dissever

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And neither the artists in circles above, Or critics who view the débris, 52Can ever dissever the Nude from the Stairs, For both are so hobble-de-gee, So hobble-de-wobble-de-gee!

From The Re-echo Club by Wells, Carolyn

The flesh does not conjoin, but dissever; although through its very severance it suggests a shadow of the union which it cannot bestow.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Mistress Hutchinson thus helped to dissever Church and State, and to found religious freedom in the United States.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Like a white dove, the soul hovered for a moment above this body, of which the exhausted materials were about to dissever.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

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