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
Just before this attack, Hooker had decided to interpose more force between the wings of the rebel army, in order to permanently dissever Jackson from the main body.
From Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Doubleday, Abner
You can dissever none of these facts one from the other, and we now approach the “one man principle.”
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various
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
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.
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