dissever

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To open the mind to unreserved communication, is imbecility; to cover it with a vail, to dissever its internal workings from its external manifestations, is dissimulation and falsehood.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

We are not, however, entitled, on this account, to dissever his prophecies, and to assign particular discourses to the reign of each of these kings.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

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 Balzac, Honor? de

Yet it is grievous to think, that in some instances a difference, which extended no further than to the outward polity of the Church, could dissever and almost alienate those whom grace had made one.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown