"For who could blame or who could praise If one should choose to pass his days In a phantasy of dreams, And, finding thus his own ideal In things Dissevered from the real, Be happier than he seems?
"A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems"
A. B. S. Tennyson
The Empress Irene, who reigned at first with her son Constantine and afterward alone, marks the later limit of the Roman, as distinguished from the strictly Byzantine Empire, since during her reign, at the beginning of the ninth century, the Empire of the West was completely Dissevered from all connection with Constantinople through the crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor of the West by Pope Leo.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll
The keen prow cuts right through planking and stout oak frame, and the Dissevered portions of the hull are tossed to starboard and to port, to sink before the white foam has faded from the wake of the destroying monster.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot