Almost in the cradle are we
apportioned with heavy words and worths: "good" and "evil"--so calleth itself this dowry.
(nearly always powdered), her moist eyes, and her expression of continual readiness to pass at once from melancholy to an unnatural rapture of married bliss, Boris could not utter the decisive words, though in imagination he had long regarded himself as the possessor of those Penza and Nizhegorod estates and had
apportioned the use of the income from them.
Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually
apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt --above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod.
Our lots in life are
apportioned by the Almighty according to our human deserts.
And by the light of her burning, old Bashti
apportioned the loot.
The master of the ceremonies
apportioned the sun to them, and stationed them, each on the spot where he was to stand.
Choice of rooms and of seats at the tables
apportioned in the order in which passages are engaged; and no passage considered engaged until ten percent of the passage money is deposited with the treasurer.
All around farms were
apportioned and allotted in proportion to the standing of each individual.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be
apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
The unfortunate delay can be
apportioned between a blundering pilot and an intrusive sandbank.
Thus was the little company divided into two camps, and when the provisions had been
apportioned each immediately set to work to open and distribute food and water.
"It is true that meat be
apportioned me and mine," he said.