Moiety

Tom divided the cake and Becky ate with good appetite, while Tom nibbled at his moiety.

“Money and sanctity, Each in a moiety.” Elisabeth de Rossan, Marquise de Ganges, was one of the famous women of the court of Louis XIV where she was known as “La Belle Provençale.” She was the widow of the Marquis de Castellane when she married de Ganges, and having the misfortune to excite the enmity of her new brothers-in-law, was forced by them to take poison; and they finished her off with pistol and dagger.

She admired: a natural phenomenon having been explained by him not for her she expressed the immediate desire to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.

In 1708, those duties were all (except the old subsidy of tonnage and poundage, of which one moiety only was made a part of this fund, and a duty upon the importation of Scotch linen, which had been taken off by the articles of union) still further continued, as a fund for new loans, to the first of August, 1714, and were called the fourth general mortgage or fund.1574 The sum borrowed upon it was £925,176 9s.