778 collocations for separates

Between Shelter Island and the longest or southern prong of the fork, are the waters which compose the haven of Sag Harbour, an estuary of some extent; while a narrow but deep arm of the sea separates this island from the northern prong, that terminates at Oyster Pond.

It was partly done by separating man and wife, and putting a number of men in one room, and of women in another.

They made it hot for him, but still the Leader seemed to be doing pretty well for himself, when the old Ingalik (whom the Boy had sent a child to summon) hobbled up with a raw-hide whip, and laid it on with a practised hand, separating the combatants, kicking them impartially all round, and speaking injurious words.

Toward evening, I crossed the divide separating the Mono waters from those of the Tuolumne, and entered the glacier basin that now holds the fountain snows of the stream that forms the upper Tuolumne cascades.

Break the eggs; separate the whites from the yolks, and beat them separately.

It is passed through a series of fine sieves, which separate the coarser parts, leaving behind fine white flour,the "fine firsts" of the corn-dealer.

'It is not distance in miles that separates people but distance in feeling.'

And what wonder is there, says Syrianus, if we should separate things which are so much distant from each other?

What greater madness can be conceived than to deprive our minds of all true content here, and to separate our souls from eternal bliss hereafter; to gall our consciences now with sore remorse, and to engage ourselves for ever in remediless miseries?

"Emulation, that devil-shadow of aspiration," so often used as a stimulus in education, must forever separate the child from his fellows.

Fine openly timbered valleys, well suited for pasture, alternated with ridges of scrub of brigalow acacia till we reached Mount Playfair, a basaltic hill on the sandstone ridge which separates the Warrego Valley from that of the Nive, a small branch of which was followed down to its junction with the main channel in latitude 25 degrees 6 minutes.

This traverse separates Green Bay from Lake Michigan.

Where he was now, he could see the fence that separated the front garden from the road, and he was not more than ten or twelve feet from the front door on his left.

If we but separate the idea under consideration from the sign that stands for it, our knowledge goes equally on in the discovery of real truth and certainty, whatever sounds we make use of.

This subject, indeed, is so closely entwined with popular superstitions, that it is difficult to separate truth from falsehood.

A valley deeper than it was wide separated the two armies.

What was this irresistible force, strong enough to separate the two friends and drag them back five thousand miles for the purpose of killing each other?

Margaret did not hear what Lady Maud said to the American, but it was evidently not yet a warning, for her smile did not falter, and he looked pleased as he came back with her, and they passed near the piano to go out through the open window upon the broad flagged terrace that separated the house from the flower-beds.

She had felt an undefined dread of something much more hard to bearof something which might possibly separate her husband from her: but banishment with him was only a change of home, and, let their lot be cast where it might, she could be happy.

"If you do," I answered, in all seriousness, "you will begin by separating mother and son, and end by making both their lives miserable, and bringing the last misery into your own.

When the lobster is boiled, rub it over with a little salad-oil, which wipe off again; separate the body from the tail, break off the great claws, and crack them at the joints, without injuring the meat; split the tail in halves, and arrange all neatly in a dish, with the body upright in the middle, and garnish with parsley.

There are in that whitish tract which separates the countries on the southern shores of the Mediterranean from the rest of Africa, thousands of human beings at this moment toiling over that dreary ocean of sand, to whom a draught of fresh water would be a blessing, and the simplest meal a luxury.

On the other hand, you must bear it in mind that your punctuation will not be transmitted, and that the recipient must be absolutely safeguarded against reading together words meant to be separated or separating words meant to be read together.

If it be granted, that, in effect, this way does more mischiefthat a man is secretly wounded, and, though he be not sensible himself, yet the malicious world will find it out for him, yet, there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place.

Quantities of rice are grown here, and a singular method is adopted for separating the grain from the ear.

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