dissever

Example Sentences

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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

Of course there would be marriage, but of deliberate choice, and after a long and purely platonic friendship, in which all the horrid little failings that do most to dissever could be recognized and weighed.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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

But all her childish reasoning could not dissever the two.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.

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.