He had Halved the distance, when down she went beneath him; and he swam, waded, stood ashore, the first man who had ever won there living by way of the sea.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
But feeling, perhaps, that having withheld from his fellow-traveller all confidence as to his own name and attributes, he had no right to ask any confidence from that gentleman not voluntarily made to him, he courteously said "that he wished the way were longer, since it would be so pleasantly Halved," and strode forth at a brisk pace.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Two barrels have been Halved and turn coyly from each other as a settee.
"The Admirable Crichton"
J. M. Barrie