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Such a proceeding, she says, could have "apportioned blame in large, small and medium slices according to a single measure."

From Time Magazine Archive

They seemed to have apportioned the country into different districts, each troop having its allotted range.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

The latter had defied the custom which would have apportioned her to a married man, and had come in to supper on the arm of young Zesslinger.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

I thought that it would be all right to do it quietly, and therefore I have apportioned as many as possible to the royal crown.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

I have apportioned the largest trees among the higher officers.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir