disparting

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Such harmony from the contention flows, That the divided ear no preference knows: Betwixt them both disparting Music's State, While one exceeds in number, one in weight.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

Johnson cites with approval a sentence in "The Ruins of Rome":                     "At dead of night,     The hermit oft, midst his orisons, hears     Aghast the voice of Time disparting towers."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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 Barlow, Joel

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 Gilfillan, George

"You would have me then understand, Mr. Raven," I said, "that you go through my house into another world, heedless of disparting space?"

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George