dissever
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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
Secrecy and guilt go so perpetually together, that it is almost difficult for the mind to dissever them.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Friends of my youth I shall love you for ever— Closer and firmer ye twine round my heart; Though now the wide sea our lot may dissever, Affection and friendship can never depart.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
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