Would it help you or not?' 'It might come in nicely after the news about the divorce appears,' answered Mr. Van Torp approvingly.

When he was eighteen he attracted the notice of Sulla, then dictator, who wished him to divorce his wife and take such a one as he should propose,which the young man, at the risk of his life, refused to do.

For a time Madame Récamier seemed dazzled with this splendid proposal, and she even wrote to the old banker, her husband, asking for a divorce from him.

Similar in spirit was the tract in reply to the infidel speech of M. Dupont in the French Convention, in which he would divorce all religion from education.

She would not divorce education from religion.

But I know that my husband will consent to a divorce.

I've got just a small connection amongst the riffraff as a man who can be trusted to collect the necessary evidence in a divorce case, especially if there's a little collusion, or find a few false witnesses to help a thief with an alibi.

I do that in camera, like a disgraceful divorce proceeding.

Ile rather bleed to death then lift a sword In my defence, whose inconsiderate brightnes May fright the Roses from your cheeke and leave The Lillies to lament the rude divorce.

disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^; divorce, part, dispart^, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free &c (liberate)

Whereas his former sura regarding women had been confined to codifying and rendering fairer divorce and property laws, now the personal note sounds strongly, and continues throughout the whole of his later pronouncements, regarding Muslim women.

Zeid, her husband, with that measureless devotion which the Prophet inspired in his followers, offered to divorce her for him.

And he justified the proceedings in Sura 33: "And when Zeid had settled concerning her to divorce her, we married her to thee, that it might not be a crime in the Faithful to marry the wives of their adopted sons, when they have settled the affair concerning them....

When the trance was over, he declared that Ayesha was innocent, and revealed the passage dealing with divorce in Sura 24: "They who defame virtuous women and bring not four witnesses, scourge them with fourscore stripes, and receive ye not their testimony forever, for these are perverse persons....

Colin's wife would come home and she would divorce Colin and he would marry Anne.

" "I suppose," said Queenie, with furious calm, "you want me to divorce him?" "Divorce him?

" "I suppose," said Queenie, with furious calm, "you want me to divorce him?" "Divorce him?

I shall divorce him as soon as the war's over.

As soon as it was over she had begun to rage and consult lawyers and write letters two or three times a week, threatening to drag Anne and Colin through the Divorce Court.

And in the end Queenie left off talking about divorce and contented herself with a judicial separation.

"Yes; tell her, and get her to divorce me, so that I can marry you.

Tell her straight and get her to divorce you.

There is just now as wide a divorce between poetry and the common- sense of all time, as there is between poetry and modern knowledge.

"The priest says, 'Ego conjungo vos'; and you are licensed to snap your fingers at everything that has bound you until that moment, as though the law of your marriage were your divorce from law.

During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money still seemed to her like some mysterious and uncertain stream which occasionally vanished underground but was sure to bubble up again at one's feet.