Literary notes about unite (AI summary)
Literary authors deploy “unite” in diverse ways, using it to denote both the literal joining of separate parts and the metaphorical merging of forces, ideas, or hearts. In some works, the term describes the physical coming together of elements—as when bodily structures or substances fuse into one cohesive form [1, 2, 3]—while in other contexts it rallies individuals or groups, inspiring collective action and solidarity [4, 5, 6]. Philosophical and relational writings also invoke “unite” to express the blending of qualities or the harmonizing of opposites, suggesting that divergent virtues or emotional bonds can be integrated into a superior whole [7, 8, 9, 10]. Whether uniting armies for battle, intertwining the limbs of nature, or fusing disparate ideas into a unified vision, the word serves as a potent emblem of connection and transformation throughout literature [11, 12, 13].
- In the first year the two osseous halves of the arches unite; but it is much later—in the second to the eighth year— [ 298 ] Fig.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - The carbon and hydrogen unite with the oxygen of [Pg 393] the air.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - The median line of the body is marked as the situation where the opposite halves unite and constitute a perfect symmetrical figure.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery - If this is so, the sooner you unite with this army the better.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - If the two nations, under one king, can unite for their common safety, they may rush on the Barbarians with invincible arms.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - He thought it advisable, therefore, that they should unite for their defence.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson - Moreover, when a man first makes up to her she naturally shrinks from him, even though she may be willing to unite herself with him.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana - Thus the first ties which unite him to his species are already formed.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - We have seen how Philo attempted to unite Hebrew righteousness and Greek beauty, and to harmonize Moses and Plato.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis - The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - If they disapprove of our resolutions, if they disapprove of anything that is said on this platform, let them oppose if they can not unite with us.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison