rend asunder
Example Sentences
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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 Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
The 1, 8, 4, 12 is to rend asunder.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 by Dodge, Mary Mapes
In this way does the language of the many rend asunder the just and honourable.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
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.
For when Napoleon bade farewell to his trusty soldiers, it was in these words: "Be faithful to the new sovereign of France; do not rend asunder our beloved and long-suffering land."
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
