Then she saw that my wealth would be wasted, so she divided it between me and her, to each one half, a moiety for herself and her daughter, and the rest for myself.
Land andmoiety of dwelling-house in Boston, Cole Lane S.
One moiety of land and two brick tenements in Boston, Fleet St. N.
One moiety of the spoil introduced into the camp of Alboin more wealth than a Barbarian could readily compute.
When the independent dukes agreed that Autharis should ascend the throne of his father, they endowed the regal office with a fair moiety of their respective domains.
Far different was the case of those who inherited the other moiety of the estate called Compton Basett.
The first of these misfortunes was the most embarrassing, and so imperiously demanded a remedy, that the poor Curate at length consented to find it in the sale of his moiety of his paternal acres.
They likewise possessed one moiety of the neighboring city of Tusculum, a strong presumption of their descent from the counts of Tusculum, who in the tenth century were the tyrants of the apostolic see.
No more than one fourth was appropriated to his domain; a clear moietyof the remainder was reserved for Venice; and the other moiety was distributed among the adventures of France and Lombardy.
In the moiety of the adventurers the marquis Boniface might claim the most liberal reward; and, besides the Isle of Crete, his exclusion from the throne was compensated by the royal title and the provinces beyond the Hellespont.
In case of her decease without issue, the moiety of the kingdom recognized as his by the partition treaty with Spain was to revert to him.
He admits reasonable grounds for doubt to which moiety of the kingdom the Basilicate and Principalities should be assigned.
His Holiness further released him from the obligation of his marriage treaty, by which the moiety of Naples was to revert to the French crown, in case of Germaine's dying without issue.
Donnelan's Lecture;" and "That one moiety of the interest of the said 1200l.
Lecturer as soon as he shall have delivered the whole number [six] of the lectures; and the other moiety as soon as he shall have published four of the said Lectures.
The moiety of the Belton estate might probably be worth twenty-five thousand pounds, and the addition of such a sum as that to his existing means would make all the difference in the world as to the expediency of his marriage.
Clara, he could see now, would have led him a devil of a life; and even had she come to him possessed of a moiety of the property a supposition as to which he had very strong doubts still she might have been dear at the money.
Nor did the new arrangement, under which the landlord paid one moiety of the rate, and the occupier the other, pass without censure.
For a share in the purchase of Garrick's moiety of the patent of Drury Lane.
It was in 1778, after the purchase of the other moiety of this property, that Sheridan set on its boards 'The Critic.
The fame of 'The School for Scandal' was a substantial one for Richard Brinsley, and in the following year he extended his speculation by buying the other moiety of Drury Lane.
But I do dimly discern in the latter moiety of this mysterious paragraph a reproof of that use of "the extremest weapons of controversy" which is attributed to me.
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.
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.
One thing alone gave him a moiety of comfort; though it was of the slightest.
The second half of the "pone" and the remaining moiety of the pork, soon disappeared between his teeth; after which followed the liquor that had been left in his flask.
Johanna of Strathnaver; his date fixed; by marriage became owner of lands in Strathnaver and of a moiety of earldom of Caith.
Freskin, as stated, was undoubtedly the husband of Johanna of Strathnaver, and became on his marriage owner of her lands there as well as of a moiety of the Caithness earldom lands.
