disparting

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Johnson cites with approval a sentence in "The Ruins of Rome":                     "At dead of night,     The hermit oft, midst his orisons, hears     Aghast the voice of Time disparting towers."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

"You would have me then understand, Mr. Raven," I said, "that you go through my house into another world, heedless of disparting space?"

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

Its effect upon the already tottering Whig party was like that of "the Voice," in the ruins of Rome, "disparting towers."

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas

Gallant before the wind she goes, her prow High bearing and disparting the blue tide That foams and flashes in its rage below.

From A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 by Holman, James

Such harmony from the contention flows, That the divided ear no preference knows: Betwixt them both disparting Music's State, While one exceeds in number, one in weight.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles