dissever

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This is not the type of anecdote which looms large in the volumes of "minced saints" prepared for pious readers, and its absence has accustomed us to dissever humour from sanctity.

From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

The flesh does not conjoin, but dissever; although through its very severance it suggests a shadow of the union which it cannot bestow.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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

But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn