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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
At length, as thro disparting clouds they rise, And hills above them still obstruct the skies, While a dead calm o'er all the region stood?
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
"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 George MacDonald
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 James Holman
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 Thomas Moore
