disparting
Example Sentences
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At length, as thro disparting clouds they rise, And hills above them still obstruct the skies, While a dead calm o'er all the region stood?
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
Gallant before the wind she goes, her prow High bearing and disparting the blue tide That foams and flashes in its rage below.
From A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 by James Holman
He saw these mountains ope their watery stores, Floods quit their caves and seek the distant shores; Wilcl thro disparting plains their waves expand, And lave the banks where future towns must stand.
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
The storm arose: with loud and sudden shock The vessel sunk, disparting on a rock.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan
The drooping boughs disparting, forth he sped, And then drew in his steed, to ask the path, Like a lost traveller in an alien land.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
