Conversely, the total absence of a fireplace, potsherds or other remains, and of any sign of a floor, would serve to dispel the assumption that this spot was ever inhabited even for a short time.
No doubt they may, at times, have retreated beyond the reach of daylight and been compelled to dispel the darkness by means of fires; but such instances were rare and of short duration.
The allegation staggers belief, but a reference to the charter will dispel incredulity.
It bespoke better results in time to come, and would dispel that illusion of divided counsels on which the French government had so largely calculated.
Only that you spare To separate us with this horror; that You trust me to dispel his love, to pall And chill his passion from me.
Dispel this circle so that we may be rid of our fear.
By worshipping ourselves we may now dispel the dawning knowledge of our insufficiency.
However, madame, I count upon it that you will be able to dispel such doubts as I am fostering.
One way or the other she must at oncedispel this torturing doubt.
But scarce had they arrived at it when Monsieur de Garnache's crisp voice came swiftly to dispel it.
A pulpit, supported on a pillar fixed in the wall, was revealed by the light of five or six stone lamps, which seemed to intensify rather than to dispel the gloom beyond.
Vainly he had racked his brain for some method of atonement which would dispelthe ever present fear of being barred from his seat in the Heaven of the Blessed, which would assure him immunity from the lake of everlasting fire.
When life looks lone and dreary What light can dispel the gloom?
Though firmly believing that a description will dispel the charm lingering around those beautiful rooms, I cannot resist the inclination to give one.
Mrs. Noel d'Oyly lent an air of opulence to the box, being one of those lovely but all too ample women who, while compelling admiration, dispel intimacy.
He was too proud and sensitive to go to Joan and have it all out with her and thus dispel what had developed into a double misunderstanding, and too loyal to go to Joan's mother and tell his story and beg for help.
Still, Audley was considered to be opulent, and he did not dispel that favourable notion by any imprudent exhibition of parsimony.
It is impossible to say how much these amusements, which some may deem futile, contributed to keep up the spirits of the troops, and to dispel those gloomy ideas which in Africa are often the forerunners of nostalgia and death.
Unhappily, the event did not serve to dispel those suspicions.
The extreme beauty that Nature has bestowed upon you will, by its brightness, dispel the obscurity of your fate and attract vice, as the brightness of gold induces theft.
The fever I feel is one of life; I do not wish to dispel it, or to fly from it, but I am sitting up to enjoy it.
She thought of old Jane Goodman, comforted by the certainty which seemed to the girl so entirely without foundation, that her mere presence would dispel all the trouble that had wrecked a life.
I now consider myself quite re-established; therefore, my good Irving, dispel all your alarms on my account.
We were much amused to observe how the royal word can dispel the gout.
Mrs. Barkamb, the owner of North Cottages, Wildernsea, would no doubt consent to throw some light upon this matter; either to dispel a delusion or to confirm a suspicion.
This visit served at least to dispel the idea which had so often terrified me.
It is an easy gauge to apply, and one which would dispel all the reputation the Athalik Ghazi had secured, if we deny the Chinese the great qualities those who know them best will accord them without hesitation.
It might be caused only by suspicion, and if so, he trusted by his ingenuity to dispel it; but if he had been betrayed, it was important that he should know it.
Let me trust that you will be able to dispelcertain suspicions, and that the frankness of your answers to the questions to be propounded will lighten for you and make less onerous for us the sad duty we are performing.
Had she been a book she could not have been guilty of the folly of wedding with a yeoman of Lincolnshire--ah me, what rude awakenings too often dispel the pleasing dreams of youth!
Legend and history haunt the spot with nothing to distract the mind or dispel its musing melancholy.
Full of life and animation, nothing could quell her spirits, and in most cases she had only to appear to dispel the gloom.
Their presence made the castle far more lively than it had wont to be for many a long year; but all their sallies could not dispel the melancholy which Hilda could not hide even from them.
Not content with this, she sent forth her learned and holy men to spread the light abroad and dispel the thick darkness, to establish seats of learning as focuses whence should radiate the light of truth on a world buried in barbarism.
His soul is aglow with deep human sympathies, and his great purpose in life is to dispel the night.
One need only add that "The Awakening of Spring" has done much todispel the mist enveloping the paramount issue of sex in the education of the child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
