The Bishop went swiftly among them, where already mothers were drawing family groups aside and parcelling out the doles of food.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
It is a strange assumption that a good talker must be a good administrator, and that a strong government can be formed by parcelling out the offices among the leading debaters in the legislative body.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
The count had been so accustomed to a numerous suite of attendants, he did not observe the parcelling out of his temperate meal: one bringing in the fowl, another the bread, his neighbor the solitary plate, and the rest in like order, so solicitous were the male listeners in the kitchen to see this wonderful Russian.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter