part with

• “Thus we may understand the sharp saying of Karl Marx, that the English clergy would rather part with thirty-eight of their thirty-nine articles than with one thirty-ninth of their income.”

  The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation

• “During this brief colloquy, Eliza had been taking her leave of her kind friend, Rachel, and was handed into the carriage by Simeon, and, creeping into the back part with her boy, sat down among the buffaloskins.”

  Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly

• “Daniel Mendelsohn, Frank Rich, Dexter Filkins, Richard Bernstein, Ben Skinner, and George Packer also played their invaluable part with suggestions for making the book better.”

  Simon & Schuster: Enemies of the People

• “This led to some final pleasantries, in which, as it seemed to Lily, Mrs. Dorset bore her part with astounding bravery, and at the close of which Lord Hubert, from half way down the side-ladder, called back, with an air of numbering heads: “And of course we may count on Dorset too?””

  Simon & Schuster: The House of Mirth

• “The water within the harbor was much smoother than on the open lake and the relief from the motion produced by the tossing waves speedily restored Fred so that when at last the yacht was anchored and the Black Growler was safely drawn into the boat house he was ready to take his part with his companions in the events that speedily followed.”

  The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat

• ““The whole progress of this affair except the first Tumult has been conducted on their part with a consistency, firmness and a degree of Policy mixed with candor,” he wrote, “that must astonish every theorist on the nature of the American soldiery; and cover Sir Harry Clinton with Shame and Confusion.””

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “Spare was sorry to part with the cuckoo, little as he had of its company, but he gave it a slice which would have broken Scrub's heart in former times, it was so thick and large.”

  Good Stories for Great Holidays

• “If they should propose to modify it, so as to render it unobjectionable, I think this would not be effected without such a modification as would amount almost to annihilation; for such would it be to part with it's inheritability, it's organization, & it's assemblies.”

  Letters

• “These remains can be grouped together as the "Neandertal race", which had a long, narrow, low skull with very retreating forehead, enormous brown ridges (torus supraorbitalis), powerful masticating apparatus, upper jaw with the fossae caninae, heavy under jaw with broad ascending branch, no chin, and chin part with an outward convex curve.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “An expert “hitchman” can fix this problem in part with subtle adjustments to the hitch.”

  Simon & Schuster: The RVer’s Bible

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