"Disengage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he to Pepe, "how at every effort that we made to break a branch or disengage a block of wood, the island trembled to ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid
... when traction is made. It may be best to close the safety pin with the safety-pin closer, as illustrated in Fig. 37. For this purpose Arrowsmith's closer is excellent. In other cases it may prove best to disengage the point of the pin and to bring the pointed shaft into the esophagoscope with the Tucker forceps and withdraw the pin, forceps, and esophagoscope, with the keeper and its shaft sliding alongside the tube. The rounded end of the keeper lying outside the tube allows it to slip along the esophageal ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
... she was about to disengage herself from my arm, but I clasped her tender, soft figure in a still closer embrace; my cheek almost touched hers, from which ...
— A Hero of Our Time • M. Y. Lermontov
... contrive some means by your answers to Lord Elmwood to pacify him, without involving me in ruin. Hint at my affections being engaged, but not to whom; and add, that I have given my word, if he will allow me a short time, a year or two only, I will, during that period, try to disengage them, and use all my power to render myself worthy of the union for which ...
— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald
... his existence. This twofold direction of the mind towards God is called Religion, a word derived from the Latin religare, for, as a moral being endowed with intelligence and freedom, man feels always a certain tendency to disengage himself from the physical order of terrestrial things, and to link himself again to the Supreme Cause ...
— A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth • Isaac Samuele Reggio
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