dissever

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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

Of course there would be marriage, but of deliberate choice, and after a long and purely platonic friendship, in which all the horrid little failings that do most to dissever could be recognized and weighed.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Like a white dove, the soul hovered for a moment above this body, of which the exhausted materials were about to dissever.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

Death does not dissever love among friends, 161.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James

“The handkerchief is parted now,    Ye have parted us for good and ever, But whilst with life our breasts shall glow    Our love ye shall dissever never.”

From Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad by Borrow, George Henry