dissever

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For though he was the enemy of my race and my country, yet I loved him with such a love that nothing could dissever my heart from him.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Tynan, Katharine

You attempt to live your life on one side only, to dissever that which was made for unity, and calamity comes to crush you.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington

Still shall the valour, love, and truth, That shone on Scotland's early youth, From Scotland ne'er dissever; The Shamrock, Rose, and Thistle stern Shall wave around her Wallace cairn, And bless the brave for ever!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

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 Bartlett, John

You can dissever none of these facts one from the other, and we now approach the “one man principle.”

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various