Example Sentences

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Don't suppose that I am splitting my head and half breaking my heart over this miserable Chancery suit for my own rights and interests alone. 

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles

Father still dutifully submissive at home—Abroad, I am splitting a straw in arguments with Susannah about straw bonnets—The rest of the Chapter contains coquetry, courting, and costumes.

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick