dissever

Example Sentences

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Secrecy and guilt go so perpetually together, that it is almost difficult for the mind to dissever them.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Death does not dissever love among friends, 161.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James

He then corded it so firmly that it would require both industry and patience to dissever the several knots and twistings.

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

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

Yet it is grievous to think, that in some instances a difference, which extended no further than to the outward polity of the Church, could dissever and almost alienate those whom grace had made one.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown