The most important part of the purity of the people of Jehovah was their maintenance of his worship, the strict severance of Israel from the religion of their neighbours and community with them.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
Among the Sinn Fein papers, New Ireland, while faithful to the resolution of the Convention, saw most clearly the reasons which explained the Labour attitude and, while expressing the hope that a severance from the English Unions would eventually occur, pleaded for toleration and for, in the meantime, a free hand for Labour.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
The wish to maintain, in spite of the severance and shock of death, a bond of communion between the living and the departed was one of the most imperious instincts of the Latin race.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill