In Florence the nobles first split up, then the nobles and the people, lastly the people and the multitude; and it often happened that when one of these parties got the upper hand, it divided into two camps.
In course of time the plebeians acquired wealth, and the nobles split into parties among themselves.
The splints, when being splitare made to curl slightly at the edges, causing the fibre to assume a roundness.
It was plait called “Patent Dunstable” made of these split straws that gave this plaitting area its first textile claim to distinction.
There are, of course, many others in actual use, one not yet mentioned which, although plaitted in the same way as ordinary flat head 7 end braid, is made with single strands of split straw.
Split” was formed of seven single split straws, presenting the varied appearance mentioned above, and was naturally the lightest of British fine plaits.
Split” was the chosen plait, and for several years enamelled split bonnets were a most fashionable feature.
They are generally, although some are of split fibres, made of a whole natural raffia-like grass which is indigenous.
In spite of all these precautions, we found in actual fight that the wires were charged with a very strong current; some of our men were killed instantly by the shock, others had their limbs split like brushes of bamboo.
Shattered bones, torn flesh, flowing blood, were mingled with broken swords and split rifles.
There was a sort of rude door, made of boards split from the larger trunks of the yucca, and hung with strong straps of parfleche, or thick buffalo leather.
The other two, ignorant of whence the shot had come, continued their onset on the Waco chief, who, dashing close up, split the skull of one of there with his tomahawk.
A few years ago the city of Perugia was split into the two factions of the Baglioni and the Oddi, the former holding the government, the latter being in exile.
When you wish to use it, turn out and put lady-fingers split in halves all around it.
Then cut stale cake into strips, or split lady-fingers into halves, and spread with jam.
If the new party could substantiate the charges that both old parties were the tools of monopoly and Wall Street, it might insert the wedge which would eventually split the "solid South.
Political parties were split on sectional lines: Western Republicans and Democrats alike were largely in favor of free silver, but their Eastern associates as generally took the other side.
The camp was a small cluster of rough shacks, built of logs, splitboards and shakes.
Spain was at this time in an excited state, andsplit up into parties.
The small states and municipalities, into which the country was split up at this time, were too jealous of their liberty to permit the clergy to exert any influence over their domestic concerns.
The Jews of Europe had no knowledge of the split in Judaism in the East, of the struggle between the Exilarchate and the Gaonate, or of the rivalry of the heads of the schools.
The third missile split into fragments on the rim of the head.
Everyone seemed to be talking at once, and the crowd of boys split up into two factions.
Joe heard, and the thought came to him that possibly there might be a split in the ranks of the lads--a school divided against itself, and on his account.
During growth it undergoes a succession of moults, making its exit from the old integument through a wide split running round the edge of the carapace.
It has been split up into a number of local races.
The "bloater" as distinct from the "kipper" is a herring cured whole without being split open.
On oxidation, the molecule is split at the carbonyl group and a mixture of acids is obtained.
The patrolman followed suit, but although the panels strained and split the heavy door held.
Before I could wink she had it out; it has an ivory hilt, and you could split a silk thread with it.
They have pot roast with potato pfannkuchen on Tuesdays, and we can split an order between us.
If you let him get away with it now an' then, he'll split even with you.
When, however, the butterfly is ready to emerge, the shell of the chrysalis is split along the thorax and at the lower edge of the wing-cases, and the insect is then able to release itself from the pupal trappings.
So far we have been dealing with what may be called block stone, but there were also in many parts of the country stones that from the ease with which they could be split into thin slabs were suitable for roofing purposes.
The Collyweston stone after being exposed to the influence of frost could easily be split into thin slabs,[253] and seem to have been used for roofing purposes as early as the times of the Romans.
Whether or no there be in man a faith to remove mountains, there is in him (and it may come to the same thing) a fire to split them, and anon to clothe the bare rock with tendrils and soft-scented blooms.
He's down below under protection of the soldiers," announced Miss Whiteaway; "and no harm done but his hat lost and his gown split up the back.
I cannot tell whether the lightning struck and split it, or whether, already blasted by the explosion, it had stood upright for those few seconds until a heave of the swell snapped the charred stays and released it.
There began flying through the air entire treetops, trunks split in two, great chunks of earth with the vegetation still clinging, a rain of dirt that obscured the heavens.
Desnoyers was enveloped in a rain of crackling noises, as though the trunks of all the trees had split before his eyes.
