dissever
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“The handkerchief is parted now, Ye have parted us for good and ever, But whilst with life our breasts shall glow Our love ye shall dissever never.”
From Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad by George Henry Borrow
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 Honor? de Balzac
But the check is for a time—the gap and chasm does not dissever.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church
First it were a great shame, that a little money should dissever us twain, whom Nature hath knit so near together.
From Against War by Desiderius Erasmus
Its reign is almost over; its powers to dissever and destroy are now being rapidly eliminated from a Constitution whose basic meaning is justice, equality, and love.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
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