621 examples of dispel in sentences

Dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter.

The latter had taken upon herself the care of the evening meal; but, before we could meet there, my own observation had suggested an alarm I dared not communicate to herone which a wider experience than hers could neither verify nor dispel.

Besides this a certain amount of light managed to come through that small window of the lodge, and help to partially dispel the gloom without.

With the dawn of day, Rustem arose, and wandering took his way, Armed for the chase, where sloping to the sky, Túrán's lone wilds in sullen grandeur lie; There, to dispel his melancholy mood, He urged his matchless steed through glen and wood.

The legions of Túrán, with dread surprise, Saw o'er the plain successive myriads rise; And showed them to Sohráb; he, mounting high The fort, surveyed them with a fearless eye; To Húmán, who, with withering terror pale, Had marked their progress through the distant vale, He pointed out the sight, and ardent said: "Dispel these woe-fraught broodings from thy head, I wage the war, Afrásiyáb!

For surely, my lords, it is an endeavour no less laudable to dispel terrour, than to excite it; and he who brings us such accounts as we desire to receive, is generally listened to with indulgence, however unelegant may be his expressions, or however irregular his narration.

I see a cloud on your faceI suspect some hidden sorrow, and being your best friend, I am ready to give my life to dispel that cloud.

'Nay,' said I, 'they are rather increased; since, though I have heard many things worthy of marvel, I have seen nothing of what you promised to shew me to dispel them.'

" "Bah, bah, bah!" exclaimed the lawyer, drawing circles in the air with his hand to dispel the ideas suggested.

THE intellectual and social movement which was to dispel the darkness of the Middle Ages and prepare the way for those who would ultimately deliver reason from her prison, began in Italy in the thirteenth century.

And to see him then, with his face and beard thickly crusted over with a mess of dry plaster and paint, did I think somewhat dispel those fanciful illusions which our Moll had fosteredshe, doubtless, expecting to find him in a very graceful attitude and beautiful to look at, creating a picture as if by inchantment.

"The way that any man would take, seeking to dispel a useless sorrow," answers the wise woman; "the way to London.

However, after moping an hour in her chamber, she comes to me in her hood, and begs I will take her a walk to dispel her vapours.

It is not pleasant in general to dispel the illusions of romance, though Dante's will bear the operation with less hurt to a reader's feelings than most; and I suspect, that if nine out of ten of all the implied conclusions of other narratives in his poem could be compared with the facts, he would be found to be one of the greatest of romancers in a new and not very desirable sense, however excusable he may have been in his party-prejudice.

The sages and diviners were consulted, but their answers were darker than the ignorance they were asked to dispel.

We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our Constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control.

It is common for those who have never accustomed themselves to the labour of inquiry, nor invigorated their confidence by conquests over difficulty, to sleep in the gloomy quiescence of astonishment, without any effort to animate inquiry, or dispel obscurity.

He reproduces and refines the romance which Dr. Palfrey would dispel.

There appears to have been some difficulty in the assignment of parts, and it is easy to imagine that at first the players exercised their prerogative of growlinga prerogative not calculated to dispel the doubts fast assailing Addison as to the outcome of the performance.

In the Christmas vacation Gladys should give a party which would forever dispel any doubts about the soundness of their financial standing.

But I am sure you will find that the truth will (even so little as we may be able to find out) grow on you, make you free, light your path, and dispel, at no distant time, your painful difficulties and doubts.

I wondered at the sensation, for it was entirely new to me; but in vain I tried to dispel it.

Now that the holy men have completed their rites, and have no more need of my services, how shall I dispel my melancholy?

Love lit the flame, and Love himself allays My burning fever, as when gathering clouds Rise o'er the earth in summer's dazzling noon, And grateful showers dispel the morning heat.

Could the pale Dawn dispel the shades of night, Did not the god of day, whose diadem Is jewelled with a thousand beams of light, Place him in front of his effulgent car? MÁTALI.

621 examples of  dispel  in sentences