Both Uses of
disperse
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, As the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.†
p. 40..0
- A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg.†
p. 98..3 *
Definition:
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(disperse as in: the crowd dispersed) to scatter or cause to spread