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Example sentences for "dispelling"

Lexicographically close words:
dispayre; dispel; dispelled; dispeller; dispelleth; dispels; dispence; dispend; dispensa; dispensable
  1. Still, however, with a serene countenance, dispelling their threats, he firmly and truly protested, that he feared nothing less.

  2. In consequence, he abstained from the chase before dinner, dispelling the uneasiness of his unregulated mind by serious business.

  3. Then the divine Self existent, indiscernible but making discernible all this, the great elements and the rest, appeared with irresistible power, dispelling the darkness.

  4. Moreover, if it were true that knowledge arises through the dispelling of the imagination of plurality, the rise of knowledge would really never be brought about.

  5. Illumining power does not only mean the dispelling of what is antagonistic to it, but also the defining of things, i.

  6. The remaining Pâdas of the first Adhyâya therefore apply themselves to the task of dispelling this notion and proving that what the texts in question aim at is to set forth certain glorious qualities of Brahman.

  7. It is upon this disconformity that the Sokratic cross-examination is brought to bear, making his hearers feel its existence, for the first time, and dispelling their fancy of supposed knowledge as well as of supposed unanimity.

  8. Bewildered with the delicious conclusion of this illustration of still life, I turned homeward, dispelling the mirage.

  9. In Devonshire, however, there was a more mystic use for rosemary in dispelling the charms of witches.

  10. The dispelling of the charm was just the natural physical action of the herb.

  11. Why had he come into her life, bringing such joy to her lonely heart, and then dispelling it all in one brief hour?

  12. As the cheerless morning wore on, I sat after breakfast gloomily smoking, trying to verify my first impression that Sybil had been the victim of foul play in the hope of dispelling it.

  13. True; but your testimony, the word of a man of honour, will go a long way toward dispelling whatever absurd notions my husband has got into his head," she urged.

  14. Visions of a nineteenth-century La Valliere or Montespan, hanging fondly on his arm, and dispelling the harassing cares of State by sweet smiles while treading the cool umbrageous glades of the magnificent park, haunted his brain.

  15. Caught at last," said a stentorian voice behind him, and dispelling the dream as its owner laid his hand on the novelist's shoulder, while a gigantic companion planted himself in front of the street door and cut off all retreat that way.

  16. I saw this as plain as a pikestaff, as, with one of her kindest looks, she insisted on my putting on a better happing to screen me from the cold, and on my taking something comfortable inwardly towards the dispelling of bad consequences.

  17. The early morning sun streams warm and rich into the canyon, dispelling the nocturnal chill and making the air delightful beyond expression.

  18. The only reason, therefore, for referring to it here, is with a view to dispelling the illusion.

  19. The early morning mists still hung about, but the sun was brightly busy dispelling them.

  20. The sun was just dispelling the diaphanous mists of early morning, making them hang luminous a moment and then disperse, like tinted gauze that flutters slowly upward in a breeze and vanishes.

  21. Indeed, simpleton as the major was, he had cunning enough for the whole of them, and initiated his diplomatic career by dispelling all their suspicions.

  22. And I will rejoice in thy smiles again, And hap'ly thy whisper hear; Dispelling the gloom of sorrow and pain, When the twilight of death is near.

  23. She was a splendid woman, and had the best faculty of dispelling the blues, dumps and dismals of any person I ever met.

  24. Their main business is to summon or exorcise spirits for the purpose of averting or dispelling sickness, and of procuring favourable winds, a good catch of fish, and so on.

  25. In some cantons of Switzerland children still kindle a need-fire by the friction of wood for the sake of dispelling a mist.

  26. And such enter into this delight of their lust in consequence of their taking away and dispelling heavenly delight in those that are in such delight.

  27. He had no other means of pacifying his wife, and dispelling the phantoms of her fancy, than by relating the whole story of his good fortune.

  28. Indeed, a trip to them is capable of dispelling all fear, O king!

  29. And they recited mantras capable of dispelling Rakshasas and (to that end) also performed rites.

  30. And by dispelling on the field of battle the fears of the affrighted that may beg for their lives, and relieving old men and boys and Brahmanas from terror and anxiety, I will win excellent fame and the highest heaven.

  31. And they recited mantras capable of dispelling Rakshasas and (to that end) also performed rites.

  32. After Kondañña the Leader named Mangala, Dispelling darkness in the world, held aloft the torch of truth.

  33. The hurry and excitement of business had its natural effect in gradually dispelling the marked gloom which had for a time occasionally oppressed him, and in a little while his spirits had entirely resumed their accustomed tone.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.