rend asunder
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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
The 1, 8, 4, 12 is to rend asunder.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 by Mary Mapes Dodge
By-and-bye the land, as if by some magic power, seems to rend asunder, and we find ourselves in a narrow channel, with well-wooded eminences on either hand, clothed with handsome fir trees.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
In this chant it asserted itself still more savagely, for it threatened to strike the waters, and break in pieces the mountains, and to rend asunder the depths of heaven by thunder-bolts.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
It would rend asunder the newly formed ties between us, would call up the old strife, the old bitterness again.
From Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
