But, my Anselmo, loth I am to say, I must estrange that friendship.

Nay, then let heav'ns in sorrow end my days, And fatal fortune never cease to frown: And heav'n and earth, and all conspire to pull me down, If black oblivion seize upon my heart, Once to estrange my thoughts from Lelia's love.

" Then, after a moment's silence, I added, feeling I should estrange her confidence altogether if I blundered any more and treated her like a child "I think, perhaps, the true explanation is that you pity him for loving you, and at the same time you feel the repulsion of the healthy, vigorous animal for what is weak and timid.

V. be inimical &c adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice &c 907; fall out; take umbrage &c 900; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.

excite hatred, provoke hatred &c n.; be hateful &c adj.; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify &c 830; roil.

In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things for a few moments, that the most ordinary objects and events appear quite new and unfamiliar.

What hope of salvation could she ever expect from that manthe man who long ago had sought to estrange her from her father so that he might work his own ends?

Again, a large endowment of intellect tends to estrange the man who has it from other people and their doings; for the more a man has in himself, the less he will be able to find in them; and the hundred things in which they take delight, he will think shallow and insipid.

A single word has been known to estrange lifelong comrades; a single evening beside a camp-fire has changed foes to partners.

His love dooth not estrange me from my selfe, But doth confirme my strength with multitudes Of benefits his love will yeelde to me.

When they arrived in the West Indies their circumstances would increase this hostility, alienate their affections and estrange them wholly from the United States.

Yet this thy recompense,that thou dost keep Thy friend and lover safe from every change; For, loyal to thy love, he fell asleep, And life it is, not death, that can estrange.

You have heard my empire's knell, Yet no hostile world's decree Can estrange your hearts from me; Exiled to a tiny isle, Through your tears you well may smile At the realm my foes bestow, Elba ... after Fontainebleau!

An incident which happened in 1875 helped to estrange Germany from Russia.

I could not forego the claims of early friendship, and estrange myself from those who have endeared themselves to me by long years of carenor pass coldly and unrecognizingly by playmates and acquaintances, because their complexions were a few shades darker than my own.

Only officials remained about her, "the other of the council and nobility estrange themselves by all occasions.

Congeniality of feeling, habits, views, style and rankidentity of country and colorthese powerful influences bias the magistrate toward the master, at the same time that the absence of them all, estrange and even repel him from the apprentice.

" "Such a profession of faith, developed in such a manner, does not estrange me," replied Wilhelm; "it agrees with all that one learns here and there in life, only that the very thing unites you, that severs the others.

I could not apply to the Court against the ingenious forms of petty insult employed, while I felt that they must inevitably estrange the children from me if practised always in their presence.

My Lord, A Frenchman who, after a shipwreck without parallel, has been fraternally assisted by foreigners whom national interests seemed calculated to estrange from him, is eager to give utterance to the sentiments of gratitude with which he is filled.

His preceptor, Fleury, Bishop of Frejus, who had just refused the Archbishopric of Rheims, seeing that he must make up his mind to please the Regent or estrange him, supported what had just been said.

They were totally different in their views, desires, inclinations, and aspirations; and their children, instead of being a means of reuniting, seemed to estrange them the more, for each insisted on considering them his or her exclusive property, and in having them educated according to his or her views and wishes.

Nay, this Humour of shortning our Language had once run so far, that some of our celebrated Authors, among whom we may reckon Sir Roger E Estrange in particular, began to prune their Words of all superfluous Letters, as they termed them, in order to adjust the Spelling to the Pronunciation; which would have confounded all our Etymologies, and have quite destroyed our Tongue.

Estrange thyself not from thy people, Sire.

The King said he had, but if he made it known he would get no thanks for it and might estrange his best friend.