twain

• In her last letter to me she says, speaking of my daughter's marriage: I hope thirty years hence the twain will be as much in love with each other as two old codgers of my acquaintance, who go on talking heavenly nonsense to each other after the most approved fashion. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
• We can fancy that the twain were distinctly annoyed upon discovering in one corner of the room, during their vigils, a number of Leadville and Denver newspapers containing sonnets, poems, odes, triolets, and such like, conspicuously marked with blue or red pencil tracings and all aimed, in a poetic sense, at Miss Woppit's virgin heart. —  Second Book of Tales
• But the force of the bound was too great for the strength of the weapon: the handle snapped in twain, and the transfixed jaguar struck down the hermit and fell writhing upon him In the excitement of the moment Barney drew his pistol from his belt and snapped it at the animal. —  Martin Rattler
• Anne Boleyn's fascinating smile split the great Church of Rome in twain, and gave a nation an altered destiny. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
• When the boarding party encountered the twain, the working plasmoid apparently was attempting to perform some operation on the frozen and shriveled brain of one of the human cadavers Balmordan was a scientist of no mean stature among the Devagas. —  Legacy

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms