dissever
Example Sentences
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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)
So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon.
From Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Matthews, Brander
We are not, however, entitled, on this account, to dissever his prophecies, and to assign particular discourses to the reign of each of these kings.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Its reign is almost over; its powers to dissever and destroy are now being rapidly eliminated from a Constitution whose basic meaning is justice, equality, and love.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
First it were a great shame, that a little money should dissever us twain, whom Nature hath knit so near together.
From Against War by Erasmus, Desiderius
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