disparting

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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

Its effect upon the already tottering Whig party was like that of "the Voice," in the ruins of Rome, "disparting towers."

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas

At length, as thro disparting clouds they rise, And hills above them still obstruct the skies, While a dead calm o'er all the region stood?

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

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

Gallant before the wind she goes, her prow High bearing and disparting the blue tide That foams and flashes in its rage below.

From A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 by Holman, James