dissoluble

Example Sentences

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But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Gandharvas, after whom it is named, are singers and other musicians in Indra's heaven, who, like the apsaras, enter into unions that are not intended to be enduring, but are dissoluble at will.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

Awhile, because you are gifted with agility and strength, you fancy that you live: but frail is the "bower of flesh" that encaskets life; dissoluble the silver cord than binds you to it.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

But—perhaps, some day, marriage would be dissoluble at the will of either party to it.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

Behold the sad future in store for us—to minister to the wants of a fluctuating and dissoluble body!

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette