1 Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.
2 Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.
3 Divide it in halves, give half as the share of labor, the surplus left you will be greater, and the share of labor will be greater too.
4 A young deacon, whose long back showed in two distinct halves through his thin undercassock, met him, and at once going to a little table at the wall read the exhortation.
5 Varenka got up while Masha picked the fungus, breaking it into two white halves.
6 You only go halves, said Laurie consolingly.
7 But you are not merely a businessman, you love good and beautiful things, enjoy them yourself, and let others go halves, as you always did in the old times.
8 Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East.
9 It's no good doing things by halves.
10 He took a potato, drew out his clasp knife, cut the potato into two equal halves on the palm of his hand, sprinkled some salt on it from the rag, and handed it to Pierre.
11 His last superhuman efforts were vain and both halves of the door noiselessly opened.
12 Confiding in you at all, on the faith of the interest you profess for him, I will not do so by halves.
13 It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 14 Here, garcon, bring us two halves of malt whisky, like a good fellow.
15 A division which, in the whale, is much like halving an apple; there is no intermediate remainder.