half-divided

Updated: May 9, 2025

The Mandalay was then towed out of the swatchway by the Cambria into deep water, and round the Goodwin Sands, with the lifeboat alongside her, into the anchorage of the Downs by the half-divided hawser.

Thomas Stanley Treanor - Heroes of the Goodwin Sands

The felling is begun from the base of the hills, and the trees being cut about half through, are started in sections of about an acre at one fall. This is easily effected by felling some large tree from the top, which, falling upon its half-divided neighbor, carries everything before it like a pack of cards.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

For, not to go only, but to go in thither was nothing else but to will to go, but to will resolutely and thoroughly; not to turn and toss, this way and that, a maimed and half-divided will, struggling, with one part sinking as another rose.

Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - The Confessions of St. Augustine