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  • Had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature it is probable that lady would not have been there, but her intense and fervid soul would not allow her to be absent on an occasion in which she was so terribly interested.†  (source)
  • I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.†  (source)
  • Farmer Oak had one-and-a-half Christian characteristics too many to succeed with Bathsheba: his humility, and a superfluous moiety of honesty.†  (source)
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  • Scarcely had I dropped my head back into its original position, when there flashed upon my mind what I cannot better describe than as the unformed half of that idea of deliverance to which I have previously alluded, and of which a moiety only floated indeterminately through my brain when I raised food to my burning lips.†  (source)
  • give them no quarter unless they surrender;" and struck a furious blow upward with his sabre, that would have divided the steward into moieties by subjecting him to the process of decapitation, but for the fortunate interference of the muzzle of the swivel.†  (source)
  • [*] * "Money and sanctity, Each in a moiety  (source)
  • Half the sum my present necessities compel me to accept; of the remaining half, distribute one moiety among yourselves, sir squires, and divide the other half betwixt the heralds and the pursuivants, and minstrels, and attendants.†  (source)
  • Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.†  (source)
  • His eyes opened at last to the young man's power, godly from godly lineage, the king detained him, offered him his daughter, gave him, too, a moiety of royal privileges, and Lykians for their part set aside their finest land for him, vineyard and plowland, fertile for wheatfields.†  (source)
  • Ishmael might have spared his lungs more than a moiety of the effort they were compelled to make in order that he should be heard.†  (source)
  • Here, then, was the prospect of an alarming rivalry, which bade fair to strip him of at least a moiety of the just rewards of all his labours, privations, and dangers.†  (source)
  • If I had possessed but a moiety of your heavenly resignation, Miss Temple, all might yet have been well.†  (source)
  • Had there been rotary levers for two of the members, a moiety of the fatigue would have been saved, for one item—†  (source)
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