disparting

Why did he palm upon us that outrageous fiction of three kings (like those of Cologne) sitting in full ermine robes, with gold crowns on their heads, all alone in a sort of summer-parlor, where the heat, must have been at 80° in the shade, engaged in disparting Poland?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

He maketh no disparting in love between the blessed Soul of Christ and the least soul that shall be saved.

Revelations of Divine Love 1901

He met his elderly competitor, each standing on the opposite bank of a disparting stream, and after speech had, they agreed that they would wage no more war on one another but would make common cause against Byzantium.

Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

He pointed to a half-open one, with the petals in disparting pointing to junction, and compared it to the famous tiptoe ballet-posture, arms above head and fingers like swallows meeting in air, of an operatic danseuse of the time.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

He pointed to a half-open one, with the petals in disparting pointing to junction, and compared it to the famous tiptoe ballet-posture, arms above head and fingers like swallows meeting in air, of an operatic danseuse of the time.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

He pointed to a half-open one, with the petals in disparting pointing to junction, and compared it to the famous tiptoe ballet-posture, arms above head and fingers like swallows meeting in air, of an operatic danseuse of the time.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

"You would have me then understand, Mr. Raven," I said, "that you go through my house into another world, heedless of disparting space?"

Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

I ought rather to say only that I caught sight of something shadowy from which I received the impression of a slight, stooping man, in a shabby dress-coat reaching almost to his heels, the tails of which, disparting

Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

When, therefore, a great and ancient empire falls into pieces, or when fragments of its power are heard rent asunder, like column after column disparting from some noble edifice, in sad conviction, we feel as if all the cities of men were built on foundations beneath which the earthquake sleeps.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

-- beast, and plant, and the babe, in turn: and that which dieth hath not slipped out of the order of nature, but, remaining therein, hath also its changes there, disparting into those elements of which nature herself, and thou too, art compacted.

Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866