disparting

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"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

The storm arose: with loud and sudden shock The vessel sunk, disparting on a rock.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

The drooping boughs disparting, forth he sped, And then drew in his steed, to ask the path, Like a lost traveller in an alien land.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

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