For dawn takes away a third part of your work, dawn advances a man on his journey and advances him in his work,--dawn which appears and sets many men on their road, and puts yokes on many oxen.
It is notorious, that, when the grants were made, the pensions would not purchase more than a third part of as much wheat as they will now.
So that, perhaps, a third part or more of the crop is due to the transplanting.
Even the wheat here has been only a two-third part crop.
And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite.
Further, in using river or sea-sand, the addition of a third part composed of burnt brick, pounded up and sifted, will make your mortar of a better composition to use.
It is in vain to hope for plenty, when a third part of the harvest must be reserved for seed.
Defn: A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.
Law) Defn: A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part.
Five decades make a chaplet, a third part of the rosary.
Only a third part to be paid during the first year, and to be gradually increased till it reaches the maximum in the fourth.
The Portuguese had not yet recovered from the effects of the earthquake which, in 1756, had reduced a third part of Lisbon to a ruinous heap.
He anchors on a third part of New Holland, and digs wells, but brackish.
He slaughtered a third part of the males, laid waste a third part of the land, and sent a third part of the women and children to the NajAishA- as slaves.
They ate and drank and sat talking, till a third part of the night was past, when the host spread his guest a bed and went up to his harem.
Harrison, a canon of Windsor, says that a third part of the people did taste the general sickness.
It was contrary with the hot-baths, which were augmented by a third part.
At its worst, as in Glasgow, it took about a third part of the lives under the age of five, and perhaps a sixth part of the lives at all ages.
At least a third part of the Spirits, thou Shalt sweep with thee, when thou shalt join our side.
Indeed, a third part of the Heavens embrace Our side, if not the half; for Michael's tide.
The Fesse is a band athwart the shield, filling, according to the rules of the heraldic writers, a third part of it.
They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.
According to the heraldry books the chief should be marked off as a third part of the shield, but its depth varies, being broader when charged with devices and narrower when, itself uncharged, it surmounts a charged field.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "third part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
