But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would vouchsafe to accept of one half of all things that have been brought.
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half of the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and one half followed Amri.
Of two or three hundred weight of provisions, which may sometimes be served up at a great festival, one half, perhaps, is thrown to the dunghill, and there is always a great deal wasted and abused.
Upon the rent of rich lands the tythe may sometimes be a tax of no more than one-fifth part, or four shillings in the pound; whereas upon that of poorer lands, it may sometimes be a tax of one half, or of ten shillings in the pound.
If it were a good deal lower, one half of it, perhaps, could not be afforded for interest; and more might be afforded if it were a good deal higher.
A tax, therefore, which amounted to one half, must have been an effectual bar to it.
Now I promise you You have show'd a tender fatherly regard To wish me wed to one half lunatic, A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack, That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
If such false ware is sold, its maker shall forfeit its value, one half to the king and one half to the searchers.
If there were no children, one half went to the spouse and one half went according to will.
A wife of a felon had the dower of one half or her husband's lands and tenements.
Justice of the Peace, one half going to the king and one half to the suer.
Scarcely had Gustavus Adolphus been informed of Pappenheim's departure, when suddenly breaking up his camp at Naumburg, he hastened with his whole force to attack the enemy, now weakened to one half.
The king compelled all the bishop's subjects to swear allegiance to himself; and, in the absence of the lawful sovereign, appointed a regency, one half of whose members were Protestants.
One half of Germany encouraged the rebels, the other inactively awaited the issue; Spanish assistance was still very remote.
As citizens of the United States, we are treated as outlaws in one half of the country, and the national government consents to our destruction.
In all ages, one half of mankind have been slaves.
As citizen of the United States, we are treated as outlaws in one half of the country, and the national government consents to our destruction.
If there are no children, the surviving husband or wife takes all the property, real and personal; if there are children, one half.
If there is no child nor the descendant of a child living, widow has a life interest in one half of the real estate and one half absolutely of the personal estate.
The whole of these thirteen Senators, constituting within a fraction, you see, one half of all the votes in this body for the admission of this immeasurable extent of slave territory, were sent here by free States.
One half of Europe was crushed beneath the Bourbon sceptre, and no conception of political liberty, no hope even of religious toleration, existed among that nation which was America's first ally.
Could he pass through the narrow channels that Stimson had described to him, with a clear sky, one half of his causes of anxiety would be removed.
In the case of the latter van't Hoff had shown that a decrease in temperature by 10 degrees reduces their velocity to one half or less, and the same has been found for the influence of temperature on the velocity of physiological processes.
A Frenchman lays out his whole revenue upon tawdry suits of cloaths, or in furnishing a magnificent repas of fifty or a hundred dishes, one half of which are not eatable nor intended to be eaten.
Experts in ethnology have estimated that from one third to one half of the negroes in the United States show traces of white intermixture.
About 20 per cent of American marriages are childless, and medical authorities state that in one half of these childless marriages the barrenness is due to venereal diseases.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one half" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
