He might sever her from her friends in the Forest, but he would not thereby attach her to friends and kinsfolk in the north.
Life is continuous, so we say, but here and there events happen that mark off its parts so sharply as almost to sever them.
It can snap andsever limbs, or trunk, or head, sheer and certainly as though its jaws were a guillotine.
He was glad that France would give back Hanover to England, because that would sever the Franco-Prussian union and make the Court of Berlin dependent on Russia.
Napoleon cherished no such illusion: but he certainly hoped to surprise the British and Prussian forces in Belgium, and to sever at one blow an alliance which he judged to be ill cemented.
The idea of withdrawing one wing in order to tempt the foe unduly to prolong his line on that side, and then to crush it at the centre, or sever it from the centre, is common both to Castiglione and Austerlitz.
First he set himself to the sever practice of the text; he spent many hours and days of toil in struggling to fashion the serried columns of black letter, writing and rewriting till he could shape the massive character with firm true hand.
Accordingly, the Chinese were willing to take the advice of America, and proceeded to severdiplomatic relations with Germany in March 1917.
The qualities of Nestor, Ulysses, and Achilles combined in one mortal could scarcely have availed to untie or sever that knot.
Her chief aim was to sever the Anglo-French Entente, and she failed.
To severthe legs from the body of the chicken, first cut through the skin underneath each leg where it is attached to the body, as in Fig.
To sever the wings from the body, cut through the skin where the wing is attached, as in Fig.
The city will judge to-morrow which of the two parties was compelled to sever a bond sacred in the sight of God and men.
He forced himself to sever the bonds in which sleep held him, and awoke completely.
Strong as were the ties which united father and son, I decided to sever them, and succeeded in escaping in company with two others.
If he could find ways and means to sever himself from that, he might live on here in peace.
This, however, did not end their troubles, and he longed to be free from his obligations, and to sever all connection with her.
Madame de Berny, more than twenty years his senior, felt that they should sever their close connection and remain as friends only.
She had the kind of pertinacity that sever admits being out of depth, the happy buoyancy that does not require to feel the bottom under one's feet.
But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter.
The international Protestant plan was to drive its blows in on either side of Lorraine and thus sever the chain through central Europe by which Philip II held his dominions together, and to separate the two houses of Hapsburg.
Adelaide felt unmitigated disgust at the barbarity which could sever a loving mother from her infants.
Provided only with a file, the carpenter set himself to sever the stout iron bars.
If she refuse, then I mus' sever one of her pretty fingers.
So I have yielded to him, and he is about, I think, to sever my head from my body.
Come, tell me now, how do you call this doomed magician, and how does one get to him to sever his wicked head from his foul body?
It is in this attempt to sever the love of humanity from its Author, that the Positivist philosophy has failed: it is the worship of a husk without the kernel, of a body without the soul; and hence it will never satisfy the human aspiration.
From the trunk sever The Head of Bran, That which never Has bent to man!
That which never To men has bowed Shall live ever To shame the shroud: Shall live ever To face the foe; Sever it, sever, And with one blow.
