disuniting

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The vast emptiness which surrounds the universe, was not filled with things seen, with sun or moon or stars; it stretched boundless, penetrating everywhere, disuniting everything, body from body, particle from particle.

From Best Russian Short Stories by Seltzer, Thomas

Valancourt yielded to these remonstrances, and her affecting entreaties drew from him a promise, that, however Montoni might persist in his design of disuniting them, he would not seek to redress his wrongs by violence.

From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe, Ann Ward

Bonaparte's design of disuniting Austria from England and treating separately with the emperor was foiled; he could not reject the emperor's proposal, for France was eager for peace.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

But the barbarity of my fate soon saved her the task of disuniting us.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John

Some links of the catenations of motions may be left out without disuniting the chain.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus