Use separation in a sentence
Sentences starting with separation
- Separation from her grandfather was the greatest evil she could dread; and feeling for the time as though, go where they would, they were to be hunted down, and could never be safe but in hiding, her heart failed her, and her courage drooped. [12]
Sentences ending with separation
- He really was with us but twenty-five years, for he did not go with us to Europe, but he never regarded that as separation. [5]
- Time passes swiftly when thoughts are cheerful, or are only tinged with the soft melancholy of a brief separation. [11]
- It was a very painful separation. [5]
- I even wished to delude myself now into believing that what she suggested was in reality not a separation. [9]
- But respect for the Queen has prevented the brother and sister from greeting each other after so long a separation. [10]
- It was in the dark hour before daybreak that Iberville and Perrot met for their first talk after the long separation. [11]
- She had reflected that, if Orion had really returned the widow's passion, he could not have borne so long a separation. [10]
- Tachot is so tender, that she could scarcely endure the fatigues of the journey and the pain of separation. [10]
- And I was sometimes at a loss whether to be grateful to Maude or troubled because she had as yet given him no hint of our separation. [9]
- You complain of our separation. [2]
Sentences containing separation two or more times
- The complete separation from my only son was telling on me severely, and I could not forget that you were the cause of that separation. [9]
More example sentences with the word separation in them
- Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect on you. [2]
- In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. [7]
- Chrysilla was acquainted with life, and knew that Eros never mingles more arbitrarily in the intercourse of a young couple than when, after a long separation, there is anything whatever to forgive. [10]
- The low words which the artist exchanged with the woman whose love, even during the period of separation, would shed light and warmth upon his darkened life, were deeply impressed upon the souls of both. [10]
- Danger and separation were now passed, and they rejoiced in the happiness of meeting, yet could not feel genuine joy. [10]
- We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this Capital. [7]
- I did not understand what he said, and only pointed southward and in spirit wished him victory and that this separation might tend to the welfare of our love. [10]
- Mr. Flint had told him, that very morning, of her separation from Jethro, and of the reasons which people believed had caused it. [9]
- He looked forward to any definite separation (as marriage) with apprehension. [11]
- True to themselves, they will not ask where a line of separation shall be, but will vow rather that there shall be no such line. [7]
- Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? [7]
- The evening before their separation, he described with sparkling vivacity, the charms of the Ligurian coast, and spoke of the future as if he were sure of entire recovery and a long life. [10]
- Other questions had their opposing partisans in all localities of the country and in almost every family, so that no division of the Union could follow such without a separation of friends to quite as great an extent as that of opponents. [7]
- In separation from their fellows, they could not be trained. [4]
- It is like the uniform to the soldier or the veil to the nun--a sign of separation and devotion. [4]
- The final separation, the spectacle of his pale corpse, gave me more acute bitter pain than I could have imagined. [14]
- But why was the separation desired? [4]
- It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world for all future time. [7]
- Had she been the man and he the woman, she could never have written so smoothly of "fate," and "profession," nor told of this separation with so complaisant a sorrow. [11]
- As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. [2]
- We cannot think that this young man is doomed to perpetual separation from the society of womanhood during the period of its bloom and attraction. [6]
- If the utilitarian spirit is abroad, it accounts for the devotion to the production of wealth, and to the consequent separation of classes and the discontent, and it accounts also for the demand that all education shall be immediately useful. [4]
- A little separation sometimes will fan it into a flame. [4]
- A scholar must shape his own shell, secrete it one might almost say, for secretion is only separation, you know, of certain elements derived from the materials of the world about us. [6]
- After cycles of separation, Puritan and Cavalier united on this clay-bank in the Louisiana Purchase, and swept westward together--like the struggle of two great rivers when they meet the waters for a while were dangerous. [9]
- After their permanent separation, although repeatedly shewing milk in her teats, she would never acknowledge the courtship of any other dog, and to the regret of her owner never bore puppies. [1]
- Boiled down, the sentiment was one against the rule of a hereditary aristocracy, and our forefathers had it long before the separation took place. [9]
- He was a seminary student, he was ordained, he was taking his vows before the bishop, he was a robust and consecrated priest performing his first service, shining, it seemed to him, before the congregation in the purity of his separation from the world. [4]
- So the years passed till Easter (1852) came, and with it our confirmation and my separation from Ludo, who was to follow a different career. [10]
- Even before the outbreak of the war he had devoted himself zealously to her, and he now plainly showed that during the long period of separation his feelings had by no means cooled. [10]
- From a window opening upon a balcony overhead came the clear notes of a barytone voice enunciating the oldfashioned words of an English ballad, the refrain of which expressed hopeless separation. [4]
- It seemed almost no time at all before she was at the station again, clinging to Aunt Mary: but now the separation was not so hard, and she had Edith and Mary for company, and George, a dignified and responsible sophomore at Harvard. [9]
- I speedily lost my susceptible heart to a charming young lady named Leontine, who permitted me to be her Knight, and I fancied myself very unjustly treated when, soon after our separation, I received her betrothal cards. [10]
- And we the more readily pardon it, because of the inability we have to understand English conditions, and the English dialect, which has more and more diverged from the language as it was at the time of the separation. [4]
- He represented the medium, the link between Maude and me that no estrangement, no separation could break. [9]
- Between the old man and herself there had come a gradual separation, harder to bear than any former sorrow. [12]
- It was the loneliness of a new and great separation. [11]
- Fran Gertrude had lighted her way, and a long separation might be borne for such a meeting. [10]
- Maude's were the letters of a friend, and I found it easy to convince myself that their tone was genuine, that the separation had brought contentment to her; and those independent and self-sufficient elements in her character I admired now rather than deplored. [9]
- I had long known that the company was to remove from Kottbus to Guben, but I hoped that the separation would be followed by a speedy meeting. [10]
- It was a joy to think of seeing them again--Agne, too, and little Papias--and she felt as though she were about to meet them after years of separation. [10]
- Did he mean it to divert her from the pain of the separation, to give her something to hope for? [11]
- On the way home to Schweinau the magistrate and his wife talked together as eagerly as if they had just met after a long separation. [10]
- After Biberli and his sweetheart had assured themselves that the ardour of their love had by no means cooled, they sat down on some bags filled with cloves and related to each other the experiences through which they had passed during the period of separation. [10]
- It flashed upon him now that always his letters had been entirely of his own doings; he had pictured himself always: his own loneliness, his own grief at separation. [11]
- She still occupied her easy chair, looking so serene, so reliant there was no opening for grief as yet, though all knew the separation was at hand. [14]
- The King Hophra, hearing of her beauty and talent, sent for her to Memphis, and offered to buy her of Charaxus, but the latter had already long, though secretly, given Rhodopis her freedom, and loved her far too well to allow of a separation. [10]
- The misfortune must have produced a deep and lasting effect upon the artist's joyous nature, for his whole bearing was pervaded by such earnestness and dignity that years, instead of months, seemed to have elapsed since their separation. [10]
- Incompatibility of temper has been considered ground for a divorce; incompatibility of interests is a sufficient warrant for social separation. [6]
- You understand how hard this separation is for all of us. [4]
- Well, as Gaston had said, they were to meet in the Mediterranean in September; meanwhile a brief separation would be good for both. [11]
- The two adventurers had come together after years of separation, and Sir Duke had urged Pierre to fare away with him to Hudson's Bay, which he had never seen, although he had shares in the great Company, left him by his uncle the admiral. [11]
- Julie wrote in French: Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is separation! [2]
- It is, in fact, the only case for separation. [9]
- But should I ever have had the courage to propose a separation? [9]
- Such separation, if ever effected at all, must be effected by colonization; and no political party, as such, is now doing anything directly for colonization. [7]
- Great changes will doubtless be made in the tenure and transfer of land, and these changes will react upon England to the ultimate abasement of the landed aristocracy; but this equalization of conditions would work no consent to separation. [4]
- She drew a distinct line of separation between the Church's authority over her as a subject member, and the matter of her mission. [5]
- In all his discipline, in his consecration, in his vows of separation from the world, there seemed to have been no shield prepared for this. [4]
- But this was different, for separation from Barbara must, at any rate, destroy the exquisite late happiness of the newly unfolded enjoyment of life, and for this heavy loss he saw no compensation. [10]
- The splendid costume did not suit such a meeting after a long separation, so solemn a festal hour of the heart. [10]
- The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have conferred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. [7]
- A sorrowful smile curled his lips as he recalled the agreement which they had made just before a separation. [10]
- But what she could not bear was the separation in spirit, the wrenching apart of sympathy, the loss of her heart, and the thought of her going farther and farther away into that world whose cynical and materialistic view of life made her shudder. [4]
- This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured; and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before. [7]
- This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before. [7]
- I was struck by another thought; in spite of our separation, in spite of her marriage and mine, she was still nearer to me--far nearer--than any other being. [9]
- His departure would bring to her separation from his servant, and sometimes when homesickness tortured her she thought she would be unable to survive the parting. [10]
- He intended to break up the headquarters on the day after to-morrow, so another separation awaited the valet and his wife. [10]
- Natasha, who had borne the first period of separation from her betrothed lightly and even cheerfully, now grew more agitated and impatient every day. [2]
- Yet the meeting between all these beloved ones after a long separation partook more of sorrow than of joy. [10]
- Natasha would have been completely happy if the thought of the separation awaiting her and drawing near had not terrified her, just as the mere thought of it made him turn pale and cold. [2]
- But this shall be our last separation. [2]
- The differences may be due to physical organization, but the structural divergence is but a faint type of deeper separation in mental and spiritual constitution. [4]
- Sonya was unhappy at the separation from Nicholas and still more so on account of the hostile tone the countess could not help adopting toward her. [2]
- She held that anger was the least injurious of all grounds for separation. [11]
- A short time ago Hermon would have declared it impossible that he could ever become so happy during this period of conflict and separation from the object of his love. [10]
- If his Majesty's affection diminished the success of his work, the separation from so dear a being, who afforded him so much pleasure, would do this to a far greater degree. [10]
- In all its adaptations and aptitudes it demands union and abhors separation. [7]
- And if, after a sensible separation, you became satisfied as to her character and development, and your son still wished to marry her, you should have withdrawn your objections. [9]
- There was still a marked separation between the Dutch and the English residents, though the Irvings seem to have been on terms of intimacy with the best of both nationalities. [4]
- We lived in a grand way now, and had our separate establishments and separate plans, and I used to think that a real separation couldn't make matters much different. [4]
- There was quite a flutter in the cottage, as there always is when those who know each other well meet under new circumstances after a short separation. [4]
- The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. [7]
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