disparting

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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

"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

He saw these mountains ope their watery stores, Floods quit their caves and seek the distant shores; Wilcl thro disparting plains their waves expand, And lave the banks where future towns must stand.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

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

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)