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moiety
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    I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.  (source)
    moiety = portion or share
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    He saw himself sitting at his table in Bray the morning after the discussion at the Christmas dinner table, trying to write a poem about Parnell on the back of one of his father's second moiety notices.  (source)
    moiety = the second half-payment notice (for taxes in the UK)
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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)
    moiety = portion or streak
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    Farmer Oak had one-and-a-half Christian characteristics too many to succeed with Bathsheba: his humility, and a superfluous moiety of honesty.  (source)
    moiety = share
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    A devise of his whole estate to certain responsible trustees followed; to hold the same for the benefit, in equal moieties, of his daughter, on one part, and of Oliver Effingham, formerly a major in the army of Great Britain, and of his son Ed ward Effingham, and of his son Edward Oliver Effingham, or to the survivor of them, and the descendants of such survivor, forever, on the other part.†  (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)
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    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)
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    If I had possessed but a moiety of your heavenly resignation, Miss Temple, all might yet have been well.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    The trust was to endure until 1810, when, if no person appeared, or could be found, after sufficient notice, to claim the moiety so devised, then a certain sum, calculating the principal and interest of his debt to Colonel Effingham, was to be paid to the heirs-at-law of the Effingham family, and the bulk of his estate was to be conveyed in fee to his daughter, or her heirs.†  (source)
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    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)
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