"Unsevered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... role, a pretense, taken on for his sake? Could it be—and the sudden thought stung him to the quick—that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
... part. The tough hide was half cut through, and its severed portion curled upwards and downwards like the upper and lower lips of an angry dog, whilst that which was unsevered stretched out slowly, slowly, till it grew quite thin. Then it snapped, so that the rope flew upwards and struck me across the face like the lash ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard |
