Many single lines and expressions that have been gathered accidentally, as mere isolated phrases, disjoined from the context in which they originally occurred, bear traces of the ardour with which they were cast into shape.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The highest mental attainments also, when disjoined from moral excellence, tend only, as in the fallen angels, to stimulate their pride, and to aggravate their misery.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
He may effect more, if he may serve among the representatives of that hitherto unrepresented thing-Literature; if he redeem, by an ambition above place and emolument, the character for subservience that court-poets have obtained for letters-if he may prove that speculative knowledge is not disjoined from the practical world, and maintain the dignity of disinterestedness that should belong to learning.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton