disparting
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Its effect upon the already tottering Whig party was like that of "the Voice," in the ruins of Rome, "disparting towers."
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore
The storm arose: with loud and sudden shock The vessel sunk, disparting on a rock.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan
Such harmony from the contention flows, That the divided ear no preference knows: Betwixt them both disparting Music's State, While one exceeds in number, one in weight.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
Johnson cites with approval a sentence in "The Ruins of Rome": "At dead of night, The hermit oft, midst his orisons, hears Aghast the voice of Time disparting towers."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Gallant before the wind she goes, her prow High bearing and disparting the blue tide That foams and flashes in its rage below.
From A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 by James Holman
