Sentence examples for in twain from inspiring English sources

They misjudged the lance's heft, and it splintered in twain.

All these folk, as in Twain, have at least a streak of cartoon vitality.

BALTIMORE — The Democracy was rent in twain to-day [June 25] at the first session of the National Convention.

Can it be that the opposition to the reigning Republicans is deeply cleft in twain, as mouth-fillingly described above?

I guess you could say Mark Twain did, but even in Twain there's a kind of an unreachable, shy something.

The Hound has done his part to keep the population down, cleaving folk in twain with grim efficiency.

Eight times a week he clefts himself in twain for the delectation of largely female audiences who love him just for his selves.

You can feel in Twain that when he went toward that darkness he was, in some ways, going against his own early grain.

Most actresses would take a speech to convey what she puts into the single line: "Oh Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain".

Clanton, "with upraised gleaming sabre, arrests the fatal blow by cleaving the confident antagonist's head in twain, and half raising it for another stroke, a pistol shot sends the noble lad, too, reeling from his saddle dangerously wounded".

(Ms. Eason has given him a few not-in-Twain lines about how his family was run off the land, as if to soften his wrongdoing).