Nor if one man bore Brand upon temples while his fellow wore The aureole, would it task you to decide: But, portioned duly out, the future vied Never with the unparcelled present!
No: it was praise, I portioned thee, Of being good true husband to thy wife!
He could not keep a wife who was hard pressed to fulfil his present obligations; marriage was out of the question until the boys were self-supporting, and the girls either settled in homes of their own, or comfortably portioned off.
Certain portions of the auditorium were portioned off into squares, which did duty for private boxes, and into the nearest of these there now entered a party of ladies and children, in whom he recognised some intimate friends.
We have not portioned out Bengal and the Carnatic into parishes, and scattered Christian rectors, with stipends and glebes, among millions of Pagans and Mahometans.
Have they never walked by those stately mansions, now sinking into decay, and portioned out into lodging rooms, which line the silent streets of the Faubourg St Germain?
The country was portionedout among the captains of the invaders.
The property came eventually to Anselm, a younger brother, who also died childless; and it was eventually portioned out among the females of the family.
Castles were erected throughout the country, which was portioned out among Henry's needy followers; and, for the first time in Ireland, a man was called a rebel if he presumed to consider his house or lands as his own property.
At last the supper was ready, was portioned out, and, as always, tasted delicious.
His chamber was at the end of a vast room, a piece of which had been portioned off, in order to serve as a chapel.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us.
Coleridge accompanied us a little way; we portioned out the contents of our purse before our parting; and, after we had lost sight of him, drove heavily along.
Having arrived at the age of two or three years, the young trees are cut while the bark easily peels off, and the fragments are portioned about twelve or eighteen inches in length, according to the intended size of the paper.
A considerable number of chests filled with arms ready for any emergency were in a portion of the room which was portioned off; and in the other part a variety of arms were arranged in fanciful and elegant devices.
And to tell the truth, as I know from high authority, if she had not been so good never would the king or his council have portioned her with such great wealth, which, surely, she never spared for France and Frenchmen.
How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, are utterly unknown.
Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, and what wars they maintained, are things utterly unknown.
How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, is utterly unknown.
In recent years a project was placed on foot of making a photographic survey of the sky, the work to be portioned out among various nations.
We have seen how, in very early times, men portioned out the great mass of the so-called "fixed stars" into divisions known as constellations.
Roof-space was portioned off to tenants according to the number of their rooms; and up here, for them, life was sometimes really worth the living.
After the stores of blankets in each home had been given, carpets were utilized in their stead and portioned out to the suffering soldiers.
The Kara-Kirghis stock, who have been located since the sixteenth century on Lake Issik-Kul, long ago portioned out the land among the separate families, and determined their limits by natural features of the landscape.
The army was portioned into seven divisions, the first of which was commanded by the Count of Flanders, and the last by the Marquis of Montferrat.
The land around the East Mesa was then portioned out, the Snakes, Horns, Bears, and Eagles each receiving separate lands, and these old allotments are still approximately maintained.
They were followed by such numbers of their countrymen that the allies soon became conquerors, and portioned England among themselves.
His dynasty came to an end, and Bavaria was portioned out among a number of Frank Counts, the people, nevertheless, being allowed to retain their own political institutions.
Nearly all Europe was thus portioned among men of German blood, very few of whom ever again migrated from the soil whereon they were now settled.
A part of this was portioned out among the chief men and the soldiers; a part was set aside as the king's share, and still another part became the common property of the people.
By the same king also spaces round the forum were portioned off for private individuals to build on; porticoes and shops were erected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
