He did not at all refer to what had taken place at Richmond, or allude in any way to the nature of the cause which had produced this sudden Disrupture.
"The Bertrams"
Anthony Trollope
In his fourth volume the story of the Oxford Tractarians is related at some length, and he remarks on the singular coincidence, that almost simultaneously with the secession of the English High Churchmen the Free Church was established by Disrupture from the Established Church in Scotland.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
There had also occurred one of those strange compensations that wait on Death or Disrupture by catastrophe: such as the rude shaking down of an unsettled life, the forcible realization of what were vague speculations, the breaking of old habits and traditions, and the unloosing of half-conscious bonds.
"Susy, A Story of the Plains"
Bret Harte