"Portion out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by this post the article in the Victorian Institute with respect to frogs' spawn. If you remember in your boyhood having ever tried to take a small portion out of the water, you will remember that it is most difficult. I believe all the birds in the world might alight every day on the spawn of batrachians, and never transport a single ovum. With respect to the young of molluscs, undoubtedly if the bird to which ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... see you now," insisted Westlake. "I've—I've got to decide on some things right this morning. I—I've got to know how to portion out my investments." ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... wisdom had its reward. If he did not carry the banners of the Commonwealth in triumph to distant capitals, if he did not adorn Whitehall with the spoils of the Stadthouse and the Louvre, if he did not portion out Flanders and Germany into principalities for his kinsmen and his generals, he did not, on the other hand, see his country overrun by the armies of nations which his ambition had provoked. He did not drag out the last years of his life an exile and a prisoner, in an unhealthy climate and under ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own ...
— Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
