Experimentation and ratiocination at the best are apt to disassociate individual realities from their complex setting and then proceed to palm them off as illustrations of life, when in truth they are lifeless, artificially preserved specimens.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Like all the line of these half-barbaric, picturesque dukes, Charles could not disassociate himself from magnificence, which in those days took the place of comfort.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
He slammed the great iron door behind him as if he were glad, too, to disassociate himself from King and all foolishness.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy