It appeared that Arsene LaComb had stayed in his little provision store until the last moment Portioning out what was his with even hand, to each one as much as could be carried.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Thus sound was born, and of it rhythm, the planets Portioning it; and from rhythm came music, primordial, mad, yet music, and Stannum heard it as a single tone that never ceased, a tone that jarred the sun with mighty concussions, ruled the moon, and made rise etheric waves upon the rim of the interstellar milky way.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
It was dreadful to see the anxiety with which they watched the Portioning of the thick heavy hunks of black bread.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole