| 1. | For dissolution wrought by Sin, that firs. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | When this worlds dissolution shall be ripe. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | There came to him a presentiment of his early dissolution death. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 4. | Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | heat as butter a man of continual dissolution and thaw. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | a chemical phrase, signifying the dissolution of quicksilver in acid. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | This delicious indulgence lasted until the dissolution of the convent, and you know the rest.. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 8. | Had I not seen the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole over it just ere the final dissolution came, as realization that the soul had been won, I could not have gone further with my butchery. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities divisions in state. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |