dissever
Example Sentences
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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
Of course there would be marriage, but of deliberate choice, and after a long and purely platonic friendship, in which all the horrid little failings that do most to dissever could be recognized and weighed.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon.
From Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Matthews, Brander
He then corded it so firmly that it would require both industry and patience to dissever the several knots and twistings.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.
To dissever them without injury to the written spaces was by no means easy.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 2
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 1
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