dissever

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For though he was the enemy of my race and my country, yet I loved him with such a love that nothing could dissever my heart from him.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Tynan, Katharine

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

Secrecy and guilt go so perpetually together, that it is almost difficult for the mind to dissever them.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Still shall the valour, love, and truth, That shone on Scotland's early youth, From Scotland ne'er dissever; The Shamrock, Rose, and Thistle stern Shall wave around her Wallace cairn, And bless the brave for ever!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

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