dissolvent
Example Sentences
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The organism of both tongues may be destroyed, but the dissolvent force is also an organic and vital one, and from the ruins of both constructs a speech of grander plans and with wider views.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food.
From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry
That dissolvent, which stimulates and pricks the stomach, does, by that very uneasiness, prepare for it a very lively pleasure, when its craving is satisfied by the aliments.
From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry
The Italian kingdom is the fruit of the alliance between the strong monarchical principles of Piedmont and the dissolvent forces of revolution.
From The Liberation of Italy by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
