We know what portions of the brain are devoted to this or that activity.
If our play is physical play, if we are absorbed in a game or bodily contest, then we are exerting and developing all those portions of us which civilization tends to atrophy and deaden.
There are certain outer portions of the body, such as nails and the scales of the skin, which are dead matter, produced by the body and pushed out from it and no longer nourished by the blood.
The roots of the trees go down into the earth, and take up portions of the earth and turn it into tree.
She would sing to him snatches of wild, rapturous songs, and repeat portions of prophecy she had learned from the preachers of those times.
But the old man, after standing face to face with the speaker, had turned his back upon him, and during the latter portions of the attack had moved slowly away.
The door was opened by a bland, intensely shaven man out of livery, who took Somerset's name and politely worded request to be allowed to inspect the architecture of the more public portions of the castle.
The transept and choir have no side aisles, but are portions of an octagon, attached to the base of the dome, giving the whole plan the figure of a cross.
The tube is not at all injured, but some portions of the cast iron lifting frames are broken, and require repairing; some weeks must elapse before a new cylinder is made, and the operation continued.
Drawings and models were meanwhile continually prepared by Filippo for the most minute portions of the building, for the stages or scaffolds for the workmen, and for the machines used in raising the materials.
She encountered difficulties; slices of cold tongue betrayed a remarkable tenacity of fibre, portions of broiled chicken manifested a very embarrassing slipperiness under the silver tines, as she tried to divide them or roll them up.
A common tree in the northern portions of the Lower Peninsula, but rare in the Upper Peninsula.
Confined to the most southern portions of the Lower Peninsula.
The Haws are trees of the pasture-lands, the roadside, the open woods and the stream-banks, and are more common in the southern than in the northern portions of the state.
Indigenous to the northern portions of the state, but often cultivated and occasionally escaping in the southern portion.
It has, however, been submitted to them, and they have given their assent to the other portions of the report.
During the summer vacation he not only read and thoroughly studied the plays, but committed large portions of them to memory.
All foreigners are almost entirely excluded, being only allowed within the populous portions with permission.
He also says, in speaking of them as found in other portions of Mexico: "remove them three leagues and they become perfectly harmless and lose all their venomous qualities.
They had entered the cavern and seized upon the portions of venison left there, although the rifle escaped their notice, and then they had begun the vain pursuit.
It refreshed him greatly, and putting other choice portions in his knapsack he started back on a wide curve, leaving the smoldering coals to arouse the curiosity of any one who might see them.
It is mostly on religious matters, and contains a great number of Lives of Saints, Hymns, Sermons, portions of the Scriptures, and other such pieces.
A favourite occupation was copying portions of the Holy Scriptures, nearly always in the Latin language; and in this good work some monks spent nearly all their time, in order to multiply copies of the sacred books.
At one time the circular ring was complete, but of late years some portions of it have been levelled or removed.
Some of the greatest saints of the ancient Irish Church employed themselves in copying the Gospels and otherportions of the Bible, whenever they could get the opportunity, as we shall see in the case of St. Columkille.
Portions of the beginning and end of this poem are here given:-- I.
He called attention to the fact that the Government was allowing portions of the national workshops at Woolwich Arsenal to remain idle while it was giving work that could be done in them to outside contractors.
While in the blacksmith's shop he learnt many portions of Shakespeare, with a decided preference for Hamlet.
In the Museum of the Acropolis there are also some fragments of Dipylon vases, on which are clearly visible portions of biremes.
The rowers on each side sat in the same vertical longitudinal plane, and consequently the length of the inboard portions of the oars varied according as the curve of the vessel's side approached or receded from this vertical plane.
Similar regulations were put in force for the beam pieces, knees, and other portions of the ships.
The planes of these tiers would intersect the inboard portions of many of the tiers of oars, and consequently prevent these latter from being fitted at all.
The dotted lines show the portions of the carving which are at present missing.
The Tuileries and the Hôtel de Ville were consumed, as were also portions of the Louvre, the Palais Royal, and the Palais de Luxembourg, and the city in many places defaced and devastated.
He wore a jacket of green velvet (an expensive article), lustrously gemmed with gold buttons; and those portions of his dress for which our language has no proper appellation were richly meandered with superior lace.
In its reply, The Journal asked him whether, in testing his urine he had used portions of twenty-four hour specimens or merely individual specimens.
This is the most complete of the inscriptions of this king, and was found in two portions in the tombs marked B 18 and B 19.
From first to last, apparently, the individual scribe was at liberty to omit suchportions as he chose, and even to modify somewhat the exact form of expression in making a copy of the sacred book.
Professor Maspero discovered among the hills of Thebes an important tomb of the eleventh dynasty, which threw light upon obscureportions of Egyptian history, and contained texts of the "Book of the Dead.
May I ask what portions have the ill-luck to deserve your condemnation?
As the coteries make the sets, and monopolise the choicest portions of the floor, when the room is crowded and everybody determined to dance, the unlucky wight, without acquaintances, finds himself sadly overlooked.
Algonkin migrations were from the northeasterly portions of the American continent, toward the west and south.
Delaware traditions distinctly recalled the period when portions of the Cherokees were on the Ohio, and recounted long wars with them.
Barca is in the northeastern part of Africa: the southern and eastern portions of the country are a barren desert.
Already they have attained a force in the more civilized portions of the globe sufficient to be felt by all governments, even the most absolute and despotic.
My ammunition was distributed in portions through the whole luggage, so that, if an accident should befall one part, we could still have others to fall back upon.
My men were of opinion that it was only the want of knowledge of the southern country which prevented an exodus of all the lower portions of Londa population thither.
The portions only three hundred yards wide are very deep, and contain large volumes of flowing water in narrow compass, which, when spread over the much larger surface at the rapids, must be shallow.
I offered portions to them too, but these were declined, though they are excessively fond of a little animal food to eat with their vegetable diet.
It is the same old story, justifying a monstrous wrong on pretense of taking care of those degraded portions of humanity which can not take care of themselves; doing evil that good may come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
