dissoluble

Example Sentences

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But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Awhile, because you are gifted with agility and strength, you fancy that you live: but frail is the "bower of flesh" that encaskets life; dissoluble the silver cord than binds you to it.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

I felt how frail, how dissoluble, were the fiery links that bound my feeble spirit to that strong immortal.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

Confarreatio was only dissoluble by diffarreatio, but this was perhaps used only for penal purposes.

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde

It may also have appealed with considerable force to a statesman who regarded all pledges and bonds as being in the last resort dissoluble on grounds of national expediency.

From England under the Tudors by Innes, Arthur D. (Arthur Donald)