rend asunder
Example Sentences
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ATHENIAN: In this discordant and inconsistent fashion does the language of the many rend asunder the honourable and just.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
Looking fiercely up with a madman's impulse to struggle with and rend asunder his opponent, he found himself powerless beneath a calm, stern eye which possessed the mysterious property of quelling frenzy at its height.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I love it too well; I want the severing hand of trial to rend asunder the thousand evil passions which connect me with it.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
I then desired to pierce the distant haze, and to rend asunder the mysterious curtain that hung across the horizon.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
The first and foremost is the bond of family relationship, which is not an efficient unity, for how often it happens that disagreement and divergence rend asunder this close tie of association.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
