dissever

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May thy rich bounties ever To wedded love be shown, And no rude hand dissever Whom thou hast linked in one.

From Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)

To open the mind to unreserved communication, is imbecility; to cover it with a vail, to dissever its internal workings from its external manifestations, is dissimulation and falsehood.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

To dissever them without injury to the written spaces was by no means easy.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

So that when we came to part at the station, it was with a regret for that parting, and a hope that friendships were cemented on our journey, which nothing ever could dissever.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)

But all her childish reasoning could not dissever the two.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.