, and paid his bill.
Like I told you, when the twins found out half the state was after their ass, they laid low—for a long time, couple of months.
She agreed to meet him at a highway coffee shop he remembered on the outskirts of Bala Cynwyd, in an hour and a half.
Everybody thinks everybody else is sleeping with each other just because half of them are.
He couldn't keep his hands off half the office.
She finished the remaining half of her drink in one gulp.
Dean lifted her in his arms and slowly picked his way up the beach in the direction from which he'd come, half staggering through the soft sand.
Dean began to peel away her soaked clothes, half expecting her to wake and scream bloody murder that he was raping her.
Nothing, unless you count a tire patch kit and a half a receipt for $59.95, neither of which probably even belonged to Byrne.
Cynthia nibbled half a grilled cheese.
In spite of the disappointing weather Dean was determined to fit some serious biking into the salvaged half of what should have been a free weekend.
Yet try as he may, he didn't know the names of the three little kids next door, who'd come trick-or-treating for a half dozen years, sold Girl Scout cookies and always smiled—and they knew his name.
Andy Sackler and Dean responded to a call crosstown at Ralph's Barber Shop, where they found a crowd milling around the sidewalk and a half dozen customers seated inside.
It took a pot and a half of coffee and a lot of patience before Dean learned just how complicated the Scranton excursion and return trip had been.
Dean couldn't think of more than 20 names—Ethel Rosewater, Cynthia Byrne, David Dean, even Jeffrey Byrne, not to mention half of Arthur's gay friends and lovers and most of his ex-clients.
Dean let him talk it out, half listening, half trying to make sense of all the details.
He gets to keep half of it.
Dean fidgeted in his seat, an arm's length from the door and half an arm length from a light switch.
He was scared half to death.
He and his pals have half the dough and could care less about me.
He was your husband for half your life and the father of your son, he answered.
He licked his face and went back to panting, his eyes half open as he waited patiently beside her.
Footsteps sounded behind her and she whirled, half expecting to see Josh.
It sprawled out half way across the pasture toward her house.
I get frustrated sometimes, but... who was it that said anticipation was half the fun – or something like that?
No doubt Alex still remembered the way she kicked around in the snow for the half tires, stomped them to get the ice out, and then filled them with water carried from the old farm house.
The fork paused half way to his mouth, his startled gaze meeting hers.
She caught up with Brutus near the tree line and that was when she saw it – half hidden under a dead limb.
A rare late October snowstorm only visited a half day and the snow didn't stay on the ground long, but it made a serious statement.
A half hour passed, and then an hour before she decided to check on him.
The clinic doesn't open for another hour and a half, and I can dress in five minutes.
You're seventy-five percent testosterone and the other half is ego.
The first two nights he was out on calls half the night and gone to work all day.
Half awake, she slowly glanced around the room.
Half the orchard was on fire while the other half rained delicate pink-white blooms from the apple trees.
She'd pulled on her boots and snatched her backpack before she was half awake, running towards the door.
Half his face was burned beyond recognition, but the other half … Darian, you fool!
Built into the mountain, half the fortress was tucked into the stone of a small peak.
Half a moment before she stepped through the portal, she triggered a magic alert that reverberated through him.
Yours are probably already made, if you're half as stubborn as Damian, Sofi replied.
He reached forward, half expecting her to punch him, and wiped the tears from her cheek with his thumb.
Charles was half dressed, wearing sweats only.
One of the guardsmen was half the size of the other two, and his strikes were almost too fast and low for her to catch.
The ocean was visible; she estimated they were about half a mile from the orchard.
They were half the size of her longest finger.
She leapt through it, half blinded, and tackled him.
She forced herself up and half stumbled, half ran away from the portal.
For now, he couldn't fathom an existence in a home filled with a family when he'd lost his other half.
She'd lost a family and a world, only to discover the other half of her soul in the man before her.
That left her with two allies, neither of which was within half a day's ride.
She gazed around, realizing that she and the two members of her guard occupied a cage filled with the bloated corpses of a half dozen other men, what was left of her guard.
He nodded, half listening, as he leaned over the side of the ship again.
Rissa gazed at the maps before her, half listening to Hilden explaining their situation to her.
You do not think it could have changed in the past half a day?
Of the half dozen bladders in the secret cupboard, three were filled.
To her dismay, the traitor's name came out a half sob.
Taran had spent half his life in this place with nothing but darkness and Jame, his friend.
She half laughed, half sobbed in response.
It took nearly a half hour to find Jonathan and another fifteen minutes to separate him from two attractive girls.
Less than a half hour later he was out the door.
Alex joined them at church half way through the sermon, looking handsome and sophisticated in a light gray suit.
I promised to work a half day today.
He spelled her for a while, digging twice as much in half the time.
For a moment he tottered, half on and half off the horse, his eyes large.
She had made a list of questions, but after asking half of them, she wound up setting them aside and letting instinct guide her.
Natalie stood at the end of the hall, half hidden behind the wall, her eyes large and imploring.
It's half Collie and half Golden Lab.
I was angry because you went up there alone – scared half out of my mind with the thought that you could have been killed.
She was half listening to him while she watched Denton reluctantly leave Clarissa and glance around the crowd.
Denton paused with his fork half way to his mouth, the saucer of cake perched delicately on his other hand.
The car wouldn't have been her choice, but it was the only rental available - unless she wanted to wait around for half a day until another was returned.
As near as she could figure, it was more than half full - all she would need.
It's only been a day and a half.
Refreshed and clean, she made herself a sandwich of lunch meat and scratched her way through half of a novel before she gave up and went to the bathroom to search for some kind of ointment.
Taking a few steps back she gripped the ax half way down on the handle and slammed it down against the block of wood with a dull whack.
A small crack traveled about half way down the piece of wood.
Again she swung the ax, and this time it went half way through the log.
With one stroke he lopped the wood in half.
Grasping the handle of the machete, she half fell, half leaped behind the log.
We plow them under so we can plant a garden and then spend half our time pulling them out of it so we can grow something to eat.
With the alarm blaring in his mind, he only half paid attention.
Half an hour later, she set the book on the table beside the couch, prepped the cat's meal and went in search of the beast.
But Xander's enhanced eyesight was able to see one half of the strange interaction.
That was after half a day of work.
This is –" "Great, well we'll be about half an hour early.
The guy Jonny sent was half Xander's size and left a handprint on her arm.
They won't let me in, Ashley's text was accompanied by half a dozen frowny faces.
Xander moved with an agility she'd never seen before in someone half his size.
Tell Xander you're going to walk around for about half an hour and you'll meet him back at the food court.
Be back in half an hour.
Half an hour later, when he was finished with her, she lay trembling.
He took his attention off Jessi for half a second to glance down at Ashley and assess if she was okay.
Half a head shorter than him, the Black God didn't back down for once when Xander strode to him, stopping when his toes clipped Jonny's.
Though the controversy went on, its most important result had already been achieved in the silencing of Convocation, for that body, though it had just "seemed to be settling down to its proper work in dealing with the real exigencies of the church" when the Hoadly dispute arose, did not meet again for the despatch of business for nearly a century and a half.
In height it stood about the same as a young individual of the ordinary African elephant when about a year and a half old, the vertical measurement at the shoulder being only 4 ft., or merely a foot higher than a new-born Indian elephant.
Nothing was stated as to the probability of an increase in the stature of the French Congo animal as it grows older; but even if we allow another foot, its height would be considerably less than half that of a large Central African bull of the ordinary elephant.
It is of course quite possible that isolated cases of officers being put to death for their faith occurred during Maximinian's reign, and on some such cases the legend may have grown up during the century and a half between Maximinian and Eucherius.
The Mediterranean is all that remains of a great ocean which at an early geological epoch, before the formation of the Atlantic, encircled half the globe along a line of latitude.
The work of reclamation was removed farther eastwards to Helenaveen in the second half of the 19th century.
Though her husband was a patron of Rousseau, she herself had narrowly escaped the guillotine, and had only half imbibed the ideas of the Revolution.
She invented a deity of her own, a mysterious Corambe, half pagan and half Christian, and like Goethe erected to him a rustic altar of the greenest grass, the softest moss and the brightest pebbles.
She was but half converted, and fled before long from a republic in which art and poetry had no place.
Under favourable conditions more than half the light is polarized.
The cognate industry of bleaching has been carried on since early in the 18th century, and large ironworks grew up in the latter half of the 19th century.
In April 1718 fresh confessions were extorted from Alexius, now utterly broken and half idiotic with fright.
The Senate is composed (1910) of thirty members, chosen from fifteen districts for a term of four years, but one half the membership retires biennially.
He is credited with having taken half the scholars and fellows of Winchester to Eton to start the school there.
The number of scholars was largely increased by an election of 25 new ones on the 26th of September 1444, the income being then 946, of which the king contributed £120 and Waynflete or more than half his stipend of X30 a year.
They provided for a head and 70 scholars, but the latter were divided into 40 fellows and 30 scholars called demies, because their commons were half .those of the fellows.
The south pavilion of the present house is the original brick building, one and a half storeys high, first occupied by Jefferson in 1770.
The two ends of the loch are wholly dissimilar in character, the scenery of the upper extremity being majestic, while that of the lower half is pastoral and tame.
The northern portion of it consists of a lofty ridge with two summits, the westernmost of which is occupied by the modern town (985 ft.), while the easternmost, which is slightly higher, bears the name of Rock of Athena, owing to its identification in modern days with the acropolis of Acragas as described by Polybius, who places upon it the temple of Zeus Atabyrius (the erection of which was attributed to the half mythical Phalaris) and that of Athena.'
The pitch of the screw is the same as that of the measuring screw (50 threads to the inch), and its motion can be limited by a stop to half a revolution.
Anthropologists, indeed, have recently observed a large proportion of individuals of exceptionally small stature, not found in Sardinia only, but elsewhere in south Italy also; though in Sardinia they are distributed over the whole island, and especially in the southern half.
This occurred especially in the last half of the 19th century, largely owing to the abolition of the so-called beni ademprivili.
In 1865, however, it was suppressed, and one half of the beni ademprivili was assigned to the state, the other half being given to the communes, with the obligation of compensating those who claimed rights over these lands.
A mile and a half northeast are the Falls of Bracklinn (Gaelic, "white-foaming pool"), formed by the Keltie, which takes a leap of 50 ft.
The remnants of this monument are still kept up. It stands half a mile to the east from Nish, and is called to this day by the Turkish name "Tyele-Koula," "the Tower of Skulls."
Godollo is the summer residence of the Hungarian royal family, and the royal castle, built in the second half of the 18th century by Prince Anton Grassalkovich, was, with the beautiful domain, presented by the Hungarian nation to King Francis Joseph I.
The best account of Descartes's mental history during his life in Holland is contained in his letters, which extend over the whole period, and are particularly frequent in the latter half.
In 1557, however, a great flood caused the Tiber to change its course, so that it no longer flowed under the walls of the castle, but some half a mile farther west; and its old bed (Fiume Morto) has ever since then served as a breeding ground for the malarial mosquito (Anopheles claviger).
The Baltic seaboard was lost to Muscovy for another century and a half.
From the time of its foundation as a Greek colony to the present day it has always been a considerable emporium of commerce, and it was for two centuries and a half the capital of an empire.
The vilayet, of which Trebizond is the chief town, consists of a long irregular strip of coast country, the eastern half of which is deeply indented and mountainous.
There are two considerable fragments of an English alliterative romance on the subject written in the west midland dialect, and dating from the second half of the 14th century.
He further tells us this pitch was a tone, nearly a tone and a half, higher than a suitable church pitch (Chorton), for which he gives a diagram.
Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley's comparison of the church and chamber pitches of Orlando Gibbons (vide Ellis's lecture) clearly shows the minor third in Great Britain in the first half of the 17th century.
Of the Sarcopsyllidae the best known species is the "jigger" or "chigoe" (Dermatophilus penetrans), indigenous in tropical South America and introduced into West Africa during the second half of last century.
For the next year and a half he worked at the higher philosophy, in which he encountered greater obstacles.
In the latter half of the century large colonies of Tosks were planted in the Morea by the despots of Mistra, and in Attica and Boeotia by Duke Nerio of Athens.
The carboniferous and older stratified beds still cover the west half of the hills, while from the east half they have been removed, exposing the granite.
The Saskatchewan, though not in the province, empties into Lake Winnipeg less than half a degree from the northern boundary.
The materials required are iron borings, sal-ammoniac and sulphur; these are mixed together, moistened with water, and rammed into the socket, which is previously half filled with yarn, well caulked.
A few years later Cardinal St Croix reckoned that the Huguenots were one half of the population.
Nine of these Puritan Presbyterian churches were established on Long Island between 1640 and 1670 - one at Southampton and one at Southold (originally of the Congregational type) in 1640, one at Hempstead about 1644, one at Jamaica in 1662, and churches at Newtown and Setauket in the next half century; and three Puritan Presbyterian churches were established in Westchester county, New York, between 1677 and 1685.
In the extreme north a little over a degree and a half of territory lies within the torrid zone, extending from the Pilcomayo about 500 m.
During the first half of the 19th century civil war and despotic government seriously restricted the natural growth of the country, but since the definite organization of the republic in 1860 and the settlement of disturbing political controversies, the population had increased rapidly.
Salt, &c.Rock-salt is worked chiefly in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle,which produces more than half the average annual product of salt.
Those of the first class, which comprise rather less than half the entire system, have a minimum depth of 64 ft., with locks 126 ft.
In theory a two-years contingent of course should be half as large again as a three-years one, but in practice, France has not men enough for so great an increase.
In the other colonies and protectorates more than half the trade is with foreign countries.
After the peace of Westphalia Stralsund was ceded with the rest of Western Pomerania to Sweden; and for more than a century and a half it was exposed to attack and capture as the tete - de - pont of the Swedes in continental Europe.
The majority of the birds are of endemic species peculiar to different islets, while more than half belong to peculiar genera.
More than half of the flora is unknown elsewhere.
The muzzle is hairy, the ears are of moderate size, and the tail is short, and partially buried among the long hair of the rump. There are no glands on the face; but there is a large globular one at the base of each horn of the size of half a small orange..
If the 15th always was full moon day, the 7th would coincide well with half moon, but the 21st and 28th would fall away considerably from the moon's phases.
It was continued by Mademoiselle de Montpensier in the latter half of the 17th century, and restored by Louis Philippe who, in 1843 and 1845, received Queen Victoria within its walls.
It consists in the main of an Archean block or " coign,"which still occupies nearly the whole of the western half of the continent, outcrops in north-eastern Queensland, forms the foundation of southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria, and is exposed in western Victoria, in Tasmania, and in the western flank of the Southern Alps of New Zealand.
Numerically the flocks of Australia represent one-sixth of the world's sheep, and in just over half a century (1851-1905) the exports of Australian wool alone reached the value of £650,000,000.
In Queensland waters there are about 300 vessels, and on the Western Australian coast about 450 licensed craft engaged in the industry, the annual value of pearl-shell and pearls raised being nearly half a million sterling.
The returns from the copper fields in the state are at present a little over half a million sterling per annum, and would be still greater if it were not for the lack of suitable fuel for smelting purposes, which renders the economical treatment of the ore difficult; the development of the mines is also retarded by the want of easy and cheaper communication with the coast.
The exports of breadstuffs - chiefly to the United Kingdom - exceed six millions per annum, butter two and a half millions, and minerals of all kinds, except gold, six millions.
Skirting the low shores of this gulf, all the way round its upper half to the Roper, Leichhardt crossed Arnheim Land to the Alligator river, which he descended to the western shore of the peninsula, and arrived at Port Victoria, otherwise Port Essington, after a journey of 3000 m., performed within a year and three months.
The Senate was to consist of the same number of members (not less than six) for each state, the term of service being six years, but subject to an arrangement that half the number would retire every three years.
It was not long, however, before the party itself became divided on the fiscal question; and a Protectionist government coming into power, about half the Labour members gave it consistent support and enabled it to maintain office for about three years, the party as a political unit being thus destroyed.
The surface on the whole is hilly and is partly occupied by offshoots of the Thuringian Forest; the highest summits are found in the eastern half, where the Kieferle reaches 2849 ft.
More than half the combatants (8357, of whom 3000 were Swedes) actually perished on the battle-field.
These were removed to Paris, and when Napoleon was crowned emperor a century and a half later he chose Childeric's bees for the decoration of his coronation mantle.
Although the first definite endeavour to locate the Golden Chersonese thus dates from the middle of the 2nd century of our era, the name was apparently well known to the learned of Europe at a somewhat earlier period, and in his Antiquities of the Jews, written during the latter half of the 1st century, Josephus says that Solomon gave to the pilots furnished to him by Hiram of Tyre commands " that they should go along with his stewards to the land that of old was called Ophir, but now the Aurea Chersonesus, which belongs to India, to fetch gold."
After returning to private life, Seward spent two years and a half in travel and died at Auburn on the 10th of October 1872.
Although the idol of his victorious army, and in a position enabling him to exercise autocratic power, he laboured unostentatiously for more than a year and a half as a member of the parliament, whose authority he supported to the best of his ability.
The greatest feat of Turenne was the rescue of one province in 1674-1675; Cromwell, in 1648 and again in 1651, had two-thirds of England and half of Scotland for his theatre of war.
Half a mile east of Kabul it is joined by the Logar, a much larger river, which rises beyond Ghazni among the slopes of the Gul Koh (14,200 ft.), and drains the rich and picturesque valleys of LGgar and Wardak.
The main body of his works belongs, so far as can be ascertained from the scanty evidence which we have, to the latter half of his life; 206 B.C. is the approximate date of the Miles gloriosus; cf.
It is celebrated for the ruins of early aboriginal buildings still extant, about half a mile from its present site.
Spain, the Gauls, Britain and Africa, leaving to Valens the eastern half of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece, Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor as far as Persia.
Even if he refloated the ship he had to pay a fine of half its value for sinking it.
The children were free, and at the slave's death the wife took her dowry and half what she and her husband had acquired in wedlock for self and children; the master taking the other half as his slave's heir.
It differs from the open circuit in only requiring one battery (although, as in the figure, half of it is often placed at each end), in having the re circuit ceiving instrument between the line and the key, and in having the battery continuously to the line.
The first part will be, as before, zinc to the line; at the next half stroke of the beam M will not pass through, as there is no hole in the paper; but at the third half stroke it passes through and copper is put to the line.
In the Murray system the messages are first prepared in the form of a strip of perforated paper about half an inch wide.
The shore end was landed in Valentia Harbour on the 5th of August, and next morning paying out was started by the " Niagara," to which the laying of the first half had been entrusted.
Experiments of this kind were actually tried by Graham Bell in 1882, with boats on the Potomac river, and signals were detected at a distance of a mile and a half.
In the case of the plain or directly excited antenna the oscillations are highly damped, and each train probably only consists at most of half a dozen oscillations.
Rutherford used this detector to make evident the passage of an electric or Hertzian wave for half a mile across Cambridge, England.
Fleming discovered that if the filament is made incandescent by the current from an insulated battery there is a unilateral conductivity of the rarefied gas between the hot filament and the metal plate, such that if the negative terminal of the filament is connected outside the lamp through a coil in which electric oscillations are created with the platinum plate, only one half of the oscillations are permitted to pass, viz., those which carry negative electricity from the hot filament to the cooled plate through the vacuous space.
The industrial and commercial progress of Cartagena was much hindered, during the first half of the 19th century, by the prevalence of epidemic diseases, the abandonment of the arsenal, and rivalry with the neighbouring port of Alicante.
He sometimes held the carbon powder against the diaphragm in a small tr ans' shallow cell (from a quarter to half an inch in diameter and about an eighth of an inch deep), and sometimes he used what he describes as a fluff, that is, a little brush of silk fibre with plumbago rubbed into it.
Pupin showed that by placing inductance coils in circuit, at distances apart of less than half the length of the shortest component wave to be transmitted, a non-uniform conductor could be made approximately equal to a uniform conductor.
A reduction has been made in the charges for trunk calls at night, and calls for single periods of three minutes are allowed at half the ordinary rates between 7 p.m.
Frequently half his nights were spent in reading, after the labour of his most strenuous days.
Its waters have been in great part carried off by an artificial channel, and more than half its surface laid bare.
Divorce is forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church, and only 839 judicial separations were obtained from the courts in 1902, more than half of the demands made having been abandoned.
Italians form about half of the total emigrants to America.
In upper Italy cattle are principally reared in pens and stalls; in central Italy cattle are allowed to run half wild, the stall system being little practised; in the south and in the islands cattle are kept in the open air, few shelters being provided.
Co-operative dairy farms are numerous in north Italy, and though only about half as many as in 1889 (114 in 1902) are better organized.
This repayment sometimes consists of half the estimated value of the standing crops.
Special contracts, known as colonie immovibili and colonie tern poranee are applied to the latifondi or huge estates, the owners of which receive half the produce, except that of the vines, olive-trees and woods, which he leases separately.
The estaglio, or rent, is often paid in kind, and is equivalent to half the produce of good land and one-third of the produce of bad land.
Improvement contracts are granted for uncultivated bush districts, where one fourth of the produce goes to the landlord, and for plantations of fig-trees, olive-trees and vines, half of the produce of which belongs to the landlord, who at the end of ten years reimburses the tenant for a part of the improvements effected.
In 1902 there were 23,098 boats, manned by 101,720 men, and the total catch was valued at just over half a million sterlingaccording to the government figures, which are certainly below the truth.
The value of the product has, however, proportionately increased, so that the sum realized was little less, while less than half the number of men was employed.
The number has been reduced to less than half since 1897 by the suppression of smaller factories, while the production has increased from 47,690 millions to 59,741 millions.
By the act of 1903 the state contributes half and the province a quarter of the cost of roads connecting communes with the nearest railway stations or landing places.
Infant asylums (where the first rudiments of instruction are imparted to children between two and a half and six years of age) and elementary schools have increased in number.
Of the sum spent by the provincial authorities, over half goes to lunatic asylums and over a quarter to the maintenance of foundling hospitals.
Protestants number some 65,000, of whom half are Italian and half foreign.
No candidate can be returned unless he obtains more than half the votes given and more than one-sixth of the total number on the register; otherwise a second ballot must be 1898-1899.19021903.
Each provincial administrative junta is composed, in part, of government nominees, and in larger part of elective elements, elected by the provincial council for four years, half of whom require to be elected every two years.
At the end of this century and a half, five principal powers divided the peninsula; and their confederated action during the next forty-five years (1447-1492) secured for Italy a season of peace and brilliant pro,sperity.
Charles Albert could dispose of 90,000 men, including some 30,000 from central Italy, but he took the field with only half his force.
Thus, after a struggle of more than half a century, ix spite of apparently insuperable obstacles, the liberation an the unity of Italy were accomplished.
When, on the 1st of January 1869, the new tax came into force, nearly half the flour-mills in Italy ceased work.
Only second in importance to this was the re-adjustment of the creed and liturgy of the church, which formed Cranmer's principal work during the latter half of his life.
To in- «A tuitionalism, half is a posteriori and half a priori.
If it is ultimate truth in its own region, that region cannot be accepted as more than half the entire universe of reality (common sense intuitionalism; dualism).
Hence there are tendencies even in Plato to build up the ideal world in sharp contrast to the actual world - to the half interpenetrated or half tamed world of matter.
Against Manichaean dualism he had vindicated free will; but as against Pelagianism he taught the bondage of sinful man - a position accepted in the East but never welcome there, and not more than half welcome even in the West.
Descartes was an expert; Bacon was the prophet of a great, if half comprehended, future; and the science they loved was struggling for its infant life against a mass of traditional prejudices, which sought to foreclose every question by confident assertions about the purposes of God and Nature.
For the other half he falls back on ratiocination.
The manubrium is absent altogether in the fresh-water medusa Limnocnida, in which the diameter of the mouth exceeds half that of the umbrella; on the other hand, the manubrium may attain a great length, owing to the centre of the sub-umbrella with the stomach being drawn into it, as it were, to form a long proboscis, as in Geryonia.
Ceratella stands in much the same relation to the Stylasteridae that Hydractinia does to the Milleporidae, in both cases the chitinous perisarc being replaced by the solid coenosteum to which the hydrocorallines owe the second half of their name.
In the latter half of the 16th century the direction of education fell into the hands of the Jesuits.
Locke half playfully touches on certain monsters, with respect to which it is difficult to determine whether they ought to be called men.
Of these risings the most notable was that, in the earlier half of the 14th century, against Louis de Crecy, count of Flanders, under the leadership of Jacob van Artevelde (q.v.).
Extensive use is made of building materials from the Roman station of Corstopitum (also called Corchester), which lay half a mile west of Corbridge at the junction of the Cor with the Tyne.
The performances of Los Comuneros were attended by members of the different parties; the utterances of the different characters were taken to represent the author's personal opinions, and every speech which could be brought into connexion with current politics was applauded by one half of the house and derided by the other half.
In the northern half of the district the Tatar element predominates (40,000) and there are a number of villages occupied by Russian Raskolniks (Nonconformists).
The subject was practically dormant for nearly a century and a half, largely owing to the dominance of classificatory botany under the in.fluen.ce of Linnaeus.
From this branches pass into the middle region of the cortex and ramify through the interior half of its cells.
It is clear, however, that an equal quantitative division and distribution of the chromatin to the daughter cells is brought about; and if, as has been suggested, the chromatin consists of minute particles or units which are the carriers of the hereditary characteristics, the nuclear division also probably results in the equal division and distribution of one half of each of these units to each daughter cell.
The reduction is brought about simply by the segmentation of the spirem thread into half the number of segments instead of the normal number.
One half of the earth has therefore a greater density than the other.
Taking, however, the Andean flora as typical, it contains a very marked endemic element; Ball finds that half the genera and four-fifths of the species are limited to it; on the other hand, that half the species of Gamopetalae belong to cosmopolitan genera such as Valeriana, Gentiana, Bartsia and Gnaphalium.
The voyage of Lord Anson to the Pacific in 1740-1744 was of a predatory character, and he lost more than half his men from scurvy; while it is not pleasant to reflect that at the very time when the French and Spaniards were measuring an arc of the meridian at Quito, the British under Anson were pillaging along the coast of the Pacific and burning the town of Payta.
So it seems that the dynasty, which more than half a century later succeeded in throwing off the Assyrian yoke and founded the Median empire, was derived from this Dayukku, and that his name was thus introduced into the Median traditions, which contrary to history considered him as founder of the kingdom.
After the explosion he hurried back to Holyrood and feigned surprise at the receipt of the news half an hour later, ascribing the catastrophe to "the strangest accident that ever chancit, to wit, the fouder (lightning) came out of the luft (sky) and had burnt the king's house."
The Gothic choir, forming the more modern portion of the cathedral, was added during the latter half of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century, and contains the tomb of the emperor Otto III.
The premaxilla is always unpaired, but each half has three long processes directed backwards; one fuses with the maxillary bone, another helps to form the anterior part of the palate, while the third, together with its fellow, forms the " culmen " and extends backwards to the frontals, or rather to the ethmoid which there crops up on the surface.
The distal half of the fibula is very slender and normally does not reach the ankle-joint; it is attached to the peroneal ridge of the tibia.
The first is generally composed of three nerves, the hindmost of which, the furcalis, issues in most birds between the last two lumbo-sacral vertebrae, and then divides, one half going to the crural, the other to the sciatic portions.
The anterior half of the sclerotic is composed of a ring of some ten to seventeen cartilaginous or bony scales which partly overlap each other.
The apex of the cochlea is turned towards, and almost reaches the anterior wall of the occipital condyle; at most it makes but half a twist or turn; it possesses both Reissner's membrane and the organ of Corti.
The lower portion of the trachea consists of thin membranes, about half a dozen of the rings being very thin or deficient.
It occurs in two different forms. In the Ratitae, except Rhea, it consists mainly of a right and left united half (corpora fibrosa), with a deep longitudinal furrow on the dorsal side, and much resembles the same organ in crocodiles and tortoises.
This line became extinct on the death of Count Eberhard (1393), who in 1385 had sold half his territory to the count palatine of the Rhine, and held the other half as his feudatory.
The carpet-looms at work now number several hundreds, while looms of silk and shawl number less than half what they did in 1890.
Half a century later the famous Gaon Seadiah, also of Sura, issued his Siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic. Besides the Siddur, or order for Sabbaths and general use, there is the Mahzor (cycle) for festivals and fasts.
In the first half of the 13th century, Abraham ibn Ilasdai, a vigorous supporter of Maimonides, translated (or adapted) a large number of philosophical works from Arabic, among them being the Sepher ha-tappuah, based on Aristotle's de Anima, and the Mozene Zedeq of Ghazzali on moral philosophy, of both of which the originals are lost.
In the first half of the 14th century lived the two translators Qalonymos ben David and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos, the latter of whom translated many works of Galen and Averroes, and various scientific treatises, besides writing original works, e.g.
For a century and a half from 1228 the successors of Su-ka-pha appear to have ruled undisturbed over a small territory in Lakkimpur and Sibsagar districts.
It is built on the slopes of a hill which half encircles the place, and over the celebrated salt-mines of the same name.
There is a trade with China, valued at less than half a million sterling annually.
Half a day's journey beyond Sura, on the Mesopotamian side of the river, are the extensive ruins of Haragla (Heraclea) and Rakka, once the capital of Harun al-Rashid (Nicephorium of Alexander; Callinicus of the Seleucids and Romans).
Half a day's journey beyond, at a point where two great wadis enter the Euphrates, on the Syrian side, stands Jabriya, an unidentified ruined town of Babylonian type, with walls of unbaked brick, instead of the stone heretofore encountered.
The fourth city, Thilutha or Olabus, once occupied the present deserted island of Telbeis, half a day's journey below `Ana.
Though still half oriental, and wholly beautiful, with its Turkish bazaar, its hundred mosques, wooden houses and cypress groves, it was largely rebuilt, after 1878, in western fashion.
The southern half of the country is mostly undulating grass land, well watered by streams and springs.
Primary instruction is nominally obligatory; nevertheless at the beginning of the 10th century nearly half the population over six years of age was illiterate.
Nearly half the ex- penditure goes to meet debt charges, while government, internal development and defence absorb most of the remainder.
Its note issue (for which it has an exclusive right) may not exceed the value of half the subscribed capital.
A half, fifth and tenth of a peso are coined in silver, in addition to bronze coins.
At the same time a little trioxide is formed, and, according to Hempel (Ber., 1890, 2 3, p. 1 455), half the sulphur is converted into this oxide if the combustion be carried out in oxygen at a pressure of 40 to 50 atmospheres.
It does not seem to be older than the first half of the 17th century.
Pop. (1900), 34,188, of which half were Jews.
In the latter part of 1790 the country was occupied by the British; and under the treaty concluded in 1792, whereby Tippoo was deprived of half his dominions, Calicut fell to the British.
Corundum indeed is abundantly met with in the eastern half of Liberia.
The great migrations took place during the first half of the 19th century.
Mysterious doctrines are ascribed by Protestants to scripture; so half of revelation is regarded as matter for blind assent, if another half is luminous in experience.
In 1549 they spread into Great Poland; in the latter half of the century they opened many voluntary schools, and were joined by many of the nobility; and the result was that by 1609, when Rudolph II.
Half of a large colony, the flagellates embedded in a common jelly.
From this time, probably, East Anglia was governed by English earls, the most famous of whom were zEthelstan, surnamed Half - King (932-956) and his sons, lEthelwold (956-962), and tEthelwine, surnamed Dei amicus (962-992).
In the latter half of the 15th century Sofia, owing to its situation at the junction of several trade routes, became an important centre of Ragusan commerce.
Altogether, half the annual expenditure of the country is outside the control of parliament.
Russia between May the 18th and the 24th, sa that it is only in June that warm weather sets in definitely, and it reaches its maximum in the first half of July (or of August on the Black Sea coast).
It does not, however, prevail for long, and in the first half of September frosts begin on the middle Urals.
Half of them were formerly serfs (10,447,149 males in 1858) - the remainder being " state peasants " (9,194,891 males in 1858, exclusive of the Archangel government) and " domain peasants " (842,740 males the same year).
Every year more than half the adult males (in some districts three-fourths of the men and one-third of the women) quit their homes and wander throughout Russia in search of labour.
One of his successors, half a century later, married a daughter of the Byzantine emperor, and gave his own daughter in marriage to a Russian prince.
With the suppression and absorption of the independent principalities the problem was only half solved.
That opportunity came when Basil died in 1533, leaving as successor a child only three years old, and the chances seemed all on the side of the nobles; but the result belied the current expectations, for the child came to be known in history as Ivan the Terrible, and died half a century later in the full enjoyment of unlimited autocratic power.
For half a century the struggle between the two races went on with varying success, but on the whole the Polish government proved stronger than its insubordinate subjects, and about 1638 it seemed to have attained its object.
His foreign tour, during which he visited Germany, Holland, England, France and Austria, lasted nearly a year and a half, and was suddenly interrupted, when on his way from Vienna to Venice to study the construction of war-galleys, by the alarming news that the turbulent stryeltsi of Moscow had mutinied anew with the intention of placing Sophia on the throne.
The former faction triumphed, and Catherine reigned for about a year and a half, after which the son of the cesarevich Alexius, Peter II., occupied the throne from 1727 to 1730.
The iron tramway or railway had been known for half a century and had come into considerable use in connexion with collieries and quarries before it was realized that for the carriage FIG.
A system of charges which compels each piece of traffic to pay its share of the charges for track and for stations overlooks the fundamental fact that a very large part of the expenses of a railway - more than half - is not connected either with the cost of moving traffic or of handling traffic at stations, but with the cost of maintaining the property as a whole.
Of the total train mileage in America more than half is freight; in Great Britain much more than half is passenger.
It was not till more than half a century later that an American, Sylvester Marsh, employed the rack system for the purpose of enabling trains to surmount steep slopes on the Mount Washington railway, where the maximum gradient was nearly 1 in 22.
Thus a gradient of I in 200 is the same as a half per cent.
East Falkland is almost bisected by two deep fjords, Choiseul and Brenton Sounds, which leave the northern and southern portions connected only by an isthmus a mile and a half wide.
Trade is carried on almost entirely with the United Kingdom; the approximate annual value of exports is £120,000, and of imports a little more than half that sum.
Waiting for professional business, he was content to act as court crier for two dollars and a half a day; but he soon gave indications of his talent, and his studious habits and attention to his cases rapidly brought him clients.
In this dungeon he languished for two and a half years, and, despite all the efforts of Pope Honorius III.
The latter half of the 8th century, which witnessed a rapid succession of reigns in the northern kingdom accompanied by dismemberment of its territory and final overthrow, witnessed also the humiliating vassalage and religious decline of the kingdom of Judah.
Two years were " loosely defined as the term of his absence," which he exceeded by half a year - returning June 1765.
The five years and a half which intervened between his return from this tour, in June 1765, and the death of his father, in November 1770, seem to have formed the portion of his life which " he passed with the least enjoyment and remembered with the least satisfaction."
We may remark in passing that the retreat was often enlivened, or invaded, by friendly tourists from England, whose " frequent incursions " into Switzerland our recluse seems half to lament as an evil.
A poll tax is required of all males between the ages of 21 and 60 years, one half of which goes to the county in which it is collected and the rest to the state.
Half a century later a party of trappers of the Hudson's Bay Company entered Nevada and plied their trade along the Humboldt river.
The capitals are, in the lower order, the characteristic funnel-shaped rectangular Byzantine capitals, some of them with open work, bearing cushions; this is a type probably derived from the cushion itself, and developed in the East about the second half of the 5th century.
The left wing was composed of the papal contingent, 6000 infantry and 800 gendarmes under Fabrizio Colonna; the centre, of half the Spanish contingent, 4000 infantry and 600 lancers under the viceroy; the right, of 1000 light horse under Pescara.
The southern half of the state, however, slopes eastward and is drained directly into the Atlantic through a number of small rivers, the largest of which are the Irapiranga (whose source is in the state of Bahia and which is called Vasa Barris at its mouth), the Real, and the Cotinguiba.
In the same way as signified a whole inheritance; whence heres ex asse, the heir to the whole estate, heres ex semisse, heir to half the estate.
In the Second Punic War it was again reduced to half this weight, viz.
And lastly, by the Papirian law (89 B.C.) it was further reduced to the diminutive weight of half an ounce.
The town was half burnt down in 1902.
For more than half of his brief life he held a prominent position in the very foremost rank of natural philosophers.
The periodicity shows itself in the form of an exacerbation of the still continuing fever, and that exacerbation may take place twentyfour hours after the first onset, or the interval may be only half that period, or it may be double.
So far, however, only half the problem, and from the practical point of view the less important half, had been solved.
In the tropics "no European house should be located nearer to a native village than half a mile" (Manson), and, since children are almost universally infected, "the presence of young natives in the house should be absolutely interdicted" (Manson).
Imported vases of the second half of the 5th century B.C. prove the existence of trade with Greece at that period; and the town was famous in Aristotle's day for a special breed of fowls.
The total quantity of liquid employed need not in general exceed half a litre if a sufficiently delicate thermometer is available.
In the other half of the monarchy (the so-called Cisleithan) this was not possible, and the authority and influence of the emperor were even increased by the contrast with the weaknesses and failures of the parliamentary system.
Yet he was a great king, the type and to some extent the victim of the confusions of his age - Christian in creed and ambition, but more than half oriental in his household.
The kingdom of Israel lasts exactly half the time.
For the understanding of these great wars between Syria and Israel (which the traditional chronology spreads over eighty years), for the significance of the crushing defeats and inspiring victories, and for the alternations of despair and hope, a careful study of all the records of relations between Israel and the north is at least instructive, and it is important to remember that, although the present historical outlines are scanty and incomplete, some - if not all - of the analogous descriptions in their present form are certainly later than the second half of the 9th century B.C., the period in which these great events fa11.4 13.
Whatever reforms Josiah actually accomplished, the restoration afforded the opportunity of bringing the Deuteronomic teaching into action; though it is more probable that Deuteronomy itself in the main is not much earlier than the second half of the 6th century B.C.'
For three years and a half he held his own and issued coins in the name of Simon, which commemorate the liberation of Jerusalem.
Little more than half a century after the overthrow of the Jewish nationality, the Mishnah was practically completed, and by this code of rabbinic law - and law is here a term which includes the social, moral and religious as well as the ritual and legal phases of human activity - the Jewish people were organized into a community, living more or less autonomously under the Sanhedrin or Synedrium and its officials.
By the law " De Judaeis " passed by the Diet in 1791 the Jews were accorded protection, but half a century passed before their tolerated condition was regularized.
At present more than half of the Dutch Jews are concentrated in Amsterdam, being largely engaged in the diamond and tobacco trades.
In Surinam the Jews were treated as British subjects; in Barbadoes, Jamaica and New York they are found as early as the first half of the 17th century.
The Bruttii first came into collision with the Romans during the war with Pyrrhus, to whom they sent auxiliaries; after his defeat, they submitted, and were deprived of half their territory in the Sila forest, which was declared state property.
It is along the western side of the northern half of the chain that the line of volcanic action is apparent; the islands here (of which some are active volcanoes) are lofty.
The line of volcanic action extends along the western side of the northern half of the chain.
After the Turkish conquest it greatly diminished, but afterwards gradually rose, till it was supposed to have attained to about 260,000, of whom about half were Mahommedans, at the time of the outbreak of the Greek revolution in 1821.
The comparative evidence afforded by the discovery of Egyptian relics shows that the Great Age of the Cretan palaces covers the close of the third and the first half of the second millennium before our era.
This more primitive phase of the indigenous culture, of which several distinct stages are traceable, is known as the Early Minoan, and roughly corresponds with the first half of the third millennium B.C. The succeeding period, to which the first palaces are due and to which the name of Middle Minoan is appropriately given, roughly coincides with the Middle Empire of Egypt.
In the neighbourhood are remains of Coptic buildings, including a subterranean church (discovered 1895) in the desert half a mile beyond the limits of cultivation.
Deposits of the Tertiary period form the basis of more than half the state, extending from the border of the Cretaceous westward nearly to the Yazoo Delta and the Mississippi Bottom, and southward to within a few miles of the Gulf coast.
The normal annual precipitation for Mississippi is about 51 in.; for the southern half, 54 in., and for the northern half, 49 in.
During the first half of the 19th century North Carolina was a mining state of the first importance; in 1804 it was the only state in the United States from which gold was obtained.