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Dissolves that show young Kane’s abandoned sled getting covered in snow end on wrapping paper that contains a new sled, a Christmas present.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2020

But hardly would they hail the sun whose face Dissolves them deathward.

From Locrine: a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour’s heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form.

From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

Hers to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed; And, when the sunlight fills the hours, Dissolves the crust, displays the flowers.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Held all aquiver,— But now with a shiver The power of the sun Dissolves the laces Of the tender mazes, All is undone.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell